This weekend I went to see Martha Cole and her latest work at an open house in Gloria Daly's studio. Martha had taught a book making...

Now that i have sent this semester's module of work to the UK for assessment it is time to clean up my studio. All of the left over yarn...

This is another dialogue i have going on with a Douglas-fir and an arbutus. I staked out under these 2 trees a grid of round knit and...

Dialogue 2 is about a conversation with a tree using a textile. I have been doing lots of sampling. First I buried a piece of cloth under...

I have been developing my response to the composted cloth. After I found it was disintegrating, I put a backing cloth behind it - a small...

As part of my studies I am working with different ways the natural environment can leave its mark on textiles. I am calling each of these...

This semester with my BA (Hons) studies I am taking the Personal Specialism module, which is all about learning how to write a proposal...

When I got back from the UK some work I had produced for my BA(Hons) studies with JC School of Textile Arts, I put it out in the garden....

Here is an image of my design wall at an early stage of my Art Deco study. I grouped images according to influences on the movement,...

This semester I am doing the Art History: 20th & 21st Century module with the JC School of Textile Arts. I have chosen to study the Art...

I just got word the Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts has started to set up their web site, http://www.jctextilearts.com/ This will...

I've been very busy this past week working at finishing off this semester's module for my BA(Hons) studies. This semester I did...

Yikes it is cold here. A couple of nights ago I was walking from our studio in the woods down the mountain to the dye studio. My forehead...

Don't Abandon Me Another artist I looked at in my essay was Louise Bourgeois. A vital part of her human form sculptures in cloth is they...

Christian Boltanski is another artist who works with cloth and the body. I wrote about his work in my essay too.'Art can only be made if...

I have returned to earth now that I have completed an essay for the Opus BA module I am doing this semester. What a journey. I learnt...

The Opus BA module I am doing this semester is Visual Studies where the whole focus is on drawing the human form. We are advised to take...

This summer I am working on the Visual Studies module of the Opus BA(Hons) programme I am enrolled in. It is highly recommened one takes...