The Book: I can’t draw…

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I CANT DRAW…ART FOR BEGINNERS #01  WAYS OF LOOKING                              (364 PAGES! packed with pictures to inspire)
10 weeks x 2 hours on a Tuesday in a village hall…Follow Hannah’s joyous and unique approach to inspiring creativity in others.”The joy jumps off every page… a very, very exciting book.”

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A rich and stimulating visual journey for adults of all ages interested in doing something in Art. For those of you who have never drawn before, painted a long time ago at school, were told they couldn’t draw or shouldn’t do Art. For anyone who wants to get bolder and looser, for anyone who wants to see if they can. For all the many adults who are really scared, but dare to try, for those who want to have some fun!

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BLOG: Odd Plastic Finds

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I’ve been re-filing my 25 year collections of plastic things I used as props in my 3d illustrations; mini worlds, which were photographed with great shadows and atmosphere, like small theatre stages…I reduced 35 numbered boxes down to 13, sigh. It was hard to give away my 15 fruit ice buckets but I kept a little plastic fruit.

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BLOG: Curious Plastic Finds

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You never know what you can find in that box, what can inspire an idea…

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BLOG: A life in a box

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A dear friend gave me her carefully washed, sorted and dried collection of mostly plastic bits, with relief to find me who would be thrilled to receive, her 40 year old collection of good and useful things. I was charmed by the sorting of such hoards which I shall surely use…one day in a seascape or chandelier or collage somehow.

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BLOG: Italian beach finds

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Interesting to see what you find on beaches in hot countries…jolly beach-play colours, baby blue colour tops for the water bottles and red Peroni Beer bottle tops of course…from a small sandy beach in Puglia.

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BLOG: Book Finds

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Lots of books inspire…illustrations or words or subject: I loved the Ant and Bee books…

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BLOG: Fruit+Vegetable Ceramics

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I used to have a huuuuge collection of 1950′s salt and pepper pots, fruit shaped jam pots for the teatime table, fruit baskets and citrus jugs…some disintegrated in the cellar…

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BLOG: Small Food Finds

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Looking through my boxes…I always loved styling my dolls house food…

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BLOG: Studio Sorting

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Now there’ll be a lot of things to show as I sort my studio shelves…

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BLOG: Rhubarb Pie Dish

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Time to make Rhubarb Pie; inspired after coming across my American Fruit Cards, seeing this vibrant pink Early Rhubarb in London, and receiving this fabulous Pie Set for Christmas. FALCON Enamelware established 1920. A classic product thoughtfully represented with seductive honesty. Great Packaging by Morse Studio. I just love to open the box and look and dream of pies… just when I’d given up trawling the markets for unchipped pie dishes. http://www.falconenamelware.com

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BLOG: A Toft in The British Museum!

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Just in London…saw Grayson Perry: The Tomb of a Craftsman at The British Museum…one of the most fascinating exhibitions I’ve seen in a while. A good marketing idea for the BM…more than the expected Egypt. Perry had selected his objects made by unknown men and women from their collection…a chance to see things you didn’t know were there…and see how they inspired or related to his own way of looking. He writes so clearly. What an opportunity to get inside a living artists’ head. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/grayson_perry.aspx

Look! A Toft’s ceramic plate was there too. http://www.thepotteries.org/potters/toft.htm

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