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Rust & Remembrance Session 5 – Monday 14th Aril, 2025
13th April – Sunday tried out an alternative idea for displaying the participants work but went back to my original idea, deciding it would be best to take in the drilled wooden blocks and green garden sticks so that each […]
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Rust & Remembrance Session 4 – April 7th 2025
7th April Monday – parking was a nightmare but with help from my group who were watching from the Library window I got the car unloaded and a space miraculously appeared. I felt a little dazed and spaced out from […]
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April 6th 2025 -Wrangling With Space and Light
6th April Sunday was spent reacquainting myself with my digital camera and attempting to find useful ways of recording all the interesting details in everyone’s work. I had hoped to take them out to some trees beyond my back fence, […]
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Rust & Remembrance Session 3 – March 31st, 2025
31st Monday March The first part of the session saw a sharing of all the fabric strips, we took time to study the different effects, the backs and fronts, the myriad textures and tones created by the reaction of […]
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Rust and Remembrance – Unwrapping and preparing
30th Sunday in the garden unwrapping and recording the four pieces I had at home, discovered it was really tricky to capture the details effectively. I also spent time creating a maquette for our next making adventure. I needed to […]
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Rust & Remembrance – Preparation and Session 2 – March 22nd / 24th 2025
In Stitches March 22nd Some speedy slow stitching on Gary and Paul’s textile bark strips for the next Above and Below Rust and Remembrance session. Gary had no time to stitch between sessions as he’s sorting through his dear departed […]
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Rust & Remembrance Session 1 – Monday 17th March 2025
Having made the discovery that the cathedral Beech Tree was now a growing space for new life on the forest floor I decided that the Silver Birch might be the inspiration for the hanging tree columns in my eventual installation. […]
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Almost a Tale Told Backwards
March 14th In trying to find out how to find the Cathedral Beech Tree prior to our walk I rang Fineshade but could only talk to a Bot who assured me he wasn’t a Bot and that if I left […]
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Hero Quest Walk in Search of the Cathedral Beech Tree
13th March Enticed by this legend “This veteran Beech has stood for hundreds of years on the eastern edge of Fineshade Wood and is called the Cathedral Tree by some Fineshade folk. However, it is much closer to the village of […]
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Getting Ready
10th / 17th March Some much needed planning has started to happen, I had spent a lot of time exploring inks, watercolours, collage, stamps, small prints, and other materials thinking my way towards what I would create for Do The […]
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Into The Forest
I am delighted to be at the beginning of my ABOVE AND BELOW project – Supported using public funding by Arts Council England How did I get here? My participation in The University of Northampton’s Heritage Accelerator Program during 2023 […]