https://www.textilesandlife.com/work daily 1.0 2025-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1556453520589-5W5M1QB8KV7MUYEC2F0V/MIA+Park+City+5S.jpg Work - Reflections, Doha - 27th April 2019 A small part of Doha Bay, immediately to the east of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), is partly encircled by the MIA Park. With only a very light breeze, the seawater in that area was calm enough to reflect the lights from many of the buildings in Doha City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1608563039849-LCNG6BYWBSF1L8LOAJM1/BALANCE.jpg Work - Balance - Ashbocking, Suffolk - 20th December 2020 I decided to call this ‘Balance’ because I think that it highlights the need to balance human requirements with those of the natural environment. I love the comparison between the detailed, natural filigree work of the branches of the tree on the right with the extraordinarily, simple, effective and efficient design of the pylon. And then, of course, there is the sky in the middle; how much is that being influenced now by ‘global warming’? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1609082862898-ZVCNADD3XCLTTPFGTFNU/Books+8C.jpg Work - Cover Designs Memories of Venice and Finland. All hand-made: paper, paint, stencils, die-cuts, collage, collected ephemera, added sketches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1640536351621-LZIZX29KE7LJREGS7BZE/Bora+Bora+au+recif+Tepuoro+S.jpg Work - The Tepuoro Reef, Bora Bora Jacques Boullaire (1893-1972) was a successful French Artist who began his love affair with Tahiti and the other ‘Society’ Islands of French Polynesia during his first visit there from 1937 to 1938. He subsequently made two more visits, firstly from 1949 to 1952 and then from 1965 to 1966. During this total period of some seven years living and working in the Society Islands he produced several thousand drawings, sketches and watercolours - some of which are exhibited here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1644677423010-AVE0K6MY71FFD5BICIG4/Constantin+Guys+1834.jpg Work - Constantin Guys in 1834 - by Léon Noël Constantin Guys (1802-1892) was a Soldier, Journalist and Consummate Sketch Artist. He was born in Vlissingen, Netherlands, on 3rd December 1802, and, at the age of four, he and is family moved, firstly to Calais, and then, in 1816, settled in Paris. At the age of nineteen, He fell out with his father, who he alleges had, at the age of sixty-nine, seduced his sixteen-year-old fiancé! Constantin became an officer in the French Cavalry (Dragoons) in 1825 - leaving in 1830 - having become an accomplished rider with a passion for horses. There is scant evidence about Constantin’s life for the following twelve years, but, in 1843, he became a journalist and artist-in-the-field for The Illustrated London News. For the next sixteen years he travelled widely reporting and sketching events of major importance such as the war in The Crimea. When he started as a journalist, his ability to draw sketches to support his news stories was, to say the least, rudimentary, but he taught himself through a process of trial and error and had, by the end of his journalistic career, proved himself to be extremely accomplished at producing rapid and accurate sketches of the events he was covering. Constantin spent the last twenty years or so of his life in Paris, living in a very modest apartment, and spending many hours every day mingling with the Paris crowd and studying their everyday lives. Then, late each night, he would return to his rooms to sketch, from memory, what he had seen. He must have produced thousands of sketches using pencil, crayon, ink and various washes, but, sadly, the vast majority of these have been lost or destroyed. Apparently, at the time, these sketches sold for extraordinarily modest amounts of money. Constantin was never happier than when he was incognito and just part of the crowd. He hated any attempt to put the spotlight on his artistic talent, and even forced his admirers to agree to refrain from using his name in correspondence. So much so that a very great admirer of his, Charles Baudelaire, wrote ‘Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne’ extolling the talent of Constantin but only referring to him as “Monsieur G”! In his early eighties, Constantin was knocked down by a carriage on the street and suffered multiple fractures to one of his legs. Nevertheless he recovered sufficiently to live until the age of ninety - albeit effectively bedridden for the last seven years. Like so many artists, he failed to capitalise on his talent and massif outpouring of work, and, in those later years, he had to rely on a small family pension to eke out a very modest existence. He died in Paris on 13th December 1892. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1662968807312-6ZDMXJ3845CS8334O7EP/W2+110922+Crop.jpg Work - The Waverley Departing Yarmouth Pier - 2022 Launched in 1946, the Waverley is the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer. Based in Scotland, she now visits several areas of the UK each year to offer excursions in those areas. Here, she is departing Yarmouth Pier for a return trip to Swanage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1669561100737-YD8QN9TGGISD46AH7F0Q/Fragile+Earth+II+ECrop.jpg Work - Fragile Earth II - 2022 Entered into the Quilter’s Guild challenge 2022. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, the quilt depicts a snapshot of the world we share; its various habitats; and how it is affected by poverty, poor health, civil unrest, deforestation, warfare and the changing climate. A world held together by safety pins! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1672983687081-EHEHASJKUZ43B7IE3DPZ/Bees+Crop.jpg Work - Thanks to Bees We have honey, beeswax and mead! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1685440744820-HQBJL9HQ2OCX8G4S21LZ/Tide+Watch+CropS.jpg Work - Tide Watch This sculpture, made out of Ciment Fondue, is installed on the river bank at the Medina Riverside Park, Newport, Isle of Wight. Concern for the effects of sea level rise around the world - and especially at this Park - influenced the design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1698067306039-XTTLBW9HGZBSDVPJGS8V/WS231093+1+S.jpg Work - 2MT Class 2-6-2T - Number 41298 - Ready for Halloween 2023! This 2MT Class 2-6-2T locomotive - Number 41298 - was designed by George Ivatt and completed at the British Railways Crewe Works in October 1951. Weighing 63 tons 5 cwt, it has two 16.5" x 24.0" cylinders on the outside driving 5' 00" wheels. Withdrawn from service with British Railways in July 1967, it was purchased by the Ivatt Locomotive Trust, and, after time with the Longmore Military Railway in Hampshire and the Quainton Railway Society in Buckinghamshire, it arrived on the Isle of Wight in 2008. The Ivatt Locomotive Trust generously transferred ownership of 41298 and its other locomotives to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway in 2009. After a complete overhaul, 41298 started to haul passenger trains in September 2015, and it remains in regular service with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is a heritage railway that runs through five and a half miles of Isle of Wight countryside from Smallbrook Junction in the East to Wootton Station in the West - via stations at Ashey and Havenstreet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1719916488109-XN2C64BT8XSGXCA6QXHA/Drawing+1+Crop.jpg Work - Henry Moore - Shelter Sketch Book Number One - Drawing 1. Six lying figures. Pen and black ink and graphite, with green, red and blue wax crayon and watercolour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c48350029711455c398e8fc/1758982371735-WFFLQZLZTFLCRRF6B9SW/image-asset.jpeg Work - Canada Geese - 25th September 2025 These Canada Geese were seen arriving en masse on the River Yar at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 25th September 2025, but, by the next day, they had all flown away! Canada Geese are year-round residents in the UK, and, during the summer, they become temporarily flightless, gathering in large groups near water to moult. 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