Some little eggs for Easter

The last few weeks feel like I haven't done much, certainly no making as such. I have been resting a bit this week but also putting in the ground work for some new projects, proposals and ventures, early days yet.

So feeling a little out of touch with making I was reminded of the red dyed eggs we were given by our host as a traditional Easter celebration last year in Santorini. So here are my attempts using just colours from the garden; onion skins for colour, fennel, herb robert, rosemary, etc for pattern. I particularly like the way the colour speckled through the shell to make some spotty eggs.

walk 10 bundles

Taking time to think

I haven't had much time in the studio recently. Taking some time there this afternoon I spent a long time cleaning and tidying. It always makes me feel guilty 'wasting' time like this, but later I felt I got a breakthrough. It seems I need to do mundane tasks, 'setting my stall out' before my mind can settle.

I finally feel like I am getting somewhere with my work for Pinpoint II.

Bundles from walk 9

Eco print on silk, walk 9

Studio play

I have so many things on the go at the moment I worry they will all jumble into one at any moment. So I am conscious of trying to keep them sperate. Inevitably I end up picking up one thing to work on and then dipping into a different project.

Here are images of the eco-print silk bundle from walk 7. It is a rather good print, which seems a shame as I was planning to cut it into ribbons... perhaps I'll leave it a while.

Decisions

Trying to make decisions about my method for this project. Should I make while ideas are still fresh or wait til colours have developed and memory chrystalised?

Remembering a recent BBC Horizon program about how we make decisions... on balance I will probably make my decisions on instinct anyway and just spend ages trying to rationalise it. 

Just do what feels right.