Search
Moira Carter
- Jun 29, 2021
- 6 min
Art, health and healing
There's a lot said about art therapy and how it helps those in mental and/or physical pain, but what about those who already create, the...
1090
Moira Carter
- May 1, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day – Jenny Southam
I first saw Jenny's work in Ruthin craft centre and it was love at first sight, whenever we visited I'd make a bee line for the shop, and...
360
Moira Carter
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day – El Innocent
On one of my wanderings around the internet I found a fascinating article about the Abramtsevo, an art centre just outside Moscow. I'd...
260
Moira Carter
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Seashells – a perennial favourite
I've been thinking about the sea quite a bit just recently, I'm missing it, and this led me to thoughts of seashells. I've had a few...
360
Moira Carter
- Jan 3, 2021
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day - Serizawa Keisuki
Superbly drawn and full of dynamic movement, this is just fantastic! Kimono shaped comforter, Edo period, 19th century, indigo dyeing,...
470
Moira Carter
- Aug 6, 2020
- 1 min
Pattern perfect!
It's August, it's time for Summer School with Make It In design. I've taken this twice before, it's always challenging and great fun and...
350
Moira Carter
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
Serendipity - the happy accident!
Horace Walpole proposed this 'new' word in 1754 – after reading The three princes of Serendip, a fairy tale in which the heroes were...
710
Moira Carter
- Jan 25, 2019
- 1 min
Something new!
It's a New Year and January looks like this - a new collection - and some of these and a couple of variations have already been submitted...
160
Moira Carter
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
From feed sacks to frocks!
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Right time, right place, fulfilling a need and getting a life of it's own, becoming...
240
Moira Carter
- Oct 26, 2018
- 1 min
I've never grown up!
Some of you may have noticed I've been revamping the website and have been through several transitions. The first move was to update my...
170
Moira Carter
- Oct 14, 2018
- 1 min
Home again, home again...
Gosh, it's the second week of October and I bet you're all wondering where I've been since my last post ...well I've been...
130
Moira Carter
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Inspiring artist of the day - Oskar Schlemmer
I love a bit of Bauhaus, and I do so love a bit of ballet, and Oskar Schlemmer embraced both in his costume designs and choreography....
110
Moira Carter
- Aug 4, 2018
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day - Jon Eric Riis
Now and again I buy a magazine, not any magazine but something inspiring like Selvedge, Embroidery, Ceramics Review or Crafts. In the...
550
Moira Carter
- Aug 2, 2018
- 1 min
Inspiring Artist of the day - Hendrik Kersten
I'm sitting in my work room listening to Lark ascending - Vaughan Williams at his most sublime - and looking for inspiring images of...
220
Moira Carter
- Jul 12, 2018
- 1 min
Inspiring artist of the day – Ghika & Craxton
So picking up the theme of inspiring artists – I still have quite a few to add to my vast and ever growing list – here are two I knew...
130