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cloudy and cool day one feeling very lucky lying here in my princess bed listening to the bells ringing in the hour to know I’ll wake up here everyday for 4 weeks I get up, I eat, I run, I […]

warm and cloudy after much anticipation j’arrive ! I arrive at the Château de Sacy with my kind husband/chauffer it is midday and H serves us lunch almost immediately on the terrace, which is fronted by a balustrade from a […]

City in the Making started from opening vacant buildings to the wider community and making them affordable. These buildings are crucial to the current economy, they are commodities rather than the speculative real estate that brought about the 2008 financial […]

after my slightly bizarre post last night, this evening i’m starting to feel and its a good feeling.  the view through the window is warm evening sunshine bathing the bricks of the buildings over the road and these are backed […]

Porthole – I am the media – Tuesday 4th July 2017 Croxley – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass

In my last couple of blog posts I have written about how I want to use cross-stitch as a form of contemporary fine art. In the past this has got me in to trouble with cross-stitchers who have misunderstood my […]

I arrived in Rotterdam on Sunday evening and headed straight to the Airbnb in Blijdorp district, a lovely ground floor flat looking out to the park. On Monday I arranged to meet Marc Neelen and Ana Džokić from Stealth Ultd […]

  So far the blog posts about my professional development bursary work have been about the upsides to the project. This time I’ll present a round-up of some of the challenges – project work is often not plain sailing. Filming […]

I started to install yesterday and like all first days it was a process of trial and error, dealing with things forgotten, making do with what one has and capitalising on chance …. I had carefully set aside some paper to project […]

Part of the thinking about using natural pigments in my work is about being consciously aware of where they are from, geographically, how they are formed, placing them in relation to myself and in relation to the visual content of my […]

After visiting an exhibition of paintings using natural pigments (tintas naturales) at the Textile Museum in Oaxaca. Work by Maddalena Forcella and learning the main dyes used are: Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus, Cochinilla in Spanish) for red, Cempasúchil (Tagetes ereta) for […]

Nurturing a seed sown back in Autumn 2014 with La Ceiba Gráfica telling me that one of the reasons they didn’t practise screen printing was that it was too environmentally unfriendly, (along with the printing method not ‘antique’ enough and […]