tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60698426296096718802011-12-17T19:41:16.248ZThe Hep Herd roams around Plum and Pepper Studio exploring craft and science and art and maths...MadeleineShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10940375405592158649noreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6069842629609671880.post-83762962516444313932011-12-17T18:54:00.003Z2011-12-17T19:41:16.254Z

silk rag shawl   The Stick Factory Gallery, 69 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh are now exhibiting my silk shawl, hand knitted from strips silk fabric reclaimed from old saris.  A selection of co-ordinating necklaces are also in the Gallery.  Their main shop is the only place you can buy my hand stamped Christmas cards and they've also got a few of my brooches made from upcycled fairisle and cashmere

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Cogs and Christmas Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.First foray into hand-stamped Christmas cards today. This and one other design so far. I have a whole load of ideas about building up collaged layers with tints of the same colour topped off with a contrast image floating on top. Once I'm well on top of the technique on paper it will be time to transfer it to fabric. Stamping on silk

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Hand stamped cards 1 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Hello world - I've been riding the rollercoaster of life and work and not been making so much in the last couple of months. There are a number of projects I'm involved in that are crystallising now. If you're in Edinburgh between tomorrow and Sunday 27 November, it would be great if you could drop in on the Craft Reactor Members'

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Windfall Scarves Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. In among the pressures of work and family and personal health I have been finding time for a couple of things. The Mathematician's Shirts project has a deadline of early November so it's the major draw on my creative energy - see it's own blog for updates on progress. However I did make some work for Felt United - the International Day of

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Works in progress Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.It vanished - there seemed to be oodles of year left and now it's gone! Not that I've done nothing with it. Art college summer school was a huge heap of fun once I got past the "I can't draw so why do we have to draw stuff in a textiles course?" phase - answer "because you're here to learn new approaches". The tutor didn't say that, I had to

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Coburg House open studios Aug 11 057 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.One out of three days gone and lots of interest in this and the rest of my work. There's a lot more to see than my stuff of course - including a chandelier of ceramic jammie dodgers! Some along to Coburg House and see for yourself...

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microwave dyed chiffon scarves Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Well the last bunch of posts have been a bit of a catch up but what of the future? This picture shows my latest dabblings in scarf making. Silk chiffon dyed in colours and patterns inspired by tropical reef dwellers. I've also done a batch in silk pongee but the chiffon works better. The dyeing is done on one or two scarves at

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The house wine Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. June was mostly occupied by moving Mike's shop, Transreal Fiction up a hill! To celebrate we got some special wine but not until it was all installed in the new premises and open for business!

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stitch lounge inspace 058 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. In May I took part in Edinburgh's first pop-up Stitch Lounge - a drop-in sewing workshop for all ages and skills. There are some great photos  in this Flickr set and the main page is The Stitch Lounge on facebook. I took along a felt jacket I'd started in 2005 or thereabouts and finally finished it. Also made some good contacts and

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Craft Reactor Members' Showcase Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. The other big thing in the winter was the Craft Reactor exhibition. This was a showcase for all the members of the group to display (and sell) their work. I was curated by my very talented cousin, Sharon Whyte, whose prints are in the photo above. She did a fantastic job of pulling together such a disparate selection of work

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Open Studios December 2010 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Open studios was one of the big things last winter. I started work on two new styles of felt wraps - cobweb and lattice. The first of the lattice wraps were much admired and so I made quite a few more in the early part of 2011. More photos to come later. Right now I'm getting my act together and finishing a few projects in time for

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The tentacle family! Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.In April we had a visit from my brother and his family. Need I say more...

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Chemical knitting Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. This is some of the earliest science knitting I know about. It's from the University of Edinburgh's School of Chemistry museum collection. Professor Crum Brown made this to demonstrate how crystal facets intersect at the molecular level. I really need to brush up my chemistry and take a closer look to say more. I'll get the chance to do

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Snake handling! Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Well I'm a bit late and these will be pretty random short posts but here's the first of a bunch of things I've been doing recently. This was taken at the Big Bang Theory Roadshow at Edinburgh Science Festival. The snake was very tame and used to being handled. I had more fun with the giant millipede though. We went to a few other things

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It's been so long since I posted anything here that I think it's fitting to have a change of direction now.  From the beginning of this year there has been a lot going on personally, in the day job and in my studio practice. There's no way I'm going to try and write it all up here.  If you know me in real life you'll know at least some of what I'd write about.  If you don't know then it's OK 

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cyanotypes - Athens - work in progress Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Next week is a pretty crazy one for me - as well as the judging an amateur photo competition and sharing a stall at the new and eagerly awaited Earthy Craft Market, my collection of new cyanotypes goes into a gallery.From 5 November to 24 December you can see the all twelve Lace Studies and first two of the the Stones of

