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Jenny Mendes
Jenny Mendes is an artist I came across when I first joined Etsy. I absolutely LOVE her work. In a time when there is so much art being churned out by so many people in every media imaginable (or even...
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Up-cycled and found objects, Pistachio Queen
Today I finally finished making my Pistachio Queen! She is made from stainless steel wire, silver plated wire, enamelled copper wire, a champagne cork, a piece of rusty metal picked up from the side of...
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Simon Carroll retrospective show at the V&A, London.
My dear friend Simon was a super duper artist and ceramicist who died tragically far too young. He’s got a retrospective show coming up at the V&A in London, it will be more than worth while...
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Funky mixed media and wire character workshop – 31st May 2014
Learn to make funky characters out of wire combined with found objects/fabric/your old treasures – whatever you’d like to bring along to incorporate. Come and create your own funky characters from wire...
View ArticleAnother wire & up-cycled objects workshop date
Exciting news – I have another date for a wire workshop, incorporating found and up-cycled objects. This one will be at The Up-cycled Home at Mount Edgcumbe on Saturday 14th June from 10am – 4pm. The...
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My new ‘Flying Eyes Lady’…
I’ve just finished this ‘Flying Eyes Lady’ which I started a few weeks ago and have been working on when I’ve had a free few minutes here and there. She’s made from iron wire, steel wire, a fishing...
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Mixed media and wire workshop pictures
Over Easter this year we had a family of 5 staying with us – the weather turned nasty on the Sunday so what better way to spend the time than to run a wire and mixed media workshop?! We had been to the...
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My creative life!
Well, things have changed rather a lot since my last post way way back in May. My latest creation is a very noisy one, also very waggly and squirmy and is so time consuming that she’s the only creation...
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Time… with wings…
So, time flies when you’re having fun? Fun has certainly been had over the past year… add on exhaustion and a lot of tears (from everyone in our house!) and all that is a recipe for the fastest year in...
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What do YOU do for colour?!
Hello hello, long time no write! I’ve been busy busy busy over the past couple of months spending every spare second I have drawing my first colouring in book! I’m REALLY excited about having it...
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Betsy Walton
Every time I come across an artist whose work really speaks to me and when I do I just want to tell everybody about it! Of course, art is something very personal and not everybody appreciates the same...
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Symbiosis colouring book update…
My colouring book ‘Symbiosis’ is now available to buy from my Etsy shop for £12.50 plus P&P. There are 16 A4 pages printed onto lovely quality smooth white paper. What a fabulous relaxing...
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My studio
Some paper I’ve been printing on using some of my husbands green wood offcuts and a lino cut. Gold and white – a bit Christmassy now but what do you think? I’m ever so excited today as I’m making some...
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My Friday photos
It was nice to see some spring blossom in Totnes on Friday. And I love this graffiti which I think looks a bit like a line having a dance!
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Condensation
Hmm, the photos are not quite how I saw it in real life, but the condensation on the inside of our vintage up-leaky and down-leaky greenhouse (in estate agents terms a lovely conservatory) was looking...
View ArticleKathryn Calder – video for When You See My Blood
I accidentally came across this beautiful video made by artist Luke Ramsey when I was searching for Alexander Calder’s mobiles on the internet.
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Playing with new ideas
I had a fun morning yesterday playing with some new ideas that have been floating about in my head for aaaaaaaages. A long time ago I started collecting the little round offcuts from my husband’s...
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Steve Mason Video
I MISS the Beta Band! I haven’t heard any of Steve Mason’s (Beta Band’s lead singer) solo stuff until just now, and have just watched (most of) this video. I like
View ArticleBecause I haven’t posted this for a while…
Because it’s pretty much impossible to 1) not get addicted 2) make it sound rubbish 3) make you forget about all the things you don’t want to have in your head ? http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/
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New work
It’s been a while since I made any completely new work as I’ve been so time poor for the past few years, but here is some I’ve been working on. Some is available in my shop and some is already sold...
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