Thursday, June 11, 2009

It's been such a long time since I posted everyone's probably gone away and is looking elsewhere. Pushed into writing something today as we had Maggie Grey at the Oxford Guild yesterday evening. She's so inspiring. Reminds me so much of Val Campbell-Harding who was my totally inspirational City and Guilds tutor at Urchfont many years ago. I did several C&G courses with Val, the last one finishing just a few months before she died. Maggie is just the same - loads of wonderful inspiring suggestions thrown at you until all you want to do is get home to try and do some of them! Just at the moment I have some rather damp felt drying ready to start stitching into. I'll let you know if it works/how it works in the next few days.

Apart from that, I took part in Oxfordshire Art Weeks again this year. We had masses of visitors (I did it with two others - a ceramic sculptor and a potter) over three days and it was great, very very tiring though! Not huge sales but a lot of nice comments and enough to keep me at it.

Next week off to Windsor to see what's going on there and whether the Diploma is being axed as I have heard. Really want to do it starting September 2010 but may have left it too late!