found on a walk

wood and clay

I am interested to see what will happen when I burn these.  I was inspired by the Bruder Klause Field Chapel in Germany, designed by Peter Zumthor and built by some of the local farmers.

new material

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I have just started working with clay,  hand building.  Not sure about the glazes, a bit shiny.  I much prefer the unglazed pieces.  At the moment my selection of glazes is limited.     

looking back

my old studio

Liverpool Art Fair

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Into the Woods

Self Portrait While Here

both of these sculptures have been accepted into the Liverpool Art Fair
found wood and gold leaf

http://www.liverpoolartfair.com/visit.php

World of Threads Festival

Here is an image of the piece I did for the De rerum natura (On The Nature of Things) at the World of Threads Festival. Check out the website for more images some really great work in a really beautifully curated show by Gareth Bate. http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artwork_pages/2012/de_rerum_natura_joshua_creek_12.html

gold leaf

gold leaf, found wood  project is coming together

beachcombing

bounty from beach-combing expedition along the shores of Hightown

fall glow

I am going to try and make that glow colour

I Can Hear The Trees Sing

This piece is in the De rerum natura ( On The Nature of Things) at Joshua Creek Heritage Arts Center

 Here is the link to the show

http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/index.html



 artist statement


This piece is rooted in my sensory memory of the landscape I have come to call home: wild tenacious, full of vibrancy, textured and rich in colour. It was these very things that at first terrified me about the Canadian Landscape. Coming from a land of manicured parks and gardens where that  wildness is contained neatly in museum boxes to be viewed from a distance. I have since come to relish the wildness gulping in great breaths of it.

Having decided to take a long visit back to England it is the unrestrained land I find myself missing: witnessing history thru trees, mountains the shape and layer of a river bed.

Looking at Emily Carr with fresh eyes her dripping green hued forests filled with ghosts and spirits: I
find myself longing to breath in the mossy damp earth and feel the moist air on my cheeks.

This piece is my response to this desire to find a grassy knoll to lay my head and to rub my hands into the green carpeted land.

The practice of felt making brings my senses closer to this desire: working with the textures of wool and silk: the physicality of working the fibers into material. Dyeing and shibori enable me to mark the cloth leaving the path I have just traveled.
     

whats on my desk

Happy Birthday

Today is the 60th anniversary of the barcode
This is an image of a dress I made using barcodes from cd's

Tea leaf bundles unwrapped

Feb 10, Yurba Mate, ' Talking Head'

Jan 29, Rooibus,  'Diving Head First' 

Feb 02, Black Tea,  'A Heart of Many Colours'

Feb 10 Yurba Mate, 'Talking Head'
Feb 12, Black Tea, 'Contained Explosion'
Feb 04, Yurba Mate, 'Message Bubbles'
Feb 09, Yurba Mate, 'Dinosaur Magic'

This is a small selection of my tea leaf readings I now have almost a years worth.
I really love the words attached to this project. It's going to be interesting how I put
it all together.