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25/06/2026

So here I am, in Normandy, on a bit of a self-driven residency for a month 🤩

It's hot but breezy and peaceful so I'm hoping to make some orders for lovely customers, read, swim often, slowly cycle, write poems and try out new ideas for up coming exhibitions:

SHIFT at with

LIMINAL at with

TRESOR at with

I might not put loads on here tbh as the signal is pretty rubbish, and tbh I've been feeling a little burnt out so think a rest from social media might help a bit 🙂

21/06/2026

Happy Father's day to our funny, kind, teasing Dad and Grandad who can always be relied on to help us, tell the truth, and treat us to a decent lunch 😁😋 love you Dad 😘

20/06/2026

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Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

18/06/2026

Oh yeah! Cards are here for our SHIFT exhibition at from 🤩

Who's coming?! 🤩

17/06/2026

Happy birthday to our clever, funny, eldest lad : so proud of you, and miss seeing you today 😘

16/06/2026

Really pleased that my Chain of Consequences will be exhibited at the wonderful in October with talented .collective jewellery artists 🤩

Bucharest is such an artistic, friendly, inspiring city, I loved it there 😍 and all that gorgeous ancient gold in the national museum 🤌

14/06/2026

Had a little chill in here today while Tom was talking football on our dog walk 😁

Been lush eh? 😍

12/06/2026

A walk up the clay trails in the mizzle was a good way to clear my head tonight 😍

12/06/2026

Can I just say I had a lovely grey-day walk into work at my studio in St Austell this morning 🙂

I'd say 75% of people I passed smiled at me and said hello, including older people, young lads, people from different countries and the town drinkers 😁

The hanging baskets look lush in the town centre, I overheard a friendly interaction in with a polite young lad and the lady behind the counter. And they had custard tarts 😋

This is the reality here, and most places in the UK I think: people living, working and yes struggling alongside each other, rubbing along ok ❤️

Don't let's allow greedy politicians and 1%ers to turn us against each other, to create division in order to line their own pockets.

Hope and kindness and politeness are all forms of resistance I reckon ✊️