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Workshops

 

Hello, the Pittenweem Arts Festival finished yesterday and thanks to everyone who came along to look, comment, ask, and buy my work over the last nine days. It been great with so much conversation about art and work, enough to keep me going for a long while. I have been asked about upcoming workshops so I will be doing a workshop at the Centre for Stewardship at Falkland sometime in November. I will let you know through the website when I have the dates and where and how to book. Thanks again for all your support and now it is a day of putting my studio back into some kind of order, so I can make some work this week – it feels like a while !

Dominique x

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Weekend workshop.

I spent a wonderful day at Ninewells Community Garden in Dundee leading a workshop with a group making garden books. It was a pleasure to work with everyone who really showed their creative talents and shared their own garden stories . A lovely day. Thank you for asking me back. And for the redcurrants, gooseberries and peas !

 

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Thundery showers and manure.

 

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Ink sketch from this mornings visit to the farm.

 

The morning slips quietly out of the door, unnoticed, unremarked. The sky dovetails the sea, muffled wool blanket song of wood pigeons. As I walk the toggle on my rucksack, tick, tick, ticking against a sketchbook with each step. I reach the big heap of manure, twice my height. I lay the paper in the dusty earth and draw. Dark clouds gather, all of a sudden tip, tip, tap, tapping, the ink runs, undoing, blooming flowers across the page. I pull up my hood and look a cow in the eye.