ACID NATURALS

I openly admit to being a bit of a hard core colour junkie, I just can't help myself! A wold without colour is no world for me. But it is nice to come across these colours in the wild... these were found in a windswept front garden in Lerwick port in the Shetland Islands last year, and have influenced my colour story for these three new hand woven pieces. When people refer to 'natural colour pallets' it usually means beige beige beige.... but no, not me! This is my Natural collection! To follow will be 'Shetland Harbour' with graphic, utilitarian, industrial tones, and ' Dry stone wall' with accents of moss, lichens and barnacles.

And is it just me, or does my loom look happy? Maybe it's a colour junkie too?!

I see in weave...

A new month, a new year, even a new day...I am designing and seeing inspirations for shape and pattern everywhere. I love grids, repeats, blocks and stripes. I like boldness, edges, graphic shapes and perspective. I cannot wait to get to the sample length on my current warp and have a little play!!

The march of Inspiration.

I am the luckiest girl! To go on my favourite bank holiday walk and discover such hidden beauties as these! By the Thames, over Tower bridge and part the Tower of London, following the river to St Pauls Cathedral and over the walkway to the Tate modern, to pop in to see the new turbine hall instillation. Then past the Globe theatre and on to Borough Market, and then up the back streets past prostitutes graveyards and magnificent Graffiti. All in under an hour!

The importance of being a sketchbook!

It's a new year and a time for new diaries, sketchbooks, calendars and notebooks....for me anyway. My new year stationary is always a monumental excitement to me! So laden with potential and creativity for the year. These books catalogue a year of ideas, projects, concepts and memories!

Here's some I found from the Tim Walker exhibition at the Design Museum a couple of years ago, a free spirited and and unselfconscious dialogue between mind, hear and unrefined inspiration!

I am dedicating 2011 to intense creativity, and that starts in my sketchbooks....coming soon!!