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earth painting

last night i was experimenting...using the local earth as a paint... I also used Chalice Well water from a recent trip to Glastonbury... something so simple and beautiful about just using what is close by...and painting the local landscape...although it's strange it's two places in one... I can feel that it's Kelston Roundhill near Bath but it also feels like Mount Caburn back in Sussex.... maybe where my soul is , still rooted where I was born...but exploring the new...

misty morning

my spring flowers are blooming

research

"Play is the highest form of research." 

-Albert Einstein

                   Totally up for doing some intense research.... SUP board is coming back out to play....

Yay!

Spike Island Open Studios

2016 29 April to 2 May

Spike Print Studio is celebrating 40 years! 

A weekend of Art, Performance, Food and Fun!

River Adventures

www.riveradventures.co.uk

River Adventures! Based around Bath you can book this 1960's cruiser for your own adventure,  a day trip, longer stays, parties, or a short cruise, stop off at The Boathouse for a riverside pub lunch...  Get out there and enjoy the river...it's beautiful and with the buds and blossom here it's just the beginning
... you might notice some of my work onboard :)

Greetings & Salutations

Assortment of handmade greetings cards on their way to Thomas Paine Printing Press in Lewes, Sussex.

Salutation and Greeting to you all!
As You Like It ActV Scene IV The Forest

 Or when JD and Veronica meet in Heathers...classic 90's film

third-eye-vis

III eye VIS Yoga mat bags...with hi-vis for cycling to and from your yoga class, made using up-cycled natural fabrics.
 Now available at Bristols INHOUSE shop at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft.

Third-Eye-Vis is a label that specialises in practical but beautiful hand sewn yoga and running apparel and accessories

ubuntu: iam who i am, because of who we all are

Spring feels like its springing... Chew Valley Lake just outside Bristol

Bude-i-ful

dissolve

hand tinted wood cut, limited edition available here!

cabin porn

cabin porn is a site i came across a few years ago, they've published a book now... isn't this little cabin just perfect!?

this is Norma's floating store in the 70's British Columbia. pic taken from Shelter Blog

moon river

>drawing on a boat at night<

Ra !

Ra Paulette has created these carved cave houses in the desert in New Mexico. He works with hand tools such as shovels, pick axes and scrapers. It looks like pure mediation to me, what bliss he's created. A temple, a sacred space.

hand chopping but not chopping hands

one of my favourite pastimes...when the sun is shining :)

hand tinting

this wood cut was inspired by building round structures with Tony Wrench, roundhouse pioneer, he is awesome ... This is his guest house which features in Lloyd Kahns (another dude) upcoming book by Shelter publications.

chocolate & tahini

 

This weekend the river flooded the marina and me and my neighbours were marooned for a day. As I watched the river rise and zoom past my kitchen window I mixed up a banana cake. It was one of the cosiest feelings ever, the fire was roaring, the wind was howling, rain lashing and for a moment the sun shone as I whisked the eggs into the sugar mix, mashing up the bananas and adding some flour and cinnamon. The smell of a cake baking is pure comfort.

 Living on a boat makes you feel the weather that little bit more. Your boat becomes a part of you, a bit like a car or bike does...you know what i mean..you give it a name, it has a personality!?! I certainly know when it's raining, when it's cold and how cold before I even get out of bed. Yeah I'm not the best at getting out of bed when there's a frost on the window and my breath turns to mini fog...but there's nothing like having a fire to warm you...and when you can bake a cake and share it everything feels alright.

The cake above is my chocolate and tahini mix...make your usual chocolate sponge and add this delicious frosting... Tahini + Sugar = Halva flavoured Heaven! I decorated with sesame seeds, cocoa powder, and chocolate curls. 

A Tahini Icing

225g cream cheese

160g icing sugar

a good spoonful or two of tahini

pinch of salt
(could add a tsp of cocoa powder for colour, add little more cream cheese if you do)

x peace & cakes x

wild thing

celebrate love

a selection of greeting cards available at Brixi, Brixton Village Market, London.

also a couple in Etsy shop :)

For your Valentine any day of the year

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amazing!

Embrace

detail from my new Etching 'Embrace' printed on Fabriano Artistico, this is huge for an etching 56 x 76cm . It's going to be in my Etsy shop soon...

nights on the boat

still dreaming of the sea...