I know I can’t be alone in the feeling that as each year passes, time definitely goes faster… First thought on waking this morning was ‘No! not the last day of...
Quite a number of people - off and online - have been posing the ‘which glue’ question. I am absolutely not an expert, so in no way should this be taken as the...
I had not appreciated, until I was invited to visit the Textile Conservation Section last week, just how much shared ground there would be. Susana’s and my paths had crossed...
Sue Lawty’s work has an immediate appeal to me as a textile conservator and a student of textiles. There is an absolute beauty and serenity in the order created by...
Running this morning in the pouring rain and mud led me to contemplating… just WHY is it so good? I think it’s to do with total engagement: The primal, fundamental...
Very good two day symposium in Harrogate last Thursday and Friday. I so nearly didn’t book ‐ juggling and justifying the expense to the last minute…but being...
Just back from my first run for over 18 months! Tired muscles but the clearest of clear days at this time of year are a gift. High on the moors with running partner Eileen who has...
Since writing the previous blog entry - ‘Making Order’ - a friend has directed me to the opening stanza of William Blake’s poem ‘Auguries of...
I have made two installation pieces in gallery101….‘Hieroglyph’ and ‘Order’ I want to talk about the second one first. Order Around the time I was...
Two very interesting days in gallery 101. Two tables of sketchbooks, samples and work in progress. Many visitors, sometimes 2 -3 deep at the table, sometimes a lone soul. Always...
I was recently given a stone of the most extraordinary proportions. It is 14 times as long as it is wide. It is 13.6 x 0.9cm It is beautiful, fine, smooth and slender with a...
In the big sky landscape of Northumberland 14 miles due west of Newcastle, Friday night saw the studio opening of good friend, Richard Kidd. Richard paints landscapes. Large,...
This week I have spent three very full days within the V&A museum. I have been looking, drawing, writing, researching, photographing (photographed), giving a talk in the...
1969: Shirebrook Comprehensive School ‘Careers Convention’ and I ask the then Head of Chesterfield College of Art “I’m not great at it but I think I want...
Notebook entry: Wednesday 10 August 2005. Alpes Maritime Clues de Barles, near Digne. Pressed biscuit thin perpendicular ribs of rock, Lined one after another like a vertical...
Notebook entries: Monday 11 July 2005 10.30am. High on top of Petit Vignmale in French Pyrenees. Exposed drops to right and high on left above glacier. Clear sun, cool breeze....
I want to talk about many aspects of the work....... probably in no particular order....... to provide a context for the thinking that (I hope) is going to take place over the...
I always think that absolutely the hardest thing about weaving a tapestry is the starting - the very first row. And so it is thus with this web log. At this begining stage the...