Treat

I treated myself to Angie Lewin's beautiful book, Plants and Places.  Well known as a printmaker and owner of St. Judes Gallery, I loved discovering that she also works with collage. The piece above is layers of Japanese papers on a found piece of 1950's formica.  Like me, she collects and uses the patterns from the inside of envelopes.  I recently found a wonderful source of papers here.  Falkiners sell beautiful papers, including some designed by Eric Ravilious, cited by Angie Lewin as an inspiration.

The sun shone!

Polly Dunbar illustration

I hope it was a good weekend.  I really needed the sun to shine and it did.  It was wonderful to be in the garden, getting ready for Spring, the boys playing, chickens having a grub-up and the cats looking non-plussed with it all.  Not the best day to escape to the cinema, but a promise is a promise, and Tangled delivered in all the right, Walt Disney ways.  I know it wasn't me who needed the parental guidance, but that witch really was scary!  I also found a grown up moment to sit with a coffee and read the new Selvedge magazine.  Bliss.

I really enjoyed this interview with Tad Carpenter, especially the images showing design development from drawing to digital artwork.  I'm endlessly fascinated by creative process, from inspiration to realisation.

Design Factory Spring Collection

My products have been featured in the Design Factory Spring Collection.

Whoo whoo!

It's been a busy week!  I've been getting design work ready for my agent's trip to the US next week, curating the Folksy blog (see below), starting some new work for my exhibition next month, AND, working on my new website.  David has worked at record speed to do all the coding in Dreamweaver.  Lots of late nights, but here's the fruit of our labour..... (gallery pages still to be added).

If you need a website to match your blog....or vice versa....get in touch.  David is great at interpreting what you want, can use all the visuals that you create, and charges really favourable rates!

Tree of Life

I was asked to curate this week's Folksy Friday for the Folksy blog.  What fun!  I went into all the corners of Folksy....spent a bit of money along the way.....and came up with these beautiful tree inspired pieces.  I particularly like Artwork by Angie's Family Tree print.

Sold!

On the Breeze HH2010

I've just found out that I've sold this piece at Opus Gallery, Ashbourne.  Just wishing it a fond farewell.  I'm busy working towards my exhibition there in April.  Hopefully more sales to come!

ps.  Great news!  I've sold a small piece at Thoresby Gallery!

Hibernate HH2010

Full House

Yippee!  My workshop on March 13th is now fully booked!  Ten people will be joining me to share my techniques and inspirations.  I'm really looking forward to meeting all of you.

If you'd like to know more about future workshops, send me an email and I'll add you to my mailing list.  Beans Gallery will be having me back in September.  Please register your interest with proprietor Karen.