I wrote in my previous post about how being mentored (shout out to Margret Petrie!) has altered my sense of the possible and enabled me...

"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself" Oprah Winfrey To that I would add 'to find the courage inside...

Nine months ago I abandoned an idea that I'd been working on since early 2023 - I had been reflecting on what women have done to...

Earlier this year, for a "30 Days" I was making cardboard chess-piece puppets. Seeing Jerome Kaplan's 1999 costume designs for The...

What do you do when what you're working on simply becomes stuck, when the original, usually misty vision will not come clear? One classic...

What would the world be without friends? After two years of being nervous about navigating a new website host, my friend Rachael sat with...

Even though I'm aware of it happening - that moment when some connections are made in the synaptic circuitry of the brain and an idea is...

Birds and the bees The bees are doing fine. I sit and stitch at odd moments, or occasionally work at them for an hour. Likewise the...

It's interesting how some elements of this project have fallen into place relatively easily, while others falter and stall. I've stopped...

For today - a quick review of progress on rust prints so far. The idea is make pieces that look like an amalgam of cave paintings and...

The project I'm working on has a number of elements. It began as a few ideas, which at the time felt like too few, and too simple. I've...

making it back It's taken three hours to get back on...I last wrote three years ago and had forgotten how to sign in. The relief of...

Making it again...and again...and again Take a few technology glitches, a dose of discouragement because a piece of work will just not...

In a book I'm now reading it mentions artist's 'waste'...the willingness to work for hours on an idea and then discard it if it hasn't...

I spent a couple of hours on the internet, looking up how to finish the edge of a hooked rug. It was the Northwest Folk Design blog that...

Another trip to England...to mind my grandchildren. We've always made things together - puppets and theatres, cardboard box houses,...

By the time I realised the foundry wouldn't be able to cast my pieces for the upcoming 'FORM' exhibition it was getting a little late to...

The week before Easter was spent making a duty visit. I was so glad that I'd made room in the suitcase for wools and hooks - making this...

It seems that in some people's minds, money and artists don't go together. Some years ago, in conversation with a young woman I said that...

On March 6th there was a phone call from a local school - would I be interested in doing something with the whole school for a morning on...