For a very long time I have longed to make a self portrait...Oh but "you cannot do that" said that little voice, very loudly, in my head!! To the rescue came my cousin Gillian, who had devised this fabulous way of portrait playing, sort of...really like nothing I had...

Well I did it…the portrait is done, it hangs at the Bridgetown Pottery & Restaurant, along with 92 others. There is a wide variety of styles and medium amongst those 93 portraits. Maybe an unusual way of having the “Archie”, which has been happening...

Play with dye on paper…making lovely little pictures, which we will stitch into to make landscapes, gardens, individual flowers…whatever comes will be embellished with beautiful silk threads. Will be a full day. All materials supplied. Morning...

For many years I have looked, longingly, at the portraits of other artists…wishing I could do that. Spending much time studying the work…sometimes not studying but wondering what possessed them to do it this way or that. Some of them...

Often I sit and look at the trees…since childhood I have loved to watch trees, the leaves changing directions to lessen the surface area exposed to the sun. Watching the shadows, sometimes thin, leaf shape shadows cast by overhead sun…later in the day long...