Sojourner

  Overwintering or dead? It's not always easy to tell in the middle of winter. It isn't until spring comes along and everything star...

Are you prickly to deal with? What is someone else's experience of you? That latter question was one I read in a blog post this week. Wh...

I've been working on a new set of pieces - mainly acrylic, but also with some collage (in the deep, deep layers!) acrylic paint pens, an...

  The seed is cosy and comfortable underground, but if it doesn't stretch to reach the light, it never grows, it just rots. This page st...

So I got into the groove (some might call it a mini obsession, but what do they know?) and carved some more Lino plates to make more cards. ...

I had fun last night carving a new block for my mini printing press. Before I've done prints that are basically outlines that I then col...

  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...