Lantern making

In march I went to Liverpool to learn how to make lanterns with the Liverpool lantern company. Courtesy of Art and culture organization Metal. Four artists were picked to go do the course and then over the summer work with school children making sculptural lanterns for the "Upon this rock" lantern parade in September . It's been a great experience so far and I'm really excited about the soon to be here parade !

New project might take some time to finish though !

I've just bought a land rover 3 series older than me for not many £s it may take a while but hopefully soon we'll have the ol girl on the road !

Water feature being created

My dad Owen has been busy this afternoon making a lot of noise and sparks fly, cutting one of the water tanks for the show garden.

Show garden studio making progress

I really feel like we're getting somewhere now , we built the end of the hut this morning and then started cutting out the windows.we also made one of the window boxes from the potato seed trays , I'm loving how the vintage picture frames look with the window box !

Boxes and nic nac's

Founds lots of interesting bits and bobs today at the car boot , horse shoe boxes , embroidery silks of wild flowers , stamps , Virgin Mary statue . And a really cool cast iron star , happy way to spend my birthday pennies and pounds !

A new home for two of my pieces

A lovely couple came yesterday to see my work and bought two pieces , my latest painting "Last night" and a drawing I have been reluctant to part with for a long time. So with the framing done they're off to their new home.

Abstract postcard workshop

I've had a brilliant time at Hampton vale college today, working with a mixed age group creating postcards of Peterborough . Yesterday they went into Peterborough centre and took some incredible shots of Central Park , rubbings and collected leaves and collage materials. Along their travels which we used today to create abstract postcards of Peterborough - so colorful and vibrant !