Stitch Retreat

I have just got my new Embroidery magazine and the advertising for Stitch Retreats has reminded me  that I need to tell you all that I will be running one for them 5th - 7th December 2014.
Many of you have wanted to come on my "Enchanted Forest" workshops but they are usually full so here is your chance to work with me for a few days doing foxes, birds, deer, wolves etc using a variety of approaches and getting a chance to work with hard to source vintage quilt fragments.
The venue is close to the A1 near Grantham so easy to get to from both south and north. Maybe I will see some of you there!

2 new stripes

New work on etsy

I have been neglecting my Etsy shop and it had got quite empty as I had withdrawn items to sell in my studio at the weekend. I have now restocked so if you are interested in any of these pieces they are for sale HERE

The Book Apocathery

My studio will be open all this weekend ( 26/27 April) as part of a special "Paper and Print" event at The Hearth in conjunction with the Hexham Book Festival.  There will be illustrators, small publishers , book artists and The Bewick Society and in my studio I will be showing a small collection of book related art work in suitcases called The Book Apocathery. I wasn't involved in the project myself but am very happy to showcase the work of others particularly this beautiful installation by Teresa Easton based on her reading of The Origin of the Species.

Hope to see you at The Hearth this weekend.

 

Easter weekend

Lovely weekend with family and gardening at home, the allotment and my son's garden. Best thing seen was this photograph in an exhibition at the wonderful Woodhorn Colliery Museum.  A bit surreal, the elephants are pulling an elephant skeleton presumably to the Hancock Museum. Taken in Newcastle -  late Victorian. The exhibition is well worth a visit. Prints of lantern slides found in the Northumberland Archives by an unknown photographer.

Book Work Two

A new book

I have gone back to book formats in my newest work. It will be on show for the first time at our Open Studios event next weekend.