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To celebrate the iconic short film Powers of Ten made by Ray and Charles Eames you are invited to participate in a recreation of the picnic in the opening scene and in the creation of a communal art work representing scale in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. You can see the film Powers of Ten at intervals throughout the day on the big screen in Festival Square, Edinburgh and

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work in progress Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Just a quick post to let the world know that Rosie McKenzie and I will be sharing an exhibition in November and December in her gallery RM Art. Rosie's work is fairly abstract landscape painting and I will be showing my current collection of cyanotype lace studies. Although heavily contrasting in subject matter both sets of work share the same

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Attack of the knitted tentacles Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Well I'm not so glad it's over but I am glad of the rest! This summer has been a real rollercoaster of craft/art things, day job things, family and friends things, educational things and a completely new thing on top! So what was it all? In June there was the Craft at Coburg exhibition, a trip to the Isle of May for a friend's

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Steampunk Scarves Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Here are the scarves to go with the postcards in the last post. There are five of them, all long narrow rectangles of fine silk chiffon with hand rolled edges. I call them Steampunk Scarves because the printing technique is an early photographic process invented by John Herschel and used by Anna Atkins to create the first ever published

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Lace Postcards Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Just a quick post via flickr today. I figured it was worth commemorating the fact that I managed to tie my own shoelaces a couple of weeks ago. After several years of being too arthritic to reach my feet and then a year since my first hip replacement, I now feel supple enough to wear lace ups again! To celebrate I did some other laces as

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The great measuring. 91 cmOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. [Another post that starts with an apology - not good...] Anyway I am sorry I haven't updated the world about the results of the Trundling Knitter's efforts - I blame Facebook!The knitting walk was two miles and resulted in 91cm of I-cord being knitted. Stuart came to cheer the start of the walk and the whole route was observed by Mike

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27th April 2010 sees the coincidence of two events of personal importance, my final orthopedic examination after last year's double hip replacement surgery and World Tapir Day. I intend to mark both events simultaneously by walking the measured mile-long footpath in the Meadows in Edinburgh for the first time without my walking sticks. To make sure I can't hold a walking stick in either hand,

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Today is designated Ada Lovelace Day - a day to celebrate women who have contributed to science and technology. In the nineteenth century Ada worked on programming Charles Babbage's calculating machines using a system devised to control looms that automated the weaving of pattern in fine fabrics. She is the icon of this day on which bloggers around the world write about inspiring female

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felted crochet coral fragmentsOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. Well it's been ages since I posted anything here and I don't really know why or where to begin. I had my second hip operation in October 2009 and been recovering slowly since then. I've been far from idle over the months but not in a blogging mood. I think mostly due to post op fatigue and physiotherapy. Facebook is also partly

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Alba ad AstraOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. Mike at Transreal Fiction has agreed to extend the run of the Alba ad Astra exhibition to the end of September. All the documents, so carefully researched by Gavin Inglis and Andrew C. Ferguson of Writers' Bloc continue to be on display along side my photographs. If you thought you'd missed your chance to see this fantastic piece of research into

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Dissected SweatersOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. It's been a while since I wrote anything for the blog. The supreme effort of mounting an exhibition and getting the studio ready for the open weekend so soon after the operation really took its toll. I more or less flopped after the 9th of August and the Edinburgh Festivals have mainly passed us by this year. Mike has been writing about the

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Here's a nice shot of 0ne corner of my studio, looking uncluttered in anticipation of the Open Studios weekend which starts tomorrow. I've got examples of work from the last couple of years on display as well as a small selection of Alba ad Astra things.I'll be there from 2pm on Friday until the end of the private view and then 11am to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. Hope to see some of you

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Our next exciting open event at Coburg House Studios will be during the Edinburgh Art Festival in August 2009. The dates are 7th-9th August, and our opening hours will be 11 - 6 daily. If you would like to be added to our mailing list and receive an invitation to the private view of the exhibition please email coburg.house@yahoo.comAs well as me, there are around fifty five artists working at

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Stelarc eat your heart out - I've had a useful physical enhancement, replacing bone with cobalt-chrome alloy! My first hip replacement (4 weeks ago) seems to have been very straightforward. The second one is due before the end of the year. I'm extremely hopeful that I'll regain a lot of energy once I'm free from the pain and the drugs - until the arthritis finds a new playground! Right now, I

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Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. RM Art gallery, at 51 St Stephen's Street, Edinburgh, is about to exhibit eleven of my twelve Imaginary Invertebrates. They'll be on display from Thursday 4 June. The twelfth one is purple so didn't look right in the set. It's on show on its own in the Coburg House Gallery and will get some pink and purple friends to join it in time for the Open Studios weekend

