A combination of having work done on the house and the summer holidays mean that I have not spent as much time in the studio as normal (not least because there was a lot of tidying and sorting required in the house before the work). I did get into the studio for a...
You don’t need to go far to have an adventure. Earlier this summer I headed to Sutton Bank with my daughter for an early evening walk. We spotted a large caterpillar and some orienteering markers, she explored some dens that had been built, and we watched the...
I was thinking recently about how much my life is well insulated from the weather, seasons and nature. A lot of the time I’m in a bubble of my well insulated and centrally heated house (something I definitely appreciate) with electric lighting, working at my...
I’m remembering a walk in January when a lone tree in a field caught my attention, the shape of the branches against the sky, how stripped back it was without leaves or flowers or fruit of any kind, how during the Winter all the scars from fallen branches and...
There is something deeply hopeful about seeing the snowdrops emerging in the first months of the year. Even if it isn’t Spring yet (as my daughter tried to persuade me last week – “look Mummy, there are snowdrops, it must be Spring”) snowdrops...
‘West Burton Falls’ was made in 2018 using wet felting, needle felting and hand stitching, and was inspired by the waterfall close to West Burton in Wensleydale, known as Cauldron Falls. It’s very close to the village green but tucked away down a...
