The studio bookshelf

The books behind the studio. Some I use all the time, some are next on my pile.

Reading Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland at the table over a wooden bowl of rowan berries and a cup of tea
Reading from Woodland Folk Tales at a Tree to Ink workshop, over a bowl of rowan.

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From the hedge: making your own art materials

Books on making your own art materials from the land around you: inks and paints, charcoal, brushes, quills and paper.

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Circles and geometry

Drawing with a compass and pencil, and the patterns that keep turning up in nature.

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Colour, and what making does to us

The long history of colour, and what the research says happens in us when we make things.

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Getting unstuck

For when you want to make something and can't seem to start.

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The thinking underneath

The ideas the studio rests on: that imperfect things are worth making, and that the land deserves care when you take from it.

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Folklore of the hedge and wood

Old stories about the trees and plants we gather from, and the people who once knew them best.

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