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I thought for this post I would share with you the work of the gorgeously talented Margie Doyle ( who just so happens to be my niece.)

Margie studied Fine Arts at  University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia and after graduating in 2016, started experimenting with block printing and fell in love with the whole process.

I asked Margie what made her fall in love with block printing…”the meditative process of carving where I completely lose myself in it for hours and then the excitement of printing and peeling the paper off the block. I love that each print turns out differently with the textures that the ink creates.”

[Read more…] about MargieJD Studio

What a very surreal time we are having at the moment. Here in New Zealand we are all on lockdown except for essential services like grocery stores, pharmacies and medical centres. Non essential travel is frowned upon…even travelling 3kms to my studio to work with the door locked isn’t allowed.

So with all this time on my hands at home and unable to weave, I decided to do some spinning for the first time in over 20 years. I have a beautiful spinning wheel that originally belonged to my sister then my mum. [Read more…] about Spinning Revisited.