I adore the colour orange; the colour of autumn - pumpkins, golden leaves, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, the last tomato in the green house - and the last rose of summer. It's the colour of apricots, mangoes and sweet potatoes; urban foxes,…
This is an edited version of the talk I gave at The Norfolk Makers Festival in February 2019. It's quite long and there aren't any nice pictures. A few months ago I passed a shop window display made up almost…
"Are you coming out to play?" When was the last time anyone asked you that? I'm guessing it was some time ago, when you were very young. This question is usually delivered by someone with grubby hands and bruised legs. It…
Can I ask you a personal question? How's your relationship with colour these days? Does your heart sing, or skip a beat, when you catch a glimpse of an unexpected colour combination? If it does; Hooray! Congratulations....I'm so happy for…
“Perhaps creativity’s greatest mercy is this: By completely absorbing our attention for a short and magical spell, it can relieve us temporarily from the dreadful burden of being who we are. Best of all, at the end of your creative…
Do you find the subject of natural dyeing fascinating - but also a little strange and mysterious? Unlike the neat little sachets of Dylon they seem to hold a strange alchemy requiring specialist knowledge that can only be gained through…