winter sun

Browngrotta have got a blog now.

GOSH

collaging

Ismini Samanidou's Timeline at the Dovecote in Edinburgh.

studio...

We met with the builder who's going to be making our studios yesterday and due to a job being postponed he can now start our job next month. This is good news especially as we live in a place where waiting lists of a year or longer are not unheard of. I have occasional feelings of 'oh the money could be better spent on something else, I don't take up much space etc' before I take myself in hand. It is going to be heaven to have a space which is all mine, where nothing has to be put away at the end of the day. That's what bugs me - we have lots of space in the house but tidying work away really gets in the way of any flow or sense of ease that might otherwise develop.

Artapestry 2 has opened in Angers and goes on till May - just before I'm due to go there in June. I think I will have to find a way of getting there sooner. The last time I saw a big exhibition of large scale tapestries was at the Harley Gallery in Welbeck (where Follow a Thread is now on) and must be at least 10 years ago. How ridiculous!

Wouldn't you just love a little studio in there?! My henshed/studio to be is surrounded by tall cherry trees and a bay tree but isn't actually in one. Never mind... It really looks as if the studios will happen now, we have found a builder and he can start in April. Very, very exciting!

Yoshiko Nakano's tapestries.

w.i.p.

Warb's current work in progress. (180 x 150 cm) I wish I'd taken pictures of it right from the start, it has changed so much already. He is much more productive than me at the moment. What am I saying he's always more productive than me.

For mind bogglingly labour intensive and both funny and touching work have a read/look at Confessions of a trichophile.

happy new year!

My favourite mountain the Matterhorn seen from St Luc in Switzerland.

Have done some Christmas shopping at Conakry Refugee School. Such a small amount of money can do so much. £5 buys exercise books, pens and pencils for 5 children for a year. £10 pays for 50 school lunches, the only hot meal many of the children have each day. The charity is run by a family we know back in Shropshire and their promise is that every £ given goes directly to the school.