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Shed Stories #6 ‘I went to blow the fire aflame’
This year Easter, and the changing of the clocks to British summertime coincided, and to celebrate this arrival of spring, Mike and Seren and I cooked our supper over the fire in the garden and drank our first Pimms of the year! It was not a balmy evening (bloomin’ cold!) and the Pimms was probably a bit premature but it was lovely to sit out by the fire and listen to the birds singing their evening chorus and the owls calling out to one another as they began their twilight forays. It certainly felt like a beginning of better weather and times outdoors to come.
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Shed Stories #5 ‘Our House’
So St David’s day, March hares and the 1st of March are upon us. Usually February has a day or two at least where we can see and feel the promise of warmth and spring but this year it has continued January’s theme of wet and grey! But, nonetheless, the primroses are lifting our hearts with their gentle kindness in the banks and the daffodils are already trumpeting golden tunes to the skies. However, the real flowering champion of this past week or so has to be the blackthorn, which is heavily laden with its frothing foam of blossom. Even in the dullest days it brightens the hedges but on the rare moments when the evening sun breaks through the gloom the blossom lights up like a beacon of unutterable beauty and hope.
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Shed Stories #4 ‘Drive the Cold Winter Away’
It is almost Imbolc, the Celtic festival of spring, which is a time of the re-emergence of life after the hiatus of winter. We know that there may still be bad weather to come but we cannot help but be stirred by the fact that the song thrush is singing again, the snowdrops are well and truly out and the catkins are beginning to dangle!
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Shed Stories #3 ‘A Bustle in your Hedgerow’
It is early January and it feels as if we have been submitted to nothing but rain and greyness for weeks on end now. But this morning, whilst walking the dog, the sun made a weak and watery appearance. It was as welcome and beatific, as the smile from a beautiful and much loved old grandmother, and like a glimmer of reassurance that good things will surely come.
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Shed Stories #2 ‘Rosehip November’
November is traditionally one of my busiest months of the year and I’m sure it will be the case for many craftspeople, artists and galleries caught up in the maelstrom that is the run up to Christmas.
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Shed Stories #1 ‘It was twenty years ago today’
Well, it’s ever so slightly over twenty years on from the launch of my career as a stained glass illustrator, and from the moment our second child, Dougal started school! So it seems an appropriate time to take stock and begin writing a monthly blog for all you lovely subscribers and followers old and new. If only I’d done it years ago!!
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Haymakers Exhibition
From 25th April – 19th June 2022 I shall once again be exhibiting my work at the very lovely Haymakers Gallery in Hay on Wye.
Countryfile Again!
On April 17th, Easter Sunday I will, once again, be appearing on BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ programme. I won’t be meeting any presenters this time but instead am the subject of a mini film or ‘postcard’ within the programme which is a Herefordshire Easter special.
Stained Glass Talk at Twenty Twenty Gallery
On Saturday 20th August I will be giving a short talk about my stained glass work alongside my husband, Mike who will be talking about his chairmaking. This will take place at Twenty Twenty Gallery in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. It will coincide with the opening of a wonderful landscape exhibition which we are both taking part in.
In the talk I will particularly be paying attention to themes and inspirations but I will also talk about my painting technique and how that has developed for this particular exhibition.
