Scandinavian Matryoshka Art Doll Fru Glede by Ravenhill

SALE Scandinavian Matryoshka Art Doll Fru Glede by Ravenhill.

Isn’t this beautiful. I have decided I really love these dolls. Not the traditional wooden nested ones, but the fabric kind like these, so pretty. I find myself looking at them all the time, and would love to have one in my studio or bedroom [...]

Lorrie writes for The Artist Center

Bill Weaver from The ARTISTS Center very flatteringly asked if he could use some of my blog entries to feed onto the site.  Naturally I accepted and I am honoured.  He has chosen to feature a short write up I did recently about why people give up art when they leave school, and the importance [...]

In love utterly…

with my Afghan slippers. Yes…you heard it right.

It’s been a cold, cold winter here in the UK, and downstairs from front to back we have hard floors. My feet have been freezing.  None of my slippers were keeping my feet warm, and I got to thinking, the only time I ever had warm feet in [...]

William Ashley Brown

On the 11th January 2010, my friend Bill aka Generating Hype passed away. He died surrounded by love and amidst a setting of peace and beauty.

I had known Bill for approximately three years, and we met through deviantART.  I can’t remember how or why,  I think I was running a contest and Bill offered his [...]

Featured Artist: The Artists Center

Late last year Bill Weaver creator of The Artists Center approached me with a view to being a featured artist for the site. I was naturally thrilled and jumped at the chance. He sent me quite an impressive list of questions for an interview, which would be spaced out over the period of January 2010. [...]

On reflection…

It wasn’t an awful year, but it wasn’t that good either. Truth is, 2007 was infinitely worse, as that was the year that Orla had Pneumonia and had to be revived in A&E and also that my relationship with my parents broke down, irrevocably and finally.

But, it could have been better. Reviewing my years resolutions [...]