Tag: art
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Creating Stains
I have recently started a new collaboration with artist friend Gillian McFarland exploring stains and marks. It is incredibly liberating to just experiment and play, swapping ideas and techniques and to see where it takes us creatively, without a fixed goal or deadline. For me it is great to feel able to explore process and concepts…
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Postcards from San Francisco 1
In the fine tradition of sending the postcards once you have got home, I am finally posting some highlights from San Francisco, starting 8 weeks or so after I got back! As with most big cities, San Francisco has excellent museums. When the weather was good we were outside, as much as possible, but when it rained…
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What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston
This week I finally got to see my work Tool Shed on exhibition at Snibston, a museum a few miles away from me. Apparently this work inspired the whole exhibition project, which is really nice to know. My work is exhibited in a purpose-built shed, inside the giant museum shed-style building. It’s great that my dad was…
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Christmas Shopping at Makers’ Yard
Make it a handmade Christmas and come shopping at my studio building, Makers’ Yard, where you can buy from the other tenants in the studio building as well as me. I’ll have a lot of samples for sale (cushions, bags, scarves, brooches etc), as well as discounts on books, fabrics, sewing tools and gift vouchers for…
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Selling craft in the fine art market
I recently attended “Making it in the fine art market” a Cockpit Arts Making It seminar and made the following notes. Event chaired by Susan Mumford Be Smart About Art, with panel including and Sarah Myerscough. Breaking into the fine art market Clear, consistent body of work, suitable for the market. Pricing should reflect fine art…