I haven't been here for a while so just to prove I'm still alive I thought I better write something!
Had a great day at Askrigg on Saturday with the popupgallery, was a tad uncertain as to how it would be as the weather has been, to put it mildly, rather naff, but the sun shone for most of the morning and there was only drizzly rain in the afternoon, until we packed up of course, then it came down with a bit more force!
The drive up was stunning. I've been up that end of the dales a long time ago but had quite forgotten how beautiful it is. Swinithwaite in particular stuck in my mind, such gorgeous old houses, typical dales style, low, small windows, mellow stone, could definitely live there.
Met and talked to some lovely people during the day, sold a lot of cards and a picture, yippee!!
Am still doing lots of bird papercuts, there is good reason for that which I will enlighten you with in a future blog, ooh, you're intrigued now . . . !!
Have joined the Thornborough Heritage Trust, this has been set up in order to preserve a complex of Neolithic Henges, one of which is just down the road from where I'm sat at this very moment. The landscape they are set in has slowly been eaten up over the years by gravel quarrying and this just has to stop, the Trust is trying to save what we still have http://www.thornboroughheritagetrust.org/ This is well worth having a look at, I know we are lucky over here with so many historical sites but most up here in Yorkshire are Roman and Viking, this is something older and it was created by the indigenous people of the time, this alone should make it worth saving and preserving.
There, my preachy rant is done, but with feeling!!!
Just words this time, I will be back with pictures . . . soon!
Monday 23 April 2012
Monday 16 April 2012
I Should Grow Wings . . . !!!
I have been getting on with some work this week, honest!
Though all I have to show for it is more damn birds, they are becoming a very slight obsession, as if you hadn't noticed. And I saw my first swallows of the year last week too.
In the past I could take or leave our little feathered friends but for some reason they are taking over my artistic life at the moment, what is turning out to be a rather long moment if truth be told.
These here are of the weird and wonderful variety, new species, that inhabit the space between my ears alone, if anyone else spots one I will be worried, you'll have been creeping into my head, a slightly odd place to be!
It is still my intention, at some point, to do some more realistic specimens but I'm having fun with these for now.
Though all I have to show for it is more damn birds, they are becoming a very slight obsession, as if you hadn't noticed. And I saw my first swallows of the year last week too.
In the past I could take or leave our little feathered friends but for some reason they are taking over my artistic life at the moment, what is turning out to be a rather long moment if truth be told.
Thursday 5 April 2012
Busy Day!!
Tomorrow is a Richmond day!
Drop-in workshops at the Station and an exhibition by pop-up gallery artists. So in between vets appointments and catching up with emails and doing this of course . . . can't you just tell I'm putting something off here . . . I have stuff to do. I've got little papercutting kits to put together and simple designs to get organized for my workshop. We will all be at the Station from 10am 'til 4pm Friday 6th, do come and say "hello" if you can get over there.
It seems such a long time since I sat and did any proper pictures, I can feel withdrawal symptoms setting in. And for Sue, I will be getting on with my Mermaid this weekend, promise! I'll be back to my cutting mat after tomorrow, because, despite what they say about women being good multi-taskers, I am not! Does this make me an honorary man or an alien, who knows, and please don't enlighten me, ignorance is bliss!
So my plan for this holiday weekend is work, I may escape to do Easter egg deliveries to my best beloved on Sunday, say hello to the pigs, geese, chucks and gorgeous little cayuga, though she is not so little these days and has laid egg number 5 already and her barely a year old, ducks do start young these days!
My mermaid made her first appearance at the beginning of this blog a few weeks ago and the poor love has been floundering in a state of "un-finishedness" since then, neglectful artist that I am. Let's hope she doesn't put a watery spell on me so I start doing her all wrong. I actually quite like her so far so am looking forward to seeing her finished. Then I can start more birdy stuff, dinosaur birdy stuff I think. I have been reading books about fossils and evolution and extinction and my imagination has been fired, just need to get my act into gear and start doing, soon, soon!!
And to break up all this wordiness I will put more pictures on too, ooh, that means rummaging about in my way too messy studio . . .
