It's already the final week!

It's the last week of the Bucks Open Studios event. 

Find out where I find inspiration, watch live pet portraiture and make (or choose colours for) your own needle-felted leaf for the visitors tree!

Come for tea (there's cake too) and enjoy my latest work. My studio is open for two more days this week and throughout the weekend: Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 7pm, Saturday 11am - 7pm & Sunday 11am - 6pm 

Colourful collection of needle felted leaves representing visitors to the studio

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Happy New Year - Happy New Studio!

After enjoying a highly indulgent family Christmas (one too many mince pies!), I have spent the days leading up to the New Year festivities adding the finishing touches to my newly renovated home studio!

After sanding the original floor boards, I decided to finish them with a richly coloured varnish and I think the flooring contrasts beautifully with the light green paintwork.

'And which carpenter did you use?', I hear you ask. Well, in fact the storage shelves, work table and pegboards have all been hand-built and installed by my husband who, due to his new-found hobby, is now fondly known as DIY-Dave!

Over the coming weeks, I''ll be putting up pictures and making the studio work both creatively and practically, for optimal creative production! It will be a space that will evolve with me I'm sure.

The painting that will have pride of place over the fireplace, is a watercolour still-life painted by my great-grandmother Mira Elizabeth Bateson when she was 15 years old. It's wonderful to have one of her paintings, confirming the source of my artistic roots!