Monthly Archives: November 2010

on the ice , 26.11.10

this was the coldest day yet I am making a mini series of mock icebergs. I looked around the Bridestones for the perfect rock that will double as an iceberg when modelled in clay. This mini iceberg will be fired … Continue reading

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more populus

I knew when I placed the model figures before (17.10.10), that there weren’t enough of them and that the sun wasn’t strong enough or in the right place (mid afternoon) so today being a day with good sunshine, I headed … Continue reading

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Ravenscliffe at Blackstone Edge Reservoir

We managed it! November 9th, the group made a trip up to Blackstone Edge Reservoir in the minibus….Steve from United Utilities let us through the gate so we could drive to a good vantage point- thanks. The weather was quite … Continue reading

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sculpture at Coldwell Centre

I loaded the table with materials collected from the landscape and they responded in different ways: making sculpture, drawing, taking photographs, involving the scale model figures. such a lot came through this session: building structures , manipulating scale with the … Continue reading

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young ambassadors on the moors

The Young Ambassadors group spent a weekend at the Coldwell Centre, between Widdop and Trawden, working with myself on art, Andrew on writing and Gavin on archaeology. Cronologically- Gavin did a walk at Ilkley Moor to look at the cup … Continue reading

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starting a glacier

I’m interested in the idea of glaciers sculpting the land, carving their way through valleys, the debris they leave behind them. The limestone at The Hushings was left by a glacier that had slithered, (meandered?) its way down from N. … Continue reading

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