There's a lot said about art therapy and how it helps those in mental and/or physical pain, but what about those who already create, the...

I first saw Jenny's work in Ruthin craft centre and it was love at first sight, whenever we visited I'd make a bee line for the shop, and...

On one of my wanderings around the internet I found a fascinating article about the Abramtsevo, an art centre just outside Moscow. I'd...

I've been thinking about the sea quite a bit just recently, I'm missing it, and this led me to thoughts of seashells. I've had a few...

Superbly drawn and full of dynamic movement, this is just fantastic! Kimono shaped comforter, Edo period, 19th century, indigo dyeing,...

It's August, it's time for Summer School with Make It In design. I've taken this twice before, it's always challenging and great fun and...

Horace Walpole proposed this 'new' word in 1754 – after reading The three princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were...

It's a New Year and January looks like this - a new collection - and some of these and a couple of variations have already been submitted...

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Right time, right place, fulfilling a need and getting a life of it's own, becoming...

Some of you may have noticed I've been revamping the website and have been through several transitions. The first move was to update my...

Gosh, it's the second week of October and I bet you're all wondering where I've been since my last post ...well I've been...

I love a bit of Bauhaus, and I do so love a bit of ballet, and Oskar Schlemmer embraced both in his costume designs and choreography....

Now and again I buy a magazine, not any magazine but something inspiring like Selvedge, Embroidery, Ceramics Review or Crafts. In the...

I'm sitting in my work room listening to Lark ascending - Vaughan Williams at his most sublime - and looking for inspiring images of...

So picking up the theme of inspiring artists – I still have quite a few to add to my vast and ever growing list – here are two I knew...