Primroses and Beehives

Tisbury Lake

                            Full of some sort of colourant which gave it this milky green colour.

Flowers of April

One of the most lovely things about living in the countryside is being surrounded by beautiful plants, flowers and trees. Sometimes if I'm not feeling wonderful picking flowers to have in my room is a simple thing that gives complete contentment. At the moment I have bluebells, lords and ladies, red honeysuckle, hellebore and pussy willow amongst others.

 Took my lovely lurcher for a windy walk today in the fields of rape, its really tall now, comes up above my waist and is so bright! Our house is surrounded by it on all sides!

A new daffodil I bought from the garden centre recently, I really liked the unusual peachy salmon colour in the trumpet of the flower, the edges of the trumpet are so crinkly on the oldest flower.

Wiltshire Canals

This Easter weekend I went to visit my friend who also lives in Wiltshire next to a canal with the horse on the hill(you can see it above the Nene Trader in the distance). We went to a lovely pub for burgers and chips and I took as many pictures of the barge boats as I could although I could barely stand still from the wind and rain, I love the paint work and tradition to them. Wouldn't mind living in one for a bit. In other news I found the perfect colour card for my business cards!

Found Objects

 Acorn cup for fairies

Old mans beard, always thought the fibres of this could make an interesting textile or perhaps as a wadding.

Jasmine which has the most beautiful scent, I have a small Jasmine plant in my room which has tendrils metres long! I collect all its flowers and stick them into my scrapbook then put a tissue on top to protect them, it smells really strong now.

Leaf skeleton and snowdrops.

A pewter bee which was a present for my birthday.

Walnut

Some pictures of some of my found objects, mainly natural as I love walking and I live in the countryside which i think is beautiful and influences my work and everything I do. 

The first picture is when I framed a collection of my found things as I had a spare one: Catkins, pussy willow, a honeybee - Ive got love for honeybees because they are beautiful and amazing and intelligent and I think we could learn a lot from them, finally some beautiful Jay feathers, I havent seen many during my life but I found a whole scattered collection of them on the leaf floor of the woods one day, I think it had been captured by a bird of prey, I always see the buzzard swooping through the branches so maybe it was him. I hope the jay got away.

The jewellery designer Kate Gilliland produces extraordinary pieces with direct influence from natures darker side. Using skeletons and corpses of these delicate creatures, I think Kates work respects every level of nature rather than the typically attractive outer shells which is very interesting and pretty original whilst remaining attractive and wearable.