Work in Progress
The upcoming Falmouth Art Gallery open exhibition has given me an excuse to try a new idea... starting from a central panel I've connected existing tone and line in the found metal to let the landscape organically form.
Craft/design fairsI regularly sell my work at design and craft fairs throughout the year. Future confirmed events for 2017 include Bedruthan Steps Christmas Fair and Jubilee Wharf Christmas Fair. More info coming soon...
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'Find the Time'
A recent commission from the National Trust at Trelissick house in Cornwall for their 'Find the Time' exhibition, telling the story of the house and it's inhabitants. My brief - A portrait of Margaret Lawrance.
My Landscape...
I've seen a barn owl three times following the the line of the river at the foot of our valley. From where I've been building a drystone wall between the forge and the studio to bank up and terrace the change in land level. We are almost in amongst the treetops here and the glimpses I have caught of the silent and swift passage of the owl were from a birds eye view looking down though the dense willows and oaks to where the river flows.
Diary extract February 2016 |
Our Tiny Home
'Indeed we began to wonder why anyone should ask for a house with more than a couple of rooms. Ours seemed so easily run and demanded little of the time one would have preferred to spend out of doors.'
from Island Years Island Farm by Frank Fraser Darling 
In the Forge...
'Taking Shelter' - A winter of heavy, prolonged rain and high winds have driven us away from the site where our shepherds hut sits and into the warmth of the forge. I sit here now with the wind howling, streaming with the head cold I caught last night when I was out in the storm with the landlord, lashing the roof down onto one of the unfinished quarry workshops. The wind had lifted and almost completely taken off the 30ftx12ft roof panel. In the dark, in a lull in the wind but still raining heavily, we made only a temporary fix. Now were forecast 70mph winds tonight. But, in the forge, with the shutters over the windows and dinner sizzling in the oven, candles alight and the wine open, we're cosy enough for sure!' diary extract February 2016
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'I am leaning on the gate, and suddenly it is as though I had all day to do that and nothing else, or anything else, to stare at butterflies, at clouds. But it is not so, it is the attitude of leaning on the gate, familiar and easy, that induces the idle mood, looking out upon the passing world.'
from Apple Acre by Adrian Bell.
from Apple Acre by Adrian Bell.
