PAPER HARE London pop up shop

Come and see some of my ceramics, textiles, paintings and cards alongside work by other talented creative types at the Museum of British Folklore's Yuletide Pop up Shop in SW London.
Tie it in with a trip to the V&A!

Go To Compton Verney!

To see ´Remember Remember' an exhibition of Fireworks run by the Museum of British Folklore. The Pop Up shop attached has some of my creations amongst other brilliant fireworkey and folkloric curiosites.

Spooky selkies

A sneak preview of some slippery maidens to be sold at Simon Costin's amazing Museum of British Folklore pop up shop. See here for more information about the museum project- the next pop up exhibition is about the history of fireworks at Compton Verney. Expect some ceramic goats and hares from me too and I'm just working on some fireworkey cards...

Museum collection

This is a painting that has now formed part of the collection for the Museum of British Folklore. It is a painting on glass, etched away in sections, called
''Scenes from British Folklore in mock scrimshaw style''. . Pretty self explanatory really!

The folkloric practices involved include the Burryman, Hobby horses, Mummer's plays, Mermaids and Shellycoats, May day celebrations, the Dunmow flitch, the Whittlesea straw bear, Swan Upping, Well dressing, Abbots Bromley Horn dancing, beating the boundaries, Chalk figures, Maiden's garlands,Welsh love spoons, corn dollies....

Exhibition curated by the Museum of British Folklore

(double click on image for better view)

If you're near Northumberland in the next month or so, do go see this show in Hexham, opening on the weekend of the Hexham Folkworks Gathering. Simon Costin will have his travelling Museum of British Folklore parked up and there will be work from artists who's work explores British / Folkloric themes, including a selection of my newest paintings.