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Open Studios 2018
I’m tidying up! Ready to open the doors on my little studio on Friday July 6th. Please come along and say hello. I have many new things to show you! Lanterns, cards, note books and NEW Calendars! So new I don’t have them yet. But I have seen a proof, and I’ve been promised they’ll […]
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Opening Evening!
Such a lovely evening last Thursday, for the preview of Craggs & Fells at Heart Gallery. Sunshine was promised, but never materialised. Which makes it all the more amazing that this lovely and determined lady pitched up at lunchtime to bag her place at the front of the queue. The Heart Gallery Dream Team were […]
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Inspired by the Fells…
So, this is what we’re hanging tomorrow, ready for Thursday’s preview at Heart Gallery: I hope you like them… All my pictures are done on watercolour paper in a combination of inks, acrylics, gouache, watercolours, gold thread, 23 carat gold leaf, coloured pencil and sometimes some pastel too, for good measure. Really I like to […]
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Craggs & Fells. It’s very soon!
It really is – only a week to go. Last night I had my first anxiety dream. Heart Gallery had put my work in the basement, 3 floors below, and the lights weren’t working. I’d forgotten to get changed. Someone gave me a baby to carry that was screaming and in need of a change. […]
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Tree Treasure Books
I’ve made something new! I like little things. I also love handmade books and origami; so this is all sorts of things I love… These images were inspired by a camping trip in Brittany last year. I spent a lot of time looking up through the branches of trees and did some little watercolours on […]
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Birds Eggs
A couple of Saturdays ago I started the weekend in a very black mood. A combination of another wet, cold weekend, without light in the valley, and probably some squabbling children. I took myself out of the house and found this little ‘Observers Book of Birds Eggs’ in an antiques shop. Those little range of […]
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Lets go to Whitby
The last week of the Christmas holiday was grim and grey, but the forecast for the last weekend looked suddenly bright and cold. We all bundled in the car to the East coast in search of some Whitby air to blow the Christmas cobwebs away. I always think that the last minute trips are the […]
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Just a little bit of painting…
At this time of year the studio is busy with orders from customers and galleries. Which is lovely! I love to be busy. But yesterday I skived… My last exhibition in my home town of Hebden Bridge was in Spring of 2015, and my next one will open at Heart Gallery on April 26th 2018. […]
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Bookbinding in Edinburgh
I love notebooks. I’ve always loved them, and my girls have inherited my obsession. If we go to the wonderful bookshop at Saltaire, Hattie will circle the stand with the beautiful notebooks, picking each one up, and putting it down before spending several weeks pocket money on something tiny and exquisite that’s too precious to […]
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A Fathers Day Blog Post
Fairly safe in the knowledge that my Dad doesn’t ‘do’ social media, and therefore is unlikely to ever see this, I though I’d tell you a bit about my Dad. He’s not a playing football, rough and tumble kind of Dad. He never was. He had a book lined study, one where we were expected […]
About Kate
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I grew up in Suffolk where the skies are vast and the land is low and flat. My grandad was an architect…
