Never underestimate the power of a group – a collective ethos pushes ideas forward.

Stuart Carey

I’ve just returned from a wonderful few days with a group of innovative and industrious students working together to produce some great results.

Anne Louise Gillilan had very innovative ideas stiffening fabric to make her white boxes of different sizes that opened to reveal surprises while in contrast Sue Evans explored box structures and waxed surfaces using  an intense orange.

Rachel ‘s Singleton’s ideas came from the idea of cocoons and enfolding.

Or this way up

See more about Rachel’s ideas on her  blog

Chris Cannon used natural plant forms to inspire her work with paper and silk.

Plant forms

Anne Rooney looked at the passage of time and experimented with a book structure.

So many more ideas are in progress – changing the nature of fabric, opening and closing, things that pop up or containers that hold precious objects or collections……