New enthusiasms.

Kirsten has found joy in different media which is getting her excited to try out new ideas.

She has joined a print group who meet each month to explore a theme. Next month is 'fish' so Kirsten has taken one of her drawings and turned it into a tetrapak print  block.Each participant has to create twenty prints and then give one away to each member of the group .By the end everyone has a complete collection of what has been produced . A clever and thoughtful way of keeping a record of ways of working.

She has also enjoyed the pottery group which ran for ten weeks ,so much so she has enrolled for another year.She talked about the research she had to do for homework in order to progress her ideas.

Having to keep a pictorial and written record of what she found added to the enjoyment of the making.We talked about adopting something similar to bring to meetings which would be a record of individual thoughts to be shared and discussed toward new work.

Looking ahead to our next exhibition she had found this lovely box in a charity shop It set off a train of thought about a Cabinet of Curiosities . She thought about the things contained in a sewing box and 

started to think about making them in the wrong materials.....a felt mushroom ,wood scissors ,paper thimble.It looks like an interesting concept which will bring her many talents together.