reasons to be cheerful

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

a travelling encyclopedia

I prepared a suitcase full of pattern and colour to take with me to Mexico. Coals to Newcastle you might think.

made to measure

The sitting-room desk I sit at for ‘office work’ is one designed and built for my parents in the ‘forties.

some sweet uses of adversity

The other weekend I went back to school; at least, I became a student again, trying to understand and get to grips with some of the techniques of mono-printing. I loved it.

winter lights

It’s nearly the solstice, the shortest darkest day of the year. I long for the turn-around when the morning begins to break a little earlier and the daylight stays a little longer.

pattern’s in the air

A lot’s happened since I last wrote – where to begin? I’ll start at the finish.

different strokes

A shared aim between all the students was a wish to make marks in a different way – that is, other than those they’d been doing hitherto.