SUMMER-AUTUMN '25​

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Hi everyone - happy Autumn 🍁 

Following a rusty but happy start back in January '24 when I reacquainted myself with my art, technical skill and balancing it all with my endometriosis journey, I was overjoyed to win 1st place in BeStillMedia's 'Art Saves Lives' award and this rearranged all of my plans for 2025 massively.

As they say of a dancer, perfecting 'the line' technique and style of my work has become the mission, as it carries my feeling and response to a dancers performance as well as their technique and getting this to reach a consistent quality that I am now really happy with has been very affirming. 

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​Spring-Summer - I spent Spring building an application for and then being awarded a fellowship with Be Still Media in May and then spent the last few months preparing to open with more products than originally intended and building a new studio / micro-gallery space in the ground floor of my house, so that I can hold Open Studio days & create an extra little art-hub here in the Lake District. I’ve been enjoying getting my first sculpture cast both traditionally and digitally, reproduced in 3D software by a great team, which has enabled us to start creating 3D printed affordable versions of my sculptures as well which I'm so excited for and which I’ll be sharing and starting to sell soon. Some first casts will be available end of November/ early December, along with some new jewellery stock and art prints.

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Editorial art books - There’s so much that forms the incredible multi-faceted jewel that is dance and my 'visual language' has been designed and refined to communicate this with technical ability and in great detail and as such, curating the projects in to editorial art publications has become an important way for people to be able to view and even collect the projects. 

I’ve been extending the works from Januarys' award winning project 'Odette - a study of Fumi Kaneko in Swan Lake' and putting the contents of it in to an editorial art book, we're finding binding issues are effecting the quality of the finished product, and I'm so passionate about ensuring this is high quality, so I'm continuing with sourcing and designing ways to present the content, possibly away from traditional binding.

Once established to a quality I'm proud to offer up, every set of works I create will be put in to this format as part of a continuing collection 🖤 🦢

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My socials have been dead as a door nail. This is partially because I have so much to do, but sadly also largely because my right eye suddenly lost a large portion of vision due to what has been diagnosed as a 'very unfortunate' optical occlusion of the nerves behind the eye, ironically, the eye itself is 'perfect' but the nerve damage has 'fogged out' a portion of vision and depth. I've had to spend time and money on specialist care to understand this, and manage it. It's quite triggering to talk about, so I'll likely not mention it much going forward, but if anyone has wondered why my socials are silent as a graveyard, this is why.​

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JEWELLERY & LEATHER PIECES - I've also been working on a little range of OOAK leather bags in collaboration with my fiancé Elliot and my talented friend and jeweller Ruth Claydon - We currently stock a few exclusive pieces by Ruth in the JEWELLERY store, and will soon be adding the first leather pieces for sale. In the meantime, there are a few stunning pieces by Ruth available now, I recommend those seeking a unique jewellery piece, for yourself or as a gift, take a look and check out her own feed at @mothandmagpie

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LINKS & RECOMMENDATIONS​​​​

 

@mothandmagpie Unique ups-cycled jewellery design.

@mick.wilson.artist - One of the best landscape artists I've ever seen.

@andrew.niblett.77 - Raku potter who's empathetic and precious works focus on peace through tangible, remembered history.

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SKETCHING IN CLAY - SCULPTING IN PENCIL - Read more about the work here 

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