Faery Fellers

 I was asked a while back to submit a piece of work to a project devised by the poet Tom Sharp. He has written an extraordinary piece called 'The Weeping Cufflinks' revealing the true and otherworldly nature of the financial markets and city traders.He called together artists from many disciplines to create their own response to this and then the virus struck.....Not to be put off by this the works are now being shown initially on an instagram account 'Faery Fellers' with a website to follow.

 This copy of the Financial Times is quite clearly the property of Christina Rossetti's goblins, in fact the only legible words on it are 'come buy' with the terrible consequences of greed being hidden under ink. The tell tale berries are growing through the header though, dark and addictive, the fragile paper sagging under the hidden glama of the trader fae. It is a rare glimpse of reality, the correlation between paper and money and human commodities. This copy had been left on a tree stump....on April 1st.

 


As the scroll rolls on.... for future reference the specific links to instagram are as follows...
1.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_iSJGOBgcF/
2.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_kz2xmB9Ec/
3.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nlIT-BCM4/
4.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_qN2uVBaRt/
5.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ssrMFhV36/
6.https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xrdcXB_Z-/

Studio Tour Day Seven, Stuff

 The final day of the tour, here we find the usual work disturber at work.

Staring out of the window is another thing to be done at the moment...

 A sleepy corner; a singed 1930's wedding dress and a plants' vascular system. I like a concept under glass to contemplate.

 My old dolls crib full of treasure. Lace, cotton reels, bobbins, pearl necklaces, tape measures, perfume bottles, hanks of thread...the usual contents of my handbag.

Please take a card before you  leave.

Studio Tour Day Six, Sitting Down

 
Firstly, a cup of tea...no old china escapes my grasp in this town.

 
Then to sit near the books...some cushions embroidered by me, some by my great grandmother Daisy.

...by the fire.

Studio Tour Day Five, The Cupboard

This is not a cupboard I hear you say...no it is the mirror which used to be in the cupboard which is also The Museum For Objects of Vertu which lives in the studio. For views of its other life follow the link. This is how it is in this world....

 ....my collections of show equipment, storage boxes and general materials.The glass cloches and bell jars come out for things like the Knit and Stitch show, exhibitions or open studios and sit quietly with vintage chocolate boxes which often become integral to small works.

Then we have the hoard of materials which I constantly delve into for a small bit of ......

Tomorrow some tea and a sit down.

Studio Tour Day Four, Objets

 
The most useful things in a studio are the things without purpose. Here in a corner are two old corset stands and an old piece of work.

The piece is a version of an old christening cushion, also found here.

 
 This is a tiny corset in very plain cloth which serendipitously fitted my tiny corset display stand. There was a time when I could just pick these things up at antique markets and nobody else wanted them !! She sits atop a very plain hat box from Norway.

Lastly my 1930's costume pearl necklaces nesting in a feather bowl. It is a necessary thing.

Tomorrow...the cupboard.