CAROLYN SAXBY MIXED MEDIA TEXTILE ART

Hello, well here we are 2021 and it's good to be back here posting again.   Today is about making a fresh start and finding I needed a refresher in both photo processing and website editi...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2021/01/january-blobs-of-yellow_1.html

We are almost done with February and I'm so glad to see the back of it.  Apart from one or two days it's been nothing but rain, hailstones, storms and news of Coronavirus spreading quickly round...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2020/02/cornwall-colours-and-textures.html

January gently passed. In a tiny corner of my rented apartment I opened up a box of hearts and spread out with some carefully considered work I have yet to share.  I enjoyed the feel of the fa...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2020/02/february-hearts.html

Just a quick post with a short announcement - that my online shop will open again on Saturday 1 February 2020.  I hope January will be a quiet peaceful one while I gather my thoughts and get org...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2019/12/gentle-january.html

It's a grey rainy day in Cornwall.  Very heavy rain and rather blustery as well.  I do love the weather here in this exposed part of the far south west.  It's always very dramatic and very bea...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2019/06/the-rain-it-raineth-every-day.html

It's been such a long time since I've published anything anywhere, I was truly starting to wonder if I would ever write or post again.  The hardest thing, when you've been away so long, is how t...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2019/06/a-fresh-desire-to-work-again.html

Well, that was an interesting week with the weather! The "Beast from the East" meets "Storm Emma".  Siberian snow and 60mph winds meant we had a good 8 to 12 inches of snow in places with ...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/03/snowed-in.html

These are my collages for the prompts of "reassemble" (cutting an image into squares then turning the pieces and rearranging them) and "squares and rectangles" reassemble I used a piec...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/02/reassemble-and-squaresrectangles.html

These are my collages for the prompts of "image pairings" (cutting an image in half and working the two sides into two distinctively different themed collages) and “strips” “the green ...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/02/image-pairings-and-strips.html

It's been a few weeks since I last posted something here. I've got a little bit behind with sharing work online just recently although I have been keeping up quite well with making weekly collage...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/02/the-weekly-collage-project.html

This week I am sharing two weeks' worth of collages for the project I am doing with my sister Evelyn, following the prompts from Randel Plowman's book The Collage Workbook .   My first two ...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/01/black-and-white-with-charge-of-colour.html

Week 2 of the collage project and I have just the one collage to share this week for the theme of WHITE.  Lots of layers though, exploring tones of white on white ... My collage is 5 x 5 i...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/01/white-on-white.html

A new year, a new start and I am very pleased to be back posting here on my page again.  This year is all about having fun and being happy.  Creating beautiful things and exploring new ways of...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2018/01/taking-things-slowly.html

A collection of memories from summer days, time spent in St. Ives, Mousehole and earlier workings. How quickly life can change and not always for the better.  In my last post I briefly ment...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/10/away-for-while.html

Today is the first day of October and the first day in a new phase of my life.  This sounds profound I know but there have been a lot of t...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/10/autumn-on-beach.html

a week to go and much to do ... 9 - 16 September 2017 St. Ives Textiles - Kernow Inspirations Porthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St. Ives I will be there on the 11th and 16th Septem...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/09/st-ives-textiles-show.html

Quite a few weeks ago now I began creating some painted backgrounds and collages for experiments with glazing mediums for week 20 of the Surface Treatment Workshop.  I shared these backgrounds i...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/08/surface-treatment-workshop-weeks-20-21.html

Just popping by to say hello.  I'll be catching up here in a couple of days.  A family visit followed by a mild recurrence of my illness (not connected lol) have had a slight impact on what I...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/08/a-hello-from-cornwall.html

We have a misty mizzly day in Cornwall today.  Heavy rain was forecast but it's brighter than suggested.  It wouldn't take that much for the sun to break through the thick white cloud cover. ...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/busy-mizzly.html

I am pleased to be taking part in the third annual textile exhibition in St. Ives.  It takes place during the first week of the St. Ives September Festival and will be held at Porthmeor Stud...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/st-ives-textiles-annual-exhibition-2017.html

Time for a gathering of recent work, thoughts and doings from the last few weeks.  I may be a few days late with week 20 of The Surface Treatment Workshop but I have begun working on the ba...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/the-joy-of-colour.html

This week's workshop was about embossing.  I tried out Liquitex gloss gel, Golden molding paste and my favourite Daler texture paste.  It's always interesting to see how the products perform ...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/surface-treatment-workshop-week-19.html

I spent a wonderful afternoon among friends yesterday eco dyeing with Caro Beech at Hayle.  I have "dabbled" with this myself a teensy bit but I found yesterday's workshop invaluable and ... I a...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/eco-printing-and-dyeing-with-leaves-on.html

I'm really enjoying this weekly project, exploring techniques and products that are both familiar and unfamiliar.  When it's a technique that I am used to I try to take it in a different directi...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/surface-treatment-workshop-week-18.html

For week 17 we explored printing with sponges, rollers and foam.  Quite simple patterns in my favourite Cornish colours, particularly inspired, perhaps, by the way the weather changes the colo...

https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/2017/07/surface-treatment-workshop-week-17.html