Over the past few days I have been updating and editing the longer version of my artist statement to include with a submission for an exhibition. To do this occasionally really does help refine my ideas, and gives me both inspiration and direction to go forward. It also prompted me to go back into the box and pull out some results of experiments, aka samples, I did when playing with leather about a year back. I haven’t used any of these ideas yet, but bringing them out into the light of day after months in the box I can see them with fresh eyes and find them newly inspiring. This is why I never throw samples away.

I can already envisage something quite large using the idea in the upper left one.

The lower left one of gold, although the process is time consuming, is demanding to be used in something, I think a relatively small piece, since it has some delicacy to do with laciness.