Tuesday 14 February 2012

Meanwhile, back at the house ...

Box after box was unpacked, resulting in this ...















and this (in an upside-down kind of a way) ...


And now for something completely different.

Dipping into my box of quotable quotes, I picked up this:

"When forced to work within a strict framework
the imagination is taxed to its utmost -
and will produce its richest ideas.
Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl."

T S Eliot

This applies to all sorts of things, really, not just sonnets or haiku. Or picture books. Or novels.

Here is a jug ...

What a plucky little guy (in need of a polish).







Monday 13 February 2012

In the beginning ...

First there was this room ...
















and then there was this room ...
















A room was chosen and it was excellent, but only after much work was undertaken, so that it looked like this ...

 And then it looked like this ...
  






and then like this.


And that was the beginning of a new studio in a new building in a new town in a new year.