Bags, brooches and Buttons.........

Bejewelled bags - work in progress

it's christmas here in my studio at the moment, everything is covered in glitter including me (no change there you might say). There are craft shows and gallery exhibitions heading toward me at a fast pace and in between the panicky making i thought i'd stop and do a quick post, i'm embarrassed to see the last post date again.

i think i have a couple of New Zealand and Australian blog watchers, guess what... i'm on tour over there next september only for a couple of weeks one is at geelong and the other at wellington. i'm excited though a little nervous about how to get me and my stuff over there, i have a lot of stuff.

When all the bags etc are finished i'll stick a few photos up, if you want to see them in the flesh come to the contemporary craft fair at hereford courtyard theatre next week.

i'm learning new songs at the moments this is one of them. Natalie Merchant's voice is haunting.

Textile Book Club at Malvern Hills College.........



I am running a course at Malvern and we are working on a book project called 'House' inspired by anything House or home related. Below i've added some pages from my book called 'Bird house in your soul'.

it had to happen.....

i've been caught on camera and now i'm on youtube, this was taken at the 'busking for cancer' evening. Lots of money was raised despite my performance!!!!!

I forgot to mention that i'm doing more music these days, i'll have to put stuff on my space soon. i have 3 gigs with my musical mates marcus and adrian. i'm at the 'busking for cancer' event tomorrow, too late for most people but it's for a good cause. here's a pic of me in action in my kitchen, taken by kim thittichai.

It's Herefordshire Art Week again we always have good fun in the studio hope you can come along.

Automata and other stuff.....................

Blimey i just noticed the last blog date i have been remiss but quite busy.

i went on holiday to Portugal and visited a lovely village on the silver coast called 'obidos' a bit of Moorish Portugal and totally beautiful. Aren't holidays great i didn't realise!



I've also been travelling around the country teaching and doing a bit of exhibiting again. My work was featured in Brighton Open Houses at Kim Thittichai's during May along side a group of lovely young men called Circus Kinetica who made intriguing weather vanes and lots of other stuff. i bought a piece called a Happy Clapper here atop my artshed




Meeting these guys and seeing thier work got me all interested in Automata and i wondered if i could possibly make one, so i got together with Marcus of the secret Laboratory and we worked out a way of doing it.




the design



the 'mill'








working out how to make the waves move









it works!!!!!















a test run in the frame.












the young masefield sets sail.




'The Young Masefield Goes Forth' can be seen at the Weavers Gallery, church lane, Ledbury 10 - 5 closing this sunday 12th July 2009. Hope you can make it, otherwise i hope this little video will suffice. it was taken by John Eager of Ledbury Portal. I'll be taking it to the Festival of Quilts so there another chance to see it in action. Stand Demo E. See you soon.

Ballooning and Hundertwasser.........

I went for a balloon ride with my mum this week a birthday pressie from my sister, mum and i are within 2 days of each other in may.

it was really interesting the balloon company Bath Balloons, encourage the riders to join in with the whole process, mind you i can't see how they can get it of the ground without a few willing hands, there were only 3 of them.

Anyway.. i was on holding the hole open while the air was blown in, it was fantastic to look inside, it was like a cathederal when half blown.

me holding hole open!!!

there were 16 riders and the pilot, this is my mum being man handled (by a man) cos she's got a bad knee. Most undignified.

we got up eventually and these are a few shots over Bath. Looking at the photo's later i noticed a comparison with the paintings of Hundertwasser so i've added a couple for you to compare and contrast. I've been using Hundertwasser's paintings as inspiration lately so...... i feel a project coming on.