It is Insect Week this week 21-27 June 2021. It is an initiative to help us understand the importance of insects by The Royal Entomological Society I love insects, always have done. One of my first books was The Observer’s Book of Common Insects and Spiders and my copy was published in 1966. It is interesting…
Silver (Walter De La Mare 1913) Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver…
I thought I would write about what inspires me and how concepts and ideas come together to create a new piece of work. Dancing with Thieves has been in my mind for a while – I watch magpies outside my studio window every day, they are very sociable birds and I watch them taking chances…