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Pearls of Wisdom: a miracle of mermaids

3 February 2010

What is the correct collective for a group of mermaids? A school of mermaids? A clan of mermaids? A muddle of mermaids? How about a miracle of mermaids?
With the stress of getting these babies drawn up, it seems miraculous that they’re all actually done now and ready for their next step. Here’s the full cast [...]

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Pearls of Wisdom: progress

27 January 2010

Yes indeed, you read that right: progress!
Sorry, did I make you choke on your cuppa? I know, I know, but sometimes miracles happen and they take us all by surprise when they do.
There has been some slow, but real, progress on Pearls of Wisdom in the last couple of weeks.
(For those joining the class late, [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 3: I’m drawing!

3 November 2009

Woah.
There were times in the last month or so when I thought that drawing would be a long, long time coming. I thought there would need to be lots and lots of warming up and relaxing and letting myself play.
Wrong.
What was missing was simply a case of applying bum to the seat and pencil to [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 2: Turtle steps, baby

2 November 2009

Turtle steps*, turtle steps… that’s what I’m telling myself right now.
No need to go mad with Art Every Day Month. No need to go full steam and run the risk of crashing and burning. As long as it’s a concrete step every day, I’m going to be happy.
I see lots of other participants are actually [...]

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Art Every Day Month – Day 1: Cornish Sea

1 November 2009

Ta da!
Well it may not look like much to you, sunshine, but that, my dear, is a very big step forward.
That is the sea off the Cornish coast, storm tossed and filled with fabulous creatures like snakelock anemones, brown velvet crabs and tompot blennies. And mermaids of course. Work in progress; creating oceans takes time, [...]

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Even more new photos! Sketchbooks!

3 October 2009

And a surfeit* of exclamation marks! Apparently!
I have been remiss and not writing enough posts lately – mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
But even though it’s not been apparent on the surface, I have been stirring away in the bowels of WordPress here getting ready for all kinds of new stuff for this site, [...]

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Hurrah! New photos – with goblins!

16 September 2009

Finally and at long last I have some reasonable photos of my most recent major work to share with you… photos of We Must Not Look at Goblin Men have just been uploaded to my portfolio.
It’s been quite difficult to get good pictures of this one. Firstly because it’s big; not quite Douglas-Adams-Hitchhikers-Guide-”space-is-big” big, but [...]

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Open Studios invitation

8 August 2009

Our invitation postcards for Open Studios have arrived, so time also to send an Open Invitation to our Open Studio on the wide-Open Intertubes.
(Apologies. I love wordplay. And I amuse myself endlessly. Just ignore me giggling in the corner.)
If you happen to be nearby, do please consider coming along – refreshments, cake and friendly chats [...]

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Open Studios press release

3 August 2009

I’m participating in my first ever Open Studios event this September. No, I’m not organised yet, and yes, I’m very nervous. Luckily I have two good friends and talented makers to keep me on track.

Memory and Dream – a Northamptonshire Open Studios exhibition of original textiles, altered books, mixed media and 3D art by Bren [...]

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