STITCHWORKS

Last Sunday, quite by chance, I saw an exhibition of ‘Out of the Ordinary’ craft work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Anne Wil...

Amongst other things, i.e. learning how to use a SLR camera and a life drawing class, I have continued with the pieces related to the theme ...

Happy New Year to those of you who visit my blog. I hope that 2008 will go forward in a healthier way than over the last few days when I hav...

Here is a picture of the completed recycled bowl. I show it for you to see the beads rolled from colour supplement paper and coated with ac...

Mostly photos today as I am really tired after the assessment today. All went well though an exhausting process and I didn’t feel too asham...

Last week we had the chance of short workshops in the 3DD department. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so you have no chance of seeing me g...

Last week we had an exercise called drawing with colour. To be honest it took me the whole session to work out that what I was being asked t...

We have been encouraged to join in an exhibition which calls for artwork on a yellow post-it note. As it was small I thought I would make a...

Last week we had a day loosely based on three dimensional modelling. Really more about cardboard modelling. I wasn’t looking forward to it ...

Thank you for the comments on the bowl. I will post more about it when I get as far as decorating the top edge; I am planning to use paper ...

The main theme for my course until the end of November is Reuse. It is a really wide theme when you start to look into the way artists have...

Last Wednesday 49 of us went on a site visit to Dungeness in Kent. I hadn’t heard much about the place until the visit, but it is a favouri...

This week I started my Art and Design Access Course along with about 50 other people of all sorts of ages and backgrounds. It was exhausting...

This weekend was sunny and quite hot, and the fields around here have been harvested. This is the view from my front garden which looks up ...

This months Etsy UK Challenge is on the theme of ‘Clouds’. I’ve have made a small bowl, four inches high. I made it in the same way as last ...

I made myself a pencil case this week out of a piece of fabric on which I used up my left over acrylic paint after the monoprinting session....

This has been a busy time with both my sons visiting. The local Horticultural Society had their summer show, and as my husband organises it...