The Potters’ Market

[Update: The Potters’ Market has been cancelled for May 31, 2015, due to a forecast of strong wind gusts, cold and more rain….

Amy Tyler: the creative process

Amy Tyler’s talk on Sunday at Ontario Handweavers and Spinners biennial conference gave me pause to reassess my creative process. For a brief…

It was a big craft weekend. Dyeing fibre with mountain-ash leaves was not our only project. While Danny developed a new design for…

A few weeks ago I posted about handspinning outside the comfort zone. I set out to create some lively yarn concentrating on reds,…

Red is outside my comfort zone. I created these skeins of handspun yarn over the past week. I have been working from photographs,…

Last night we went to see a lecture on colour by American artist Kaffe Fassett, famous for fabric and other decorative designs. I…

In my new schedule, Thursday is photo blog day. However, I have more essays to post from last week’s photography course, so we…

I have just finished a course in travel and landscape photography with Rob Stimpson at Haliburton School of the Arts, Fleming College. It…