by StaceyW | Mar 20, 2011 | Jacquard weaving, Life, Psychology, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Mar 13, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Teaching, Weaving
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!!...
by StaceyW | Mar 6, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Travel, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Feb 28, 2011 | Art, Education, Nature, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Feb 6, 2011 | Life, Nature, Psychology, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Jan 30, 2011 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, Weaving
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...
