I went to my favourite place for the last week in October 2025. My favourite place as you will get to know me is the West Penwith District of Cornwall. I like to go to this [...]

In September 2025 I travel up to The Lund Studios (https://www.the-lund.co.uk), in Easingwold near York to participate on an 3 day course 'Autumnal Abstracts' with Sam Boughton (https://samboughton.co.uk).  I love Sam's work and I was  delighted [...]

During the summer I participated on an online course with Janette Philips (https://www.janettephillips.com) called 'Wabi Sabi' which focused on the beauty of the decaying and imperfection. The course involved making collage papers using a geli plate, [...]

I was lucky to be in Cornwall at the same time as the Cornwall Open Studios was taking place.  Several brochures about the Open Studios were left in the cottage that I was staying in and [...]

I have recently participated on an online course 'Experimental Cyanotypes' by  https://nataliedayartist.com Cyanotypes is an early photographic printing process used to create 'blue prints'.  It is a solution of iron salts, using UV light to create [...]

My brother and sister-in-law bought me 3 x 1.5 hour beginners pottery sessions with https://trevordyerceramics.co.uk for Christmas. The last time I did any thing with clay was when I was at secondary school where we had [...]

I love coloured glass. Stained cathedral glass windows, fused glass sun catchers and hand blown glass baubles to name a few forms of coloured glass.  I love the alchemy of sand being heated, mixed with minerals [...]

I am currently exploring Botanical inks. I have purchased homemade botanical inks from www.botaninkal.co.uk (who have an Etsy shop) and from L Cornenlissen & Son.  I have made Turmeric Ink as I have this spice in [...]