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Doodle on envelope 18th May 2016

 

New work

It’s been a while since I made any completely new work as I’ve been so time poor for the past few years, but here is some I’ve been working on. Some is available in my shop and some is already sold (yippee!) and I’m also still very happy to make commissions. So if you have an idea for a special gift (I’ve just completed a beautiful wedding present commission) please get in touch! I’ve had lots of fun on the beach with my daughter searching for lovely bits of driftwood over the past few months and some of it is coming up here…

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Kite Flying! Click here for more details

 

 

 

 

Roosting Birds. Click here if you want to see in more detail

 

 

Chicken – click here for more details

 

 

 

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And this is a larger wire drawing – go here for more images and details

Steve Mason Video

I MISS the Beta Band!

I haven’t heard any of Steve Mason’s (Beta Band’s lead singer) solo stuff until just now, and have just watched (most of) this video. I like 🙂

Playing with new ideas

I had a fun morning yesterday playing with some new ideas that have been floating about in my head for aaaaaaaages. A long time ago I started collecting the little round offcuts from my husband’s woodwork – apart from being lovely tactile shapes they have so many possibilities in my mind! Stacking blocks, oversized beads, stands for my work at shows, and plinths for little tiny works of art.

My 18 month old daughter is *obsessed* with balloons at the moment and I imagined her grabbing hold of one and floating off on a little adventure, and this is what I came up with:

 

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I’ve also been playing with little wire 3D birds for a while but kept them hidden from everybody – but here is one I made yesterday:

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Based on my favourite chicken at the moment, Great Aunt Eleanor (because she looks like a Victorian Great Aunt!) I forgot to give her any eyes, but as an experiment I think she works quite well!

 

I’m looking forward to making more of these and putting them into my Etsy shop asap.

 

Oh by the way – I made some lovely new mobiles which I’m ever so proud of, here is a picture of one:

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Which is available to buy from my Etsy shop HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I’m off to have another look at the beautiful ‘Line Up’ which I went to see the other day and can highly recommend a visit to – but hurry up as it’s only on until March 6th.

 

Condensation

Hmm, the photos are not quite how I saw it in real life, but the condensation on the inside of our vintage up-leaky and down-leaky greenhouse (in estate agents terms a lovely conservatory) was looking particularly beautiful this evening.

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My Friday photos

It was nice to see some spring blossom in Totnes on Friday. And I love this graffiti which I think looks a bit like a line having a dance!

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My studio

Some paper I've been printing on using some of my husbands green wood offcuts and a lino cut. Gold and white - a bit Christmassy now but what do you think?
Some paper I’ve been printing on using some of my husbands green wood offcuts and a lino cut. Gold and white – a bit Christmassy now but what do you think?

I’m ever so excited today as I’m making some mobiles for a shop in London – I’ll post more details later – and they’re asking for some lovely new colour ways. I took my camera out to my studio today to snap some of the plastic bottles I’ve been sorting out. I need some nice silvers, greys and dark black to contrast with them now. I’m going to have to do a trawl around my local hairdressers!

Lovely pastelly and warm pinks and yellow plastic bottles for a couple of mobiles going to London.
Lovely pastelly and warm pinks and yellow plastic bottles for a couple of mobiles going to London.

As my camera was out there I started snapping some of the things that are in progress / generally just lying around and here are some of the pictures I took. My studio is always so busy and full – and a real mess to anybody else! – that it’s nice to see little areas sectioned off by themselves on their own, not surrounded by everything else.

Some offcuts from making a drip-drop mobile... I love the shapes and colours all together
Some offcuts from making a drip-drop mobile… I love the shapes and colours all together
Some leaves and drip drop shapes for mobiles in progress...
Some leaves and drip drop shapes for mobiles in progress…
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Some beautiful wooden shapes which I snaffled from our kindling, brought home from my husbands workshop. Offcuts! Too beautiful to be burnt!

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Some shapes which all happened to land here - I think I'll glue them down like this
Some shapes which all happened to land here – I think I’ll glue them down like this
A collage I was working on the other day but decided I didn't like it - but then when I saw it today I decided it's not as bad as I thought!
A collage I was working on the other day but decided I didn’t like it – but then when I saw it today I decided it’s not as bad as I thought!

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Hmmm, collage bits!
Hmmm, collage bits waiting to be stuck down somewhere!
Some beautiful driftwood pieces and some shapes snaffled from our kindling bag which came from my husbands workshop - I love the shapes. colours and textures together
Some beautiful driftwood pieces and some shapes snaffled from our kindling bag which came from my husbands workshop – I love the shapes. colours and textures together
An order from my Etsy shop which I made this morning
An order from my Etsy shop which I made this morning
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Wire!
Some of my many painted cork characters which live by a window.
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Some of my drunken – looking dolls. Made from air-drying clay

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Symbiosis colouring book update…

 

 

Etsy shop bannerMy colouring book ‘Symbiosis’ is now available to buy from my Etsy shop for £12.50 plus P&P.

There are 16 A4 pages printed onto lovely quality smooth white paper. What a fabulous relaxing Christmas present to buy for someone! My first print run of 100 books is already running low so I’m feeling pretty proud.

Here are a few cropped images from inside for a sneaky peek.

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