Somerset Arts Weeks 2019

Somerset Arts Weeks is in full swing now and I am at venue 93 daily with my installation of contemporary work using natural materials and ceramics. I have used daffodil, red hot poker, Sisyrinchium and soft rush leaves, twisting these into cordage for use as string or then stitched into other forms. There are large…

Summer exhibition

This week I installed my large arch at the Bishops Palace, Wells for the summer exhibition organised by Heritage Courtyard Gallery. I made this work in response to the exhibition title “Re-Formation” and the arches in the ruins of the great hall behind. My piece, called “Differences Aside”, brings together two separate forms which support…

From the land

Preparing Juncus effussus for making cordage I am just back from a 4 day workshop with Tim Johnson, artist and basket maker. We went out into the landscape to harvest raw materials then prepared and made them into finished (or experimental) products. Juncus effussus is commonly known as ‘soft rush’ and grows in damp meadows…