Last month I visited the new Design Museum in Kensington, London for a look around the ‘Breathing Colour’ exhibition by Hella Jongerius. I didn’t know much about it but knew that it would definitely appeal to my obsessive sense of colour...
I'm staying in Amsterdam for a couple of day with my son as he's just finished his GCSE's and I thought he could do with a post exam treat...
Yesterday I was invited to Henley Royal Regatta to be a guest of Bremont Watches. I’d never been to the Regatta before so I was a combination of really excited and actually a bit nervous...
Chelsea Physic Garden in London was a discovery for me in March and has recently inspired some of my new silk designs. The greenhouses are really wonderful, as are the textures and plants...
Last month I was given a tour of one of the most incredible unsung heroes of London; The London Library. It’s situated in St James’ Square and I signed up to become a member immediately. Apart from anything else this is a library which looks exactly like how...
This weekend I went back to Warwickshire where I grew up for a friend’s birthday and we decided to stay in Stratford. I’d never visited Stratford as a tourist as it’s a town where I spent so much time in my early teens so it...
This week I was invited by Georg Jensen to visit their Mount St store in London to watch one of their Danish silversmiths from Copenhagen, Tina Bentzen, demonstrate some of her techniques, her sketches, answer questions and show us some of her amazing hand...
For the final part of this project one of the things I thought I’d look at something I reckon we’re all pretty scared about which is pain and this led me to visit Chelsea Physic Garden as I was interested in historical Native Remedies for...
In this third week of my work with The History of Modern Medical Science, I wanted to look at a recurring theme which seem to run through quite a few of the stories from Witnesses To Modern Medical Science. It became apparent to me that the...
Whilst I was staying at Ty Unnos with artist Sophie Abbott as part of my field trip for The History of Medical Science project I’d had an idea that I could work on an arrangement with some copper piping, and then quite wonderfully, Dorian...