Yesterday I treated myself to a trip to the Wallace Collection to see the Henry Moore Helmet Head exhibition. Moore apparently went to the Wallace Collection to study and draw the helmets in the Collection’s armour exhibitions. He worked on these ideas throughout his life. I only like three elements of Moore’s work; his drawings […]
Last weekend I went to a wonderful workshop with Megan Ivy Griffiths. Megan is an illustrator who discovered embroidery and decided it was the medium she wanted to work in. Perhaps this is the reason that her work is so small. She is used to working in a scale which fits books. The result of […]
I am so sorry that there has been such a gap in between my posts. Some of this has been because I have been posting on Instagram quite a bit. If you want to follow me there search for Ann Rippin or #pomegranatestudio. This will let you see work in progress. I am back […]
There was a piece on the news a couple of weeks ago about the negative impact of the over-fifties watching more than three and a half hours of television a day. It seems that over these three and a half hours people became more forgetful. I was never much of a social scientist, but even I […]
For some time I have wondered about doing a pictorial blog, and so this is an experiment using pages from my little ideas notebook. I am going to start with a bit of a summary in case my writing is too hard to decipher, but after that it is notebook pages. Any feedback gratefully […]
Every year I make a doll on New Year’s Day. I have a few rules. It must be made from scratch and it must be completed in a single day. It also has to say something about the year that I have had or the year I want. This year I broke the rules […]
I have been blogging for a while now and so I don’t quite remember if I have blogged before about taking joy in our work. Joy in work has been a big thing for me for years. I have long been interested in William Morris. I am fascinated by his contradictions. He was a life-long […]
A couple of weeks ago the medieval historian and I went to the Djangoly Gallery at the Lakeside Gallery at the University of Nottingham and saw an exhibition of work called ‘Space Light Colour’ by Rana Begum. She makes large work playing with the three elements in the title: Space, light and colour. The work […]
My bear making exploits continue. This Belle. She has a guilty secret which is that her body is not made of old patchwork too tatty to do anything with other to be cut up. It is actually a printed, commercially produced quilt which I bought for a fiver in a charity shop. Now, I, in […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a small, experimental, try-out stand at a tone-y sort of textile fair to promote my workshops at Pomegranate Studio. I am still not sure if it generated any business, but it was a good source of feedback. I was advertising my Blinged-up Boro workshop and took along a […]
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