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... I love vast stretches of sea and sky, I feel I am on the edge of something, an anticipation hangs between, betwixt sea and sky...   
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 ...good to be back after mysteriously being locked out of my own blog... I have been reflecting upon themes and techniques which have been at my core prior to and at the outset of art college adventures, which reduce down to organic form, traditional  techniques and exploring processes. New work embraces re-examining northern textile industrial heritage set within the Pennine regions of Yorkshire and Lancashire .  Within this, is how the changing face of industry has impaired our familiar visual reference. MY response is to pay homage to L.S. Lowry's imagined Lancashire urban landscapes- which are inherent  with my own Lancashire heritage , and create my own re-imagined urban and rural landscape.  Fine art print and textile techniques such as hand felted fleece, new and vintage cloths are layered with textile techniques and process using stitch to draw together a commonality within textile narratives.
re-visiting early sample for  my masters degree research and development ( Curating Science at The University of Leeds),  preparing to move on to art practice development and thoughts of preparing a PhD application, to focus my attention of how to develop my academic research and creative practice 
  last couple of days of summer quiet study at The University of Leeds, a couple of my quiet places during the days empty of students ...
  thoughts of summer spent in North Cumbria
  Together and Apar t , Letters from lockdown, Covid 19, 2020. materials and application:  reclaimed industrial felt,  hand-made dry felt, paper, paint, text, hand stitch;    hidden within the letter are samples relating to my Masters Practice exhibition work.   I was inspired to write a message to myself, that to stand firm against political  whitewashing, that we, each citizen should be seen and heard, that each life matters.     Hidden within our arduous challenges, there is strength in kindness, of the individual , and even greater as a united collective.  A local artist and community exhibition, recalling our personal and collective experience of the pandemic. Together and Apart , 10 - 20 June 2021 Former Market Hall, Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AE open times to be confirmed 

'Together and Apart' letters From Lockdown

  ' Together and Apart'   Letters from lockdown covid 19,   A visual exhibition of individual creative responses to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, giving an a n opportunity to connect, share and be inspired by the collective experience. 10-20 June  2021  Former Market Hall, Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AE opening times to be arranged