Spring cleaning for priorities…
Spring cleaning is like de-cluttering - it makes you feel good about yourself and your life... At least, that's the effect it has on me, which is just as well as we've a large old house and quite a lot of garden (and we're not gardeners!!) I have a very dear friend...
Mapping – a conference
Mapping - a physical two- or three- dimensional representation of a given place at a given time. Maps are usually associated with a scale, a grid, an orientation, and presenting information. They can be geographical, social, economic, linear, bird's eye view, a...
Accumulated Stash
I was doing a little tidying of my workshop, just clearing out the area under the stairs today. Wow. Isn't it amazing just how much stuff we accumulate?! It got me seriously alarmed as I pulled things out and took them outside so i could sort them into piles of...
Baby steps – first Masters presentation
This week was the first time I had to give a presentation to the MA students and staff. The preparation took a surprisingly long time because I kept having sudden realisations. Like - my goodness, I'll have been weaving for 20 years in June!! Yikes!! That's both...
Mood(y) boards!
This week I have to do my first masters presentation. OK, no big deal....! So far this semester, I've been attending a geology module, and the contextual art lectures. But I haven't been doing anything specifically for the MA... But now I have a deadline to get...
Pleats, crepes and twists – more collapsing weaves
This past weekend, I had the privilege to be part of a 4-day workshop with Ann Richards. Ann has been creating the most wonderful pleated scarves, dresses and now jewellery for a number of years, inspired largely by nature and in particular by bats and dragonfly...
Maths and geology challenges
Homework.... Normally a word to make you shudder - the dread anticipation of hours lost doing things you don't want to do, have no wish to learn, or things you know you ought to know but don't really want to; or maybe wishing you'd spent more time all those years ago,...
Harbingers of Spring
Hurrah! Spring is on the way!! Truly!! I promise!! Especially to our friends currently immersed in piles of snow in the mid-west of America! You may only see white out of your windows - if you can see out of your windows at all!! - but I can assure you that...
Feeding Our Minds
Birmingham's Museum & Art Gallery is thriving! Each time I visit, I am amazed at the sheer amount and diversity of people who are strolling through its galleries, stopping at this painting, or that piece of glass, reading the info boards and generally really...