Working in the woods using natural materials – good for the soul…
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Somerset Arts Weeks 2019
Somerset Arts Weeks is in full swing now and I am at venue 93 daily with my installation of contemporary work using natural materials and ceramics. I have used daffodil, red hot poker, Sisyrinchium and soft rush leaves, twisting these into cordage for use as string or then stitched into other forms. There are large…
Somerset Arts Weeks 2019
Experimental willow & ceramics SAW2019
Summer exhibition
This week I installed my large arch at the Bishops Palace, Wells for the summer exhibition organised by Heritage Courtyard Gallery. I made this work in response to the exhibition title “Re-Formation” and the arches in the ruins of the great hall behind. My piece, called “Differences Aside”, brings together two separate forms which support…
From the land
Preparing Juncus effussus for making cordage I am just back from a 4 day workshop with Tim Johnson, artist and basket maker. We went out into the landscape to harvest raw materials then prepared and made them into finished (or experimental) products. Juncus effussus is commonly known as ‘soft rush’ and grows in damp meadows…
Willow screen
A commission based on my client’s design – twisted willow screens held in position by tensioned horizontal wires, perfect for scrambling Clematis.
Winter exhibition ‘Chill’
Visit Wells for exhibition ‘Chill’
Fire I Sky I Cider Open Studios 2018
The meeting of willow and ceramics
Fire Sky Cider
An art show in a cidery
Exhibition preview
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