This is a great activity which creates wonderful memories of babies & children’s footprints at various stages of life – you can go to town and do the whole family, including your pets! We have just done them as a memento of when Isabella started school. Her footprint will be a stepping stone. Toby’s hand […] Read more...
What is it about art?
When did the creativity bug get you? Or are you an onlooker, seeing ‘arty’ people and wondering if the creativity gift has passed you by? Is art elitist, only for those who have the time and money to buy it, learn it and do it? Or is it a universal language of communication, celebration, protest, […] Read more...
Celebrating steps on the creative path
I have made this little blog space for myself as an antidote to rushing and diving headlong into the next thing on the to do list. It is an attempt to momentarily slow down the speedy pace of life that stops us from looking back and celebrating what we have actually achieved because we are […] Read more...
Mummy, I found a rainbow!
The evening sun, pouring into the house, catching glass… “Mummy, I found a rainbow!” A reflection onto the cupboard door in the hallway… Twenty minutes exploring colour and light with my little ones. Light transforming the mundane into something glorious…. So easy to walk past the little rainbows shining into the day… Read more...
A weekend of making
The Greenbelt festival… – made my first ever print at the Greenhaus Art School (a venue at the festival)…using ‘Intaglio’ and ‘Drypoint’ (gosh that sounds clever), with a sheet of acrylic and special etching tools. Loved the process (and the smell of the ink) and love the outcome. Having done this, I now get […] Read more...
Festival weekending
Hi ho, hi ho, its off to Greenbelt we go (tent, food and frying pan packed, wellies and mac at the ready). Have been going to Greenbelt since I was 17…now taking both my children and we are all camping for the first time. Can’t see myself staying up for the late night comedy like […] Read more...
How to be an entrepreneur
This poster has followed me around all my workplaces for the last 10 years and is now on the door of my studio. I bought it in Haight Ashbury, the most wonderfully hippy district of San Francisco, from the Red Victorian Peace Centre where they produce a range of inspirational arts posters (you can order […] Read more...
Carve out your bliss
We were at ‘our’ farm again on Saturday (yes, it now feels like ourfarm, owned by the community of people who are working the soil and loving this patch of land back into abundance). There is a greengage tree, bowing with the heaviness of the most delicious, sweet fruits. There are blackberry bushes with enormous, […] Read more...
Me + Anthropologie = creativity!
I spent a glorious hour in Creative Beadcraft in Soho today looking for just the right gemstone for my teardrop mosaic which currently in progress. I came away with the most beautiful Swarovski crystals (ehm…and quite a bit more). It was a veritable Aladdin’s cave for a magpie like me. Aware that I needed to […] Read more...
Fun, Farms & Crafternoons
Just a few pics of our last few days… Stems of the chard we harvested from our community farm where we go every Saturday to weed, water, pick and picnic! Amazing colours and very delicious, especially made with this recipe for Sicilan chard(being half Sicilian, rather appropriate too!). I love this picture Isabella drew of […] Read more...