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Winter Art & Craft Pop-Up at the Lamplighter Festival

The Lamplighter Festival guides us through the darkest months of the year, lighting up the streets of Todmorden with a handmade lantern parade, fire performers, street bands, illuminated installations, good food, warm drinks and art & crafts stalls! I have a stall at the Arty Pants Winter Art & Craft Pop-Up this forthcoming Saturday 17th November here in magical Todmorden for one of my favourite nights of the year; The Lamplighter Festival. I'll have a selection...

PARCELS FROM THE OTHERWORLD

Parcels wrapped in fragrant herbs and woodland greens and tied with black cotton twine and golden thread and sealed with wild-foraged dried posies from the land surrounding my home. I am so grateful of all the homes you have been giving to my creatures in the first week of my grand-opening, I was overwhelmed with all of your purchases, and you made my dark little heart believe that creating art could someday become my 'real' job;...

THE VEIL IS THINNING…

Long limb'd creatures with sharp teeth and talons emerge from the shadows; smiling, sneaking creatures flit amongst the mushrooms and dance under the pale moonlight; witches peer from rowan trees, weaving berry charms and cold winter breath manifests strange whisps in the night. The veil is thinning...