RELISTED:BBC Children in Need Charity Auction

Every year, like millions of people across the UK (and beyond, I suspect!), I tune into the BBC’s Children in Need Telethon and enjoy watching outrageous performances, hearing inspiring stories and using a good box of tissues watching footage of children and Groups in communities, who have been helped along by this wonderful cause.
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3 Challenges, 5 ATCs!

It’s been a really hectic, but thoroughly enjoyable day today… took my Halloween artwork to the gallery this morning and had a long chat with Martyn, who had immense trouble trying to price and ‘categorise’ what I do. We both agreed that there’s no “box” I fit into… imagine that?!
Came home and started making some [...]

SaWo – Altered Cutlery

That’s the challenge today at Saturday’s Workout – Altered Cutlery. Here are a couple of large spoons that I have in the Seventh Wave Gallery in Bude… I still have some Zombie spoons to finish for the Halloween window, but like everything else, it takes time!
I love altering cutlery and probably the most complex part [...]

Spill it!

I like Carmen Torbus’s work – a lot. I mean, she’s inspirational and “messy” too – gotta love messy because I identify with that. One of these days I’ll shoot a video and you can see and be amazed, that given my working conditions, I can still produce art!!!!
I want to take her online class. [...]

Spring is in the air…

CBH – “Spring”. Here’s a collaged canvas I finished this morning. I have come to the conclusion that the sooner I sort and pack my art supplies and leave myself just a few things to create with, the better! I’m feeling super-stressed and thoroughly fed up for lots of reasons. I have mountains of packing [...]

Guest Host at Mixed Media Monday

I’ve wanted to be Guest Host at MMM for a long time and then I finished my canvas and I thought, “Yes! This piece is worthy!” I call it ‘The Seer’…

And finally, a glimpse of the texture layers!

I’m very honoured that Diane liked this theme and can’t wait to see what you all create with blues [...]

I like water!!

Woohoo! I started my first art journal today!! I was at my slightly mad friend Pat’s house this afternoon and we had lots of fun together – she cooked us a super meal, fussed over Nick who was suffering with IBS and treated us to much laughter and warmth – as usual!! The best thing [...]

My unpredictable muse…

Isn’t it funny how sometimes you start to create something and it takes you in an unexpected direction? We were very busy at home today, taking advantage of the reasonably good weather to tackle sorting through the junk and non-junk in our garage. Despite the very blustery wind, Nick and I managed to bring half [...]

MMM’s Art of the Week!!

Over at Mixed Media Monday, there’s a forum devoted to mixed media and we exchange news, views, tips, techniques and generally there are lots of helpful, friendly discussions. Kaz has the job of choosing a winning Mixed media entry every week and guess what? This week’s is ME!! Woohoo! She said she loves comes over here [...]

Moody double header

This is a very stylised piece of work – for Saturday’s Workout, the challenge is image transfer and for TGIF, Heike and Sandy asked for keys. This is a very mixed media collage – layers, burnt bits, wire, beads, layers of ink, glaze, mists, gesso… all on a 6″ square placemat/coaster!

The image was transferred onto [...]