Birdy - Shelter

My favourite tune of the moment.  Delicious!!

cartolina app

Just bought the update to the cartolina app.  I have blogged about this before because it is one of my favourite apps (and i have a lot!) and this little add-on is well worth 59p.  Now who should be the first lucky recipient .....?

glyndwr university degree show 2011

I visited the degree show yesterday in Wrexham.  In this post i am just going to post some photos of the Fine Art students.  There were not many graduates so they had a lot of space to showcase their work ... lucky students!  Overall, i really enjoyed the work ... it was thought provoking, beautiful (as in Kristian Rees-Dyke's paintings) and stimulating.  Olly Stephen made me smile with his crazy wall of writings, and Jaime Kelly's work was stunning.  The cardigans dipped in slip and fired in the kiln were exquisite and very skillfully made.

Kristian Rees-Dykes

Olly Stephen

Jaime Kelly

cardigans dipped in slip

wire drawings

Lucy Wickstead

Nicola McDonald

Nora Fok

It was such a beautiful morning that i was very tempted to sit out in the garden ... but i made the decision to go to Ruthin Craft Centre to see an exhibition of Nora Fok  work ... and i definitely made the right decision.  It is really breathtaking ... in complexity, colour, skill and creativity.  Each piece is incredibly beautiful, strong yet fragile.  I had to take photos with my phone ... so they are not the best quality ... 

Glyndwr Degree Art Show 2010 part 2

Found this great video on youtube about the degree show last year.  Had been feeling that i was unable to give a good representation of the show with my few photos ... but lucy has made a very comprehensive little film!  I am glad i found this just before this year's show opens tomorrow

Carys Davies

Carys Davies is the studio manager for Edmund de Waal.  This should be praise enough but her work transcends this role.  She was an engineer in her earlier life and made a conscious decision to follow another path.  She talks about Manorbier Beach on her website, and as this is an area where i grew up ... in fact i was there very recently ... i feel i really understand her love of the beach ... the smells, sounds, and treasures that you find.

writing and stacking

colourful ceramics

I love these colourful cups and bowls from Samantha Robinson from Australia.  As is probably obvious from my blog ceramics is one of my passions and i find it very difficult to walk past a little treasure such as these.  I always use everything i buy ... that is surely the pleasure of owning something ... and i would love to own a few of these.  I am not sure if she sells her work in the UK ... a little bit of research is needed!

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