Drop-in workshops at the Station and an exhibition by pop-up gallery artists. So in between vets appointments and catching up with emails and doing this of course . . . can't you just tell I'm putting something off here . . . I have stuff to do. I've got little papercutting kits to put together and simple designs to get organized for my workshop. We will all be at the Station from 10am 'til 4pm Friday 6th, do come and say "hello" if you can get over there.
It seems such a long time since I sat and did any proper pictures, I can feel withdrawal symptoms setting in. And for Sue, I will be getting on with my Mermaid this weekend, promise! I'll be back to my cutting mat after tomorrow, because, despite what they say about women being good multi-taskers, I am not! Does this make me an honorary man or an alien, who knows, and please don't enlighten me, ignorance is bliss!
So my plan for this holiday weekend is work, I may escape to do Easter egg deliveries to my best beloved on Sunday, say hello to the pigs, geese, chucks and gorgeous little cayuga, though she is not so little these days and has laid egg number 5 already and her barely a year old, ducks do start young these days!
My mermaid made her first appearance at the beginning of this blog a few weeks ago and the poor love has been floundering in a state of "un-finishedness" since then, neglectful artist that I am. Let's hope she doesn't put a watery spell on me so I start doing her all wrong. I actually quite like her so far so am looking forward to seeing her finished. Then I can start more birdy stuff, dinosaur birdy stuff I think. I have been reading books about fossils and evolution and extinction and my imagination has been fired, just need to get my act into gear and start doing, soon, soon!!
And to break up all this wordiness I will put more pictures on too, ooh, that means rummaging about in my way too messy studio . . .
Sunday 1 April 2012
Pop Up Gallery and Stuff . . .
It's another sunny day and here I am, sat in front of my computer!
Yesterday was my first stint with the "popupgallery", arty folk taking their arty stuff to remoter parts of t'Yorkshire Dales. Tunstall was my initiation day, we were set up in the village hall so no worries on the cup of tea front, phew! As well as yours truly and her papercuts there was jewelry, painting, printing and cup cakes, yummy. Quite a few people came through and tried the various workshops, talked to we artists and consumed afore-mentioned cup cakes. Sue Dewhurst is the lovely lady who runs the popups and the artists and makers I met yesterday were a great group of gals, no chaps there, so I'm not being sexist!
Our next do is at the Station in Richmond, an exhibition is on at the moment but it is workshop day on Good Friday, it is expected to be busy as we are in the Easter Hols now, so lots of locals and tourists should be around. I'll be doing a workshop and am just trying to concoct some little kits for people to take home with them in order to have a go at papercutting at home. Thought I'd do one kit with a couple of designs in to hang on ribbons. The other is a bit different, a string of bunting! How will I do it? Mmm, well, I shall create 2 designs, print about 5 of each so they can be alternated and hung on a long piece of ribbon. I haven't explained this very well so will attempt a photo when it's done.
Due to my gadding about the countryside I have done very little work so have no pics to fluff things out, I'd better fill my mug with tea and get back to my desk now or I shall be appearing very slack!!
Yesterday was my first stint with the "popupgallery", arty folk taking their arty stuff to remoter parts of t'Yorkshire Dales. Tunstall was my initiation day, we were set up in the village hall so no worries on the cup of tea front, phew! As well as yours truly and her papercuts there was jewelry, painting, printing and cup cakes, yummy. Quite a few people came through and tried the various workshops, talked to we artists and consumed afore-mentioned cup cakes. Sue Dewhurst is the lovely lady who runs the popups and the artists and makers I met yesterday were a great group of gals, no chaps there, so I'm not being sexist!
Our next do is at the Station in Richmond, an exhibition is on at the moment but it is workshop day on Good Friday, it is expected to be busy as we are in the Easter Hols now, so lots of locals and tourists should be around. I'll be doing a workshop and am just trying to concoct some little kits for people to take home with them in order to have a go at papercutting at home. Thought I'd do one kit with a couple of designs in to hang on ribbons. The other is a bit different, a string of bunting! How will I do it? Mmm, well, I shall create 2 designs, print about 5 of each so they can be alternated and hung on a long piece of ribbon. I haven't explained this very well so will attempt a photo when it's done.
Due to my gadding about the countryside I have done very little work so have no pics to fluff things out, I'd better fill my mug with tea and get back to my desk now or I shall be appearing very slack!!
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