Thank You To All My Customers For Your Patience...getting there...

Goodbye to Studio 308, cleaned and polished and painted ready for a new knitwear designer...

Studio TW-05 - Now has benches with tops!

The hard part mostly done. Trying out a new dividing pegboard arrangement to hang tools. Anyone for table tennis?!

New Studio chaos...lots to do!

I love my new space, it's huge and fantastic, so large in fact that I can section off an area to have a cementing area and a clean area, luxury! The views are amazing and yesterday I started to get used to the new surrounding noises, the long low blasts of a ships horn, which I suspect was arriving / leaving the Tate and Lyle works opposite.

Thank you for bearing with me during this disruption.

Second Floor Studios have just released their flier for Open Studios 2 - 5th June.

Hope you can make it. More details to follow nearer the time.

Sunset...Sunrise!

Sunset at Cockpit Arts Deptford;

The view from my current studio window, a beautiful London sunset over the Crossfields Estate.

The strange glowing orange disc on the spire is the clock of St Pauls, Deptford. 

Sunrise at Second Floor Studios and Arts, Woolwich;

Looking downstream towards the Woolwich Ferry and Royal Arsenal Pier

Tate and Lyle opposite.

Looking upstream to the Royal Iris (the original ferry across the Mersey) and the Thames Barrier.

Moving date 26th January...

Open Studios along the 3rd floor at Cockpit Arts Deptford...Part 2!

Eleanor Pritchard

Eleanor Pritchard

Sally Lees

Sally Lees

Matt Nicholls

Matt Nicholls

Matt Nicholls

Ruth Martin

Ruth Martin

Charlotte Grierson

Charlotte Grierson

Maria Hatling

Open Studios along the 3rd floor at Cockpit Arts Deptford...Part 1!

Lorna Syson

Lorna Syson

Laura Adburgham

Stephen Thomson - The Bow Surgery

Maria Mclean

Maria Mclean pride and joy!

Jen Rowland

Tania Clarke Hall

Annette Bugansky

Row Pinto

Petra Bishai

Petra Bishai

Lucy Martin

Lucy Martin

Lucy Martin

Amber Khokhar

Amber Khokhar

Amber Khokhar new..beautiful stencil kits

Fflur Owen

Farewell Cockpit Arts Open Studios!

Sadly my last Open Studios at Cockpit Arts where I have been based for the last 14 years. It's been a fantastic place to work but it's time to move on and a huge studio awaits at the 'UK's single site largest affordable studio space provider' Second Floor Studios!


Come and visit me at Second Floor Open Studios, 2 - 5th June, where there are a wide variety of crafts; sculpture, moving image, costume making, mozaics, fine art, alongside ceramics, jewellery, bow making, textiles, hot and cold glass and many, many more.


Second Floor Studios is right next to the Thames with stunning views of the London Skyline and Thames Barrier. The original ferry across the Mersey the Royal Iris is laid up adjacent. There is a fantastic café, exhibition space and garden spaces to relax.


I move end of January but before I go here are a couple of Cockpit Arts Open Studios images past to present...

Way back in 2003!

Getting ready for the current Open Studios...small panels for sale.

More pics to follow.... 

Test Your Poole Pottery Knowledge - Part 2!

The design for this panel was based on one by the artist Tony Morris who began working for Poole Pottery in the 1960's. My customer, the metal worker Ian Marshall, was not only interested in colour, shape and form, his design undergoing many revisions before settling on this one, but equally interested in the look of lead itself; the way that the tension within a panel can be changed through both shaping the lead and varying the use of it's thickness and thinness.

The original design by the amazingly talented Tony Morris was based on pollarded trees, we liked the thought of seeing this shape more as a blazing sun pierced by lead sillouettes. You can see more of Tony Morris's work here at the Virtual Museum of Poole Pottery. You can see more of Ian Marshalls beautiful work here.