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Autumn in middle England.
In which it starts to feel like autumn, although it doesn’t look particularly golden… I’m not sure that we’re going to have a red and gold autumn this year. I may be wrong, but it’s already late into October and there are precious few signs. In the last couple of weeks I’ve been up to…
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A Celtic Mystery
Originally posted on Dreaming In Stitches: A Slow Stitch Story… It’s not every time I make a piece of stitched textile art that I could tell you for certain where the inspiration came from, often they seem to evolve from a process of stitching meditation, but that’s not the case with my latest work, this one…
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Having a stitchy time…
You know how it is, one day it’s January and the next it’s nearly May… The very observant will also notice that this is not the palette I began 2016 using. That piece is sitting patiently, waiting for me to complete the one you can see in progress below. I’ve noticed it before, some pieces just demand…
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Happy New Year!
A little late I know, but I hope you have a wonderful 2016! What a year 2015 turned out to be. The highlights for me were meeting so many fabulous people at the Discover group exhibitions we held in June and November. I feel enormously lucky to be part of such a supportive and energetic…
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All you lovely people…
Massive thanks to all the lovely people who braved the most unpleasant weather last weekend and came over to Ivinghoe to support the Discover group in our pre-Christmas Art Fair. It was an excellent few days for local artists, with a number of other groups also staging fairs and exhibitions, and really shows what amazing talents…
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Discover go to Ivinghoe…
Just a week away now from our Discover Original Art Fair in Ivinghoe, which means a heady mixture of excitement and mild panic as we try to get everything ready in time. I know many followers here live far too far away to visit us in person, but if you are near Ivinghoe next weekend,…
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A Day In The Life…
Originally posted on Dreaming In Stitches: There was a short series of programmes on the BBC a while back, called ‘What Do Artists Do All Day?’ Be honest, you wonder about it too don’t you… The Discover group of artists will be staging an exhibition of our work in November and in preparation, we thought it…
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Rock, Water, Cloth…
Originally posted on Dreaming In Stitches: Being a slow artist has its challenges – not the least of which, is how to blog about a ‘work in progress’. I quickly realised that a weekly update here on my stitched tapestries would end up more like a ‘spot the difference’ competition. In recent months, I’ve gravitated…
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Still Raining…
Just about the last thing you want after three weeks camping in Scotland, is to come home with a laundry pile as big as Ben Nevis and experience four consecutive days of rain – just saying…