Bibliophilia

Big oil spill in progress  I've got three substantial works in progress at the moment and flit between them according to where I...

Stockton Mine (photo from Solid Energy ) I spend a lot of time looking at pictures of open cast mines (photographs, diagrams and maps) t...

The first action on visiting is always to move the spinning wheel and tapestry frame out into the hallway so I can access what I need. I...

I'm overjoyed to announce the launch of my new 'gallery' website at www.meliors.net .  It's been years in the dreaming, mont...

View from the Tui Mine site, looking out over the town of Te Aroha and the Hauraki Plains   As part of the research I'm doing for my...

 I'm doing lots of thinking about what colours to use for the Tui Mine piece I'm designing.  Although I am confident and enthusi...

My friend Barry Smith, and his wife Catherine opened an Antarctic exhibition last week in exactly the same gallery  ( ArtsPost, Hamilton,...

Today is the 7th birthday of this blog, Bibliophilia. Each year the quantity of posts is a little less than the previous year, but I'...

This is as close as its possible to drive to Tui Mine these days, and it was far too rainy a day to get out and walk (especially given wha...

Snotty globules of oil-spill dispersant, hand-crocheted  cotton with wool  After starching up the first batch of tea-dyed crochet disper...

I've got a couple of large scale oil spill works on the go. Pressing hard at their heels are some mining works I've got planned, jus...

The South Pole on My Antarctica (shown here while still WIP) is marked with a small pearly button "So at last we reached our destinatio...

Pohutakawa bursting into bloom at Mount Maunganui I first heard about the Kermadec artists' voyage on the radio just after the artists ...

The University of Waikato bought my large embroidered appliquéd blanket piece, Tipping Point , from the Imagining Antarctica exhibition. I ...

No Mine is an Island , a large embroidered sculptural piece made earlier this year, but never exhibited has sold to a private collector in C...