My February notes from the studio is going to be fairly brief as February, already a short month was made even more condensed by snow days, half term and sickness!! Roll on the Spring is all I can say. But this has meant I have had time for planning and daydreaming and sketching up plans and ideas. I have also managed some reading which is a real treat. My focus for my making over the coming months is going to be on woodlands as an overarching theme. It’s something my work ha

Winter is going… Can you feel it? The change in the air. It’s subtle at first, walking out of work and realising it’s still light; noticing the flash of yellow from some early daffodils. I love the change of seasons, it’s like the world is taking a deep breath in. There is excitement of what can come and nostalgia for what has been. I like the feeling of being on the cusp of something new. Being neither here nor there is so full of potential to be creative. This change-over i

I find them everywhere. Even in the most concrete, urban places somehow a stray leaf will have blown my way, giving imperfect balance to my day. As foliage, green, they are a part of the tree; the garden; the woodland; the forest. Fallen, on the ground, they are mementos of what was. The autumn makes this passage of time, the falling becomes a spectacle. The abundance of leaves is an accepted beauty, a time to pause and appreciate nature. Rarely the singularity of a leaf is