I'm about to be disowned...

I've been featured in my first ever Folksy Friday! Alongside the very talented Beautiful Skin, I am honoured. Check it out at the wonderful blog over here.

In other news I have a new tattoo, which I have lusted after for years and been perfecting the designs and colouring for... but, um, my lovely Mum, Liz, who is ever so supportive and whom I could not study or function without has not seen them. And she's not a fanof tattoos, so I am going to leave it optional for you to look mother dear (I can cover it in your presence if you like)! If you do fancy a gander, however, click the jump.

Desk snapshot and current work

Heres my latest desk fiasco:

Remember those long wobbly things? Well they're coming along quite nicely...

 

These are made from beautiful sari silk remnants and woven on a big ol' table loom with faux pearls and chains woven into the fabric. The smaller one has some antique keys and jingly bells stitched in.

Not long now until the collection is finished!

My little fatties...

...are finished! This is one of the pieces I will be entering in the Cork Street Open Exhibition. They all pull out and can be played with!

Roses...

One piece down... ohhh yeah...

More sneak peeks...

These little guys have a bright future ahead of them, and a nice log to live in!

Just a Quickie

Some current maquettes...

Updates and some plugging...

Well, there is a sure lack of recent work on here, but unfortunately its the easter break which means no kilns, studios or indeed much work for me! I have finally finished that essay though and I'm spending my three weeks off in Bristol.

Yesterday I went to see the Alinah Azadeh exhibition currently on in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. If you get the chance GO! It really is something, and the other artist Rosa Nguyen's work is beautiful. I couldn't do it justice writing baout it here, but seriously, set yourself an hour or so and go and see it.

In other news I'm going to give someone very dear to me some serious credit here. Most of you will know that my lovely Scouser is a blacksmith, and if you didn't, he is. He'll hopefully be starting the artist blacksmithing degree in september, but the course he is on now have aranged an exhibitiion at the Salbox gallery and Gaz's work was included, now I'm very, very proud of him and I think he should be too, but hes not a blogger and never will be, hes just not a computer person, hes a blacksmith so essentially a luddite, so I'm going to post his pictures here as soon as I can get my hands on them.

I'm off out today with my sister to test my new Diana Mini camera, I'm very excited about this. Its a beautiful day and I hope you all enjoy it!