mudlarking on my mind’s beach

Having been painting a lot of monotone patterns for the last few days, in answer to an intriguing and tricky brief, I found myself breaking out into bright colours last night.

reasons to be cheerful

It’s been quite a dreary wet winter so far. The other day, driving in the drizzle, I laughed

the busy bee…

…hath no time for sorrow’ is another Blake proverb my father gave me the benefit of in my childhood. Yesterday I learned a lot more about bees and their brilliant buzzing busy-ness.

a question of scale

I look at this little group of things tidied up onto my bathroom shelf every day, several times, and it always make me smile:

Pattern Power

‘Step and Path, Exhibition Road’

Two more well-known designs from the Collier Campbell Archive – ‘Bauhaus’ and ‘Cote d’Azure’  – appear in yet another little V&A book – this time about Modern Design.

More about the museum’s current exhibition another day. It’s the street outside that holds greater interest for me today – a tribute to the subtle power of pattern……