Monday 30 September 2019

Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future


One of my screen prints of dandelion leaves is on show in a very beautiful exhibition:

Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future is on show at the Ruskin Library, Museum and Research Centre based at Lancaster University. The exhibition runs until 25 November 2019 and is open to the public every week day 10am - 4pm.

I'm delighted my print, A Week of Dandelions, is included - it's displayed on a wall in the gallery surrounded by drawings and sketches by John Ruskin (1819 - 1900). The Ruskin Museum, based in Coniston, describes Ruskin as 

"Artist, critic, pundit on aesthetics and ethics, thinker, seer, this social revolutionary challenged the moral foundations of Victorian Britain."

Ruskin Library website

Saturday 1 June 2019

Bernard Leach Dandelion


I have work in an exhibition in Cornwall at the moment and while visiting last month I went to the Leach Pottery in St Ives. It's a really wonderful museum, studio and gallery and i've always wanted to visit.
On our way out of the museum, in the porch on the floor are two tiles decorated by Leach with dandelions! It was my friend who pointed them out, i would have missed them otherwise. The woman working in the shop cleaned them up for me so I could take photos. Here is one of the tiles - how beautiful it is.
https://www.leachpottery.com