January 2018 – Donna Cheshire Textiles

Now and Then

This year’s ‘Blue Monday’ brought me three rejections in one day. There are ups and downs in the career of an artist but it’s hard when the downs come as a coach party!! Still the positives do tend to outweigh the negatives and later that same week I had a message to say that theContinue reading “Now and Then”

Snow on Saturday

Leftover snow starkly outlining the texture of ploughed fields whilst overhead cirrus clouds till the sky in mimicry of those fields. A Magpie, perched on the highest twig of a leafless blackthorn. An avian exclamation mark, it punctuates the pause between land and sky. My reading is beginning to have an impact on my writing;Continue reading “Snow on Saturday”

Winter Days

The days are grey and light levels are so low but there is work to be done and plans to fulfill. This week started with grey morning clouds stretched like thin muslin. Ragged scraps of blue patched in the holes between clouds. Gradually, a wind felted the clouds into a thicker blanket of cover, leavingContinue reading “Winter Days”

Little landscapes

It is cold and dark here in the North East today, so I’m cozied up by the fire doing hand stitching (😱🤣) I know, I know but it seems the right thing to be doing today 😊 I have a series of workshops to deliver in the next couple of months and I want toContinue reading “Little landscapes”