First homegrown veg of the year 🌱💚🌱 purple sprouting broccoli …. 😊

I have been making drawings in oak ink to accompany my series of linocuts in a handmade book for the @cornwall_crafts which will open on the 14th March to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the @nationaltrust at Trelissick….

My husband trying to disentangle Desmond from his gathered brambles and twigs…a daily occurrence… Saus watching and ensuring he does the job to her satisfaction ie quickly so he can get on with throwing he ball. 😂

#foraging Comfrey I have been using comfrey as a compress around an aching joint… (also as a liquid feed for plants) does anyone else use it?

Drawing and drinking nettle and ginger tea! An update on the nettles… I feel much brighter since I have been drinking my nettle tea and including them in stews…having felt a bit depleted since christmas…. #nettles #medicinalweeds #eatweeds #medicinalherbal

This is President Wilson I tell a little of his interesting story in my bird of the month ebook. If you would like to read it you can receive it free of charge when you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. No catches just a monthly newsletter and a 16 page ebooklet pdf download… enjoy! #freeebook #birdofthemonth #pigeonbook #pigeonzine #freepdf

Here is my gorgeous Sausage now…8 years old just chillin in the sun, waiting patiently for someone to want to play…

This is another linocut for the 125 years celebration at @nttrelissick hand coloured… I am also working on an artists book for the exhibition which may include some of my preliminary oak hall ink sketches … 😊

Multi coloured magpies collage, printmaking, happy accidents…

This is my beautiful little Sausage … she is a collie cross and now 8 years old but was just 5 weeks when this was taken…she has a blue and a brown eye, someone once told me it means she is half year and half in heaven, oddly she is almost a carbon copy of a dog I had 12 years ago also a collie cross but tan and white… she was young when she died and I missed her terribly… I like to think a bit of her returned to me in Saus? However because I have had Saus from a puppy she has none of Sukies vices who was a troubled rescue dog..bless her. ❤❤❤ . . . #puppy #collie #colliecross #farmdog #myadroabledog

Happy accidents collaged together… I get really excited about these…❤

This is the oldest pigeon ever recorded (as far as I could find) I tell his interesting story in my bird of the month ebook do you have it yet? If you would like to read it you can receive it free of charge when you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. There are no catches just the newsletter and a 16 page ebooklet pdf download… enjoy! #freeebook #birdofthemonth #pigeonbook #pigeonzine

Here is another of my little happy accident birds …this one is a Rook

I have been moving these prints along a little today. Adding a little bit of light hand colouring to this linocut to celebrate 125 years of the @nationaltrust to be exhibited at @nttrelissick with @cornwall_crafts. . . . . . . #trelissickgardens #125yearsnationaltrust #linocut #printmaking #blockprinting #monoprint #reliefprinting #lino #sparrow #contemporaryart #narrative #cornwallart #wildlifeart #birdart #birdartist #wildbird #illustration #naturalworld #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #get_imprinted #ukprintmakers #printmaker #oneofforiginal #anthrozoology

Poor Desmond …not stuck but brambles all wrapped around his legs like manacles… he had to come in for a bit of a tidy up, he wasnt impressed bless him… but he did get a few extra nuts. . . . . . #desmondthesheep #lambs #countryside #countrylife #farmlife #countryliving #joyofsheep #animalassistedinterventions #mindfulness #sheep #shetlandsheep #animalassistedtherapy #sheepofinstagram #loveofsheep #naturetherapy #wellbeing #smallholding #sheep #onthefarm

Do you have your February the month. It possibly should have been called in love and war… Pigeons such interesting and surprising birds. If you would like to see what I have gathered together this bird of the month you can receive it free of charge if you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. There are no catches just the newsletter and a 16 page ebooklet pdf download… enjoy! #freeebook #birdofthemonth #pigeonbook #pigeonzine

This is how the masks get over printed…I place cut out versions over the print on paper then monoprint over this doesn’t exist except for in a photograph but I do love them 😊