After touring at Tweeddale Museum and Gallery at Peebles and The Ropewalk at Barton-upon-Humber in 2023, this landmark exhibition travels south to Farnham to show new audiences the broad range of the group’s output. Each artwork in this anniversary exhibition includes an element of 50 – either obviously or obscurely.

Try to visit Making:50 at The Crafts Study Centre at Farnham, Surrey – open till 27th April 2024

Having sold my five Reading the Rings panels they went off to their new home in November and I settled down to make a 6th panel to join the exhibition at Farnham. It follows on from the last ones but with the focus on my current ongoing practice this decade.
The panel makes reference to the pandemic and how it affected my work and cancelled exhibition as well as time spent in the garden collecting clay pipe fragments whilst digging up our lawn which proved to be fun as well as a huge challenge! But what a treasure trove it was and some of the collection just had to be included.

Reading the Rings 6

Moving and downsizing house proved to be an even bigger challenge at this time. It was also a time for domestic sewing especially resizing or making curtains; hence the inclusion of curtain tape to accommodate the clay pipe fragments.
The delight of finding something that just fits never fails to make me happy.

I haven’t posted for a long time as time to be creative has been in short supply. Now I am emerging again to ‘get going’ again.