MAKING STUFF
and writing about it
A record of the making and the learning along the way: process, material, and the social side of hand-making.
Apr 11, 2026
Petrochemical painting has something to say
A pretty and pretty repellent tapestry composed of a lot of bad decisions and ignorance is having a moment.
A pretty and pretty repellent tapestry composed of a lot of bad decisions and ignorance is having a moment. It had a benign beginning eight years ago: to approach painting like making a quilt. It...
Jan 30, 2026
The nodes know
Hope empowers quirky denim objects I’ve had this exchange a few times this past week: You’re so busy. What are you working on? Uh… hard to say. It’s hard to put into words this curious...
Jan 21, 2026
From break to breakthrough
Making space for the creative process, at home or away The following is a public service announcement for all those cowering from the liquid gunmetal-grey skies on this bone-chilling coast: ...
Dec 14, 2025
Fibre artwork drowning in metaphors
As of this writing, those living or working on 500 properties just 60 kilometres away have been ordered to seek dry land. Those on another 1,000 properties are being told to be ready for word to flee...
Nov 5, 2025
When more is more
I’ve learned to live with a head full of bees but these days it’s all about wasps. So. Many. Wasps. Wasps that retreated indoors last week after the pest-control guy shot up the kitchen fan...
Sep 7, 2025
Quilting and connecting
If you stitch it (in public) they will come An artist-instructor friend advised me, as I was preparing my portfolio to apply to art school, that if I was planning to include images of my quilts...
May 20, 2025
Lessons from the grad show
Art school is just the end of the beginning The concourse was a crush on opening night at Emily Carr University ’s Spring grad show. Seventies’ disco music fuelled giddy graduates clutching...
May 1, 2025
Taking it Outside
Escaping the dark world of scrolling the socials “Take it outside” was a standard parenting directive back in the 1900s, shouted at the kids when pro-wrestling or trying to extricate a running...
Apr 6, 2025
Resistance can be beautiful
Hand-making outside the dominant economic system
