I really don’t like the fact that I find myself drawn towards my phone all the time, but I think it’s the crazy times we live in. There’s the constant temptation to check out what new disaster has befallen the world… or maybe a puppy has made best friends with a duck! To help me …
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Making Friday: Dots agains doomscrolling
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Making Friday: Papercutting at the Norval
So many Skinny laMinx designs are based on papercuts. Pincushion, Flowerfields, Rough Cuts, Stig – they all started with a sketch, some paper and a sharp little knife. I haven’t been doing much paper cutting lately though, and I really miss it, so when I was invited to spend Garden Day 2020 in the Sculpture …
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Making Friday: #myapartmentsafari Challenge
Let’s go on safari… while we’re stuck inside our homes.
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Making Friday: My Apartment Safari
“What if our real problem was not so much that we are not allowed to go anywhere – but that we don’t how to make the most of what is already to hand?” -Alain de Botton
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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Making Friday: Tiled patterns
I’ve been spending time in the studio preparing for the Ace Camp I’m teaching in Porto next week, carving small 3cm stamps for the students to explore the heck out of. Here are the ones I’ve made, and although I have a vague sense of what kinds of patterns they might make, I’ve held back …
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Wabi Sabi again
Oh bugger. I had just been thinking I should take return a beautiful midcentury West German vase to our home, when I moved a fan and knocked it off the bookshelf. Of course I couldn’t just chuck it in the bin. It’s been around longer than I have, so with the help of sellotape and …
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Making Friday: Why good style is generosity
I took a sneaky snap of a stylish looking person while having a morning coffee, and then, because I enjoyed her look so much, I spent my Making Friday studio time doing a whole heap of little sketches and paintings inspired by that snap. And this is exactly why I called one of my Pinterest …
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History lesson: Pincushion Protea
Just look at all the things our Pincushion design has appeared on over the years!
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