The recent unexpected sunshine has brought with it the temptation to walk rather than work; it seems a shame to sit at a desk when the w...

August over half way through already! I am sure by now all my readers will have deserted me in my absence but for anyone still out there...

      Around this time forty years ago, I graduated from art college. I had studied textile design at The Manchester School of Art and D...

From "An Illustrated Address Book" My garden is looking more like a jungle at the moment; every possible place is crammed wit...

A multitude of packages arriving on my doorstep recently, each one containing art materials. I decided it was high time to replenish m...

On Saturday we put the clocks forward, "Spring forward, fall back" is how we remember it. We have had a few days of spring suns...

Earlier in February we visited The John Rylands Library in Manchester to see The Tregaskis Collection- a unique collection of bea...