I'm off to the Cornwall Design Fair 17th-19th August, Trereife House, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8TJ www.trereifepark.co.uk  and accompanying me will be this piece "Windy Beach" 13.5x13cm which I finished this week, I hope very much that's its not windy when I get there but glorious sunshine!

I have been away from the studio so much recently with holidays, days out and teaching. All of it has been truly lovely, and as always those experiences are very very rewarding but, and I am so glad to have experienced them, they all add to the person that you are, but, and here is the but, how lovely it is to be back in my studio and making again, such a simple pleasure that brings me such joy.
Here are two oystercatchers, the result of my toils of the latter part of this week. I am off to the coast this weekend and I hope very much to see lots of these shoreline birds.