I know I’ve posted this blog before, but I’m STILL looking!

I would love to find someone who would be interested in being my doodle pen-pal; the way I see it is it being like writing letters but replacing the letters with a doodle. It would be a kind of conversation in artwork. I think it could be a really fastinating project, with some interesting work to come out of it. I think having an exhibition showing the whole ‘conversation’ would be great - of course, this conversation could carry on for maybe years if we both enjoyed it & were inspired by each others work.

I imagine the work to be anything that you want it to be - a photograph, a few lines on a scrap of paper, a more substantial piece of work… but I do feel that its important that it’s a conversation, & that the work you post to the other person would be in some way a reaction to whatever they had last sent to you. Even adding to what they had sent you.

Is anyone out there interested? I really think it could be a very exciting thing to do so get in touch if you think you’d like to take part.

Wow! A friend of mine visited L.A. earlier on in the year & showed me some images of this place yesterday. They’ve totally jammed up lots of my head space since then. It’s a place called Watts Towers, in L.A., it was constructed by a man called Simon Rodia between 1921 & 1955. He built it all by himself out of steel & concrete, with no help & no scaffolding! The tallest tower is nearly 100 feet tall.

I love it so much. The shapes & colors & the doodley freeness of it really exites me. It’s like he’s drawn lines in the air with the steel & concrete, & coloured it in with ceramic fragments & glass. I absolutelly have to go there one day.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Watts_Towers.html/cid_1136346248_watts_towers_front.html
I hope that link works…

Hello all spacefruit fans.

A couple of things to mention.

Firstly a MASSIVE thankyou to everyone who came to my open studio. I met some really wonderful people & you were all so kind & said such loveley things about my work. I even sold some stuff!!!

Secondly, I have an exhibition at the Architechture Centre in Bristol throughout July & August. It’s nect door to the Arnolfini so if anybody’s over that way, pop in & have a look! It’s an exhibition of my recycled plastic jewellery, including some new bits & bobs.

& thirdly another date for your diaries, I’ll be taking part in the Hidden Art Cornwall design fair at Godolphin House near Helston over the August Bank Holiday. There will be loads of exiteing work for sale (just check out the hiddenart cornwall website to see for yourselves: www.hiddenartcornwall.co.uk)

Wow, the open studios Cornwall is now over, PHEW! It was totally exhausting but really positive, I met loads of great people & sold some work. I don’t get many chances to meet the people who actually buy my work as I sell most of it either via galleries or off my website.

A MASSIVE thankyou if you turned up at my studio over the past 9 days. It was a really positive experience & I got really good feedback on the new work I’ve been doing (not on my wewbsite). & now I’m looking foreward to my exhibition at the Architecture Centre in Bristol throughout July & August.

I just want to put up a picture of a tree I really love. I don’t know what it’s called but it’s a gorjeous colour & I love the round leaves. It’s in my landlord/lady’s garden in the wild bit outside my window. When I was a postlady there was one in particular in somebody’s garden that I delivered mail to that made my day, every day, throughout that really hot summer a couple of years back.

& here are my mange-tous & poor blue who is still ill!

Well we all somehow managed to be ready just in time with milly-seconds to spare. It’s been a full on few weeks getting ready for last night & the next 9 (8 now) days but we did it! Hooray for us at Krowji.

The weather couldn’t have been much worse without us being in a hurricane zone, & it put some people off but not everybody, & the mulled wine flowed (yum) & the mice pies crumbled (mostly on my floor it seems!) & things were admired & bought… so it wasn’t all a disaster.

By the end of the night everyone had these slightly (or not so slightly come to think of it) insane looks in their eyes with the exhaustion. (& wine) But it was greeeeat & I’m sure we’ll do it all again in the nearish future.

Here’s a picture of my studio & also of a jolly jiggedy band that turned up in the foyer ( great word, foyer) this morning out of the blue to have a practice! There was a guy on a drum that seemed to make my whole room vibrate!