Sojourner

  So I've been making more book forms from Making Handmade Books . Here we have the flag book, piano hinge, winged book, tied binding, o...

Sometimes less is more. I've been watching the Sky portrait artist of the year vids on YouTube and feeling inspired and intimidated in e...

  I thought it would be a fun project to work my way through Making Handmade Books  by Alisa Golden. I've made several books out of it b...

To be heard you need to speak up, maybe several times.  It's no good hoping that people know what you're thinking. If you want to be...

A suggestion can be enough for us to fill in the details - but are they correct? Once I painted on the black lines, I couldn't help but ...

Wear the right shoes. We all know when we are wearing the wrong shoes - when they pinch, rub, and are just darned uncomfortable. This might ...

  I've gradually been working on a new series of mixed-media pieces. They seem to be coming out with larger blocks of colour than my pre...

From drought to deluge. This page felt very stormy to me and that's how the weather has been recently. We've been praying for rain, ...

What vibes are you sending?  We all send out signals, whether we realise it or not. Our body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice...

Better to lower expectations and then over-deliver than to fail to live up to them.  In the bookshop I work in we tell people that the deliv...