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As a mixed media artist who’s work is predominantly textile based, I am very aware of the escalating and disastrous impact that the textile industry is having on the environment.  As the textile and clothing industry continues to grow the […]

I have found during an iron pour I am always on my period. It either starts the day before or the morning of the pour almost without fail. Even the first time I participated in a pour, when I was […]

It’s ten years since I attended a series of meetings in which a number of regular a-n bloggers were invited to speak about the advantages of writing as part of their creative practice: Alex Pearl, Emily Speed, Rosalind Davis, Rob […]

The Sweet Spot… It’s a bit cold in the studio today. (Although I have to say that of all the studios I’ve ever inhabited, this is the cosiest)  I haven’t been here for ages, so it’s chilled to its bones. […]

in amongst all that’s currently going on,  i’m sitting with a feeling of needing to update how i think and communicate about my practice.  looking at my a-n  bio it feels a little outdated now. writing about myself doesn’t come […]

so here we are, 2021.  the blog theme for the year is around how i’m going to hold my nerve as we exit the pandemic.  in the weeks running up to 2021 beginning, the whole pandemic affecting me and my […]

As predicted the making of artwork has been exceedingly slow and patchy over the last year, primarily because of my MRes studies but also of course impacted by this ongoing pandemic. Despite the issues we have all faced, I am […]

Review of the Year… a long read… sorry… get some tea and biscuits first maybe? 2020… yes… it’s been a bit crap really hasn’t it, generally? But I don’t want to write a review about a virus, my fury at […]

As we go into the New Year, 2021, I have been making decisions repeatedly about how I should proceed with the tapestry currently on my loom. The design development is based on a painting by Gordon Perfect’s painting “Electric Brae”, […]

in december the large array of site offices were removed – i was there to capture the process for the project and to have a look inside the museum.  the heating was on !! i’m looking forward to returning to […]

the view from the dining room table today is one of calm trees and clear blue sky, the frost on the roofs slowly disappearing from view as the sun slowly transits out of sight.  my view is accompanied by the […]

Why should I care for an elderly woman who lived and died thousands of miles away from me, someone I’d never met and I’d never meet now that she was dead?  The real question is: who said you need to […]

Here’s the thing about money. And the lack of it. It inhibits and encourages risk. Risk makes for interesting work. Risk makes failure. From failure comes growth. Take the large scale paper drawing, and my subsequent expensive paper habit: If […]

I realise that reflecting on this particular past year focusses very much on what has been happening for and to me. Living and working (for the most) in a small town during a pandemic my focus has been rather limited. […]

Contemporary cast iron art cupola furnaces retain gynepomormic female elements, the process of melting iron is informed by industrial blast furnaces yet reflects the imagery and personal scale of traditional smelting furnaces. Gestation and running furnaces are mimetic to one […]

The top stack of the furnace is usually made from a rolled steel cylinder which has to be lined with refractory in order to stop the iron from melting through the steel. In industrial scale blast furnaces the lining is […]