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Master Class
I am a great believer in learning from other artists. When you copy an artwork (or shall we say translate it?) you absorb many lessons that you just don't get from copying a photograph. This is the panel a student made at my studio based on Tamara De...
Mindfulness & Sketching Stained Glass
Everyone should have a room of one’s own, Virginia Woolf said. So back in 2014 we built an outdoor Dojo for my husband, James, to practice his Tai Chi in and to store his large collection of practice weapons – swords, spears, staffs and guandao (an alarming spear with a curved blade on one end).
Birds of Paradise
Commissions come in all shapes and sizes and take me down artistic routes I hadn't considered before. Now I love birds in branches and I have made quite a few windows featuring our native species in various seasons. But I had never considered a window with...
Fifteen years of Open Studios
It was back in 2002 that I first took part in the Surrey Artists Open Studios. The scheme was in its infancy with 150 artists participating. Both visitors and artists have increased in number over the years and much of its success is due to the insight that punters...
Working Lunch…
It is good to get out and about. I had a day in Oxford with my dad in November. He had been invited to an exhibition because he was writing an article about Patrice Moor for On The Hill. I met him at the Ashmolean Museum where I was sketching the Triumph of Chastity...
Memorial for Haslemere Librarian
The small memorial panel for Greta Turner has been commissioned by Haslemere Museum. Greta worked as a voluntary librarian, researcher and archivist for over thirty years. It will be my third commission for the Museum. Here you can see the cartoon in progress....
Poppies at Westminster
Last November I took my Poppy panel to St Margaret's in Westminster for a Remembrance service. It is not quite Westminster Abbey but I might have implied it was to a few people. When I created my stained glass commemoration for the artists and poets who fought in...
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