It’s still only February, but here in my little patch of Norfolk there are signs of spring everywhere. We’ve had a very mild, very wet winter. Often it doesn’t start to feel like spring here until the end of March, and occasionally it will even be May before…
If there’s one thing that stands in the way of being creative more than anything else, it’s perfectionism. That horrible feeling that we’re going to get it wrong so often prevents us from even trying. We worry ourselves into paralysis, to afraid to make the first mark, the…
The idea of a sense of place, and how it differs to a sense of belonging, is a theme I’ve written about before. It was about 3 years ago, when I was researching Dorothy Caldwell and her work as part of a foundation course in textiles, when I…
It seem like an unpromising start to looking inspiration in winter colours for a creative project. Where you are it might be snowy. Here, it is dreary and bleak, muddy, cold and wet. At a first glance, everything is drab and shades of grey and mud. However, taking…