Painting the window at Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere was great fun. I’d done it once before at the Saltbox Gallery in Helmsley, but this was the first time I’d used actual paint as well as chalk markers…
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January of the "New Year" is heading fast towards February and I thought it was high time I updated this News section, since I don't seem to have written anything since last summer. This isn't strictly true as I've been updating my Wordpress blog and there has actually been plenty of "News" to report.
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This time last week I was just getting home after a pub supper and a glorious evening swim in the river to celebrate returning from a sucessful weekend in Thirsk at Art in the Pen.
I'd never done big art fair before…
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Wednesday evening saw a number of intrepid printmakers braving the heat wave (and aged vehicles in my case) to travel east to Barnard Castle, in neighbouring County Durham, where our group "Cumbria Printmakers" have set up temporary home at The Witham.
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I was honoured and excited last week to have been invited by Sam Read Booksellers in Grasmere to collaborate on a last minute window display promoting Maggie Nelson's "Bluets"published by Jonathan Cape.
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Sometimes I need a break from the endless blue of Cyanotype, magical though it is. Today I've been enjoying an exercise in drawing; after a period of creative block when all I really want to do is plant things and tend the garden.
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I had a wonderful time in Harrogate this year, the weather was glorious and it was lovely to meet lots of the artists and makers I'd been chatting with in the virtual world.
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