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Both life and death have been getting more attention than the virtual world recently.At the end of April I lost an old friend to a sudden heart attack. David Johnson first came into my life in the early 1980s as my brother's composition tutor at Napier College. He was a composer, musicologist, performer, teacher, arranger and a square peg in a round hole (a bit like me). We didn't always share

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My working life has more or less been taken over by the Edinburgh International Science Festival for the next couple of weeks. My "day job" at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences includes arranging and promoting events for the festival and this year we have six of them! More than I've had to do at once since the glory days of the Edinburgh Women's Science Forum in 1995/6.If you

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Today is Ada Lovelace Day and I must fulfill my pledge to blog about women in science and technology. The brief for this plegde is very general and as a result I've drafted and discarded this post several times. I'm still not sure what I'm writing about but here I go again.I keeping with the theme of this blog I thought I'd point up some connections between technology and fibre arts and the

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Spring scarves 2 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This is the needle felted detail on the end of a medium length scarf - or what I hear the Americans call a comforter. I've found a couple of companies making exquisite light weight yarn in kid mohair and silk. The softness of the fibre belies its strength and the colours range from bold to delicate. This is my current working paletteThe main

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New tentacle pots 4 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Last Saturday was my first full day back in the studio. I've been knitting and machine felting in the interim - working on these felted pots, bowls and bottles with their various appendages. They all needed a little more attention to their details and balance (physical and colour) and that needed the space and some of the tools I only have in

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Potential Culprit!Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. 'e's the guy wot done it, Guv! Well maybe...Haven't blogged for a while partly because I've been ill on and off for around a month! Flu hit me at the end of January and for longer than I thought it would. Then, just when it seemed I was back on an even keel, Mike and I both came down with the nasty intestinal bug that was doing the rounds in

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I bought this a week ago and spent all day on Saturday playing with it. It makes tubes 44 stitches in circumference or straight pieces up to 44 stitches wide and takes up to a sort of medium chunky weight of yarn - just right for a tubular scarf but a bit narrow to make hats.Turning the handle is a bit boring but it takes the slog out of simple stuff like this. The simplicity really shows off

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IMG_0672_1 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.First new work made in the new studio :-) Back there tomorrow to tidy up and plan where the main work table will go and maybe make some prototypes of knitted felt fingerless mits as well as the sea critter inspired sculptural pots (with many green tentacles!) and jewellery to match.The long winter holiday from the office gets eaten up by family

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New Studio with stuff in it! Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Well, the move went extremely smoothly thanks to Mike and to Intransit driver Craig. I'd allowed 2 hours for all the faffing around and they had all the stuff in the building in just over 1 hour. A little communication failure over the key meant that it wasn't in the actual studio but that was sorted quickly and meant that we could

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Coburg House Open Studios Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.It's all getting very exciting. The van is booked, I'm packing up stuff in the old studio and planning what goes where in the new one. Also looking forward to making lots of new friends and seeing a bit more of an old friend. If it all goes to plan I'll have moved in enough of my tools, materials and finished work to be participating

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New StudioOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. Oh well, never did get round to posting more about the projects inspired by my trip to Greece. That's partly because my very small studio has not be condusive to developing ideas. It's also because I keep having new ones - and one of those looks like taking off (almost literally!). Its collaboration with a group of writers on a piece of fictional

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Sunset over Athens Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Well, the holiday has been and gone and it seems like I've never been away - but I had a great time visiting harbours and beaches as well as ancient monuments and Attika Parko zoo and mooching around Athens. Lots of fodder for new projects as well. At Porto Rafti, I collected some beautiful flat pebbles to incorporate in nuno felt work.

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Well it's been a while. I've been rattling around doing far too much - as usual!Alien Surfaces has been and gone, although some prints are still on display at Transreal . The images are still online at madeleineshepherd.co.uk - and and the digital ones are still for sale at ImageKind (see panel on the right). Lots of positive feedback gained and interesting contacts made. There were even a

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felt pots for rm art galleryOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. Just delivered a further set of pots and bowls and Mobius baskets to rm art at 51 St Stephen's Street, including some that have a felted hyperbolic crochet frill around the neck. Rosie is getting ready to show a new set of paintings during the Edinburgh Festival 2008 and it's well worth a visit. Also in stock are some very sleek steel

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Alien Surfaces 1Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. Hurrah! the show is open daily for the month of August!I'm completely puggled as my grandmother used to say - i.e. worn out. As well as setting up the exhibition, I've now up dated my website with the images and have created a print on demand account at Imagekind where you can buy copies of the purely digital work. You can read more about the

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London_20080613_063 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Well I've been back nearly a week and almost recovered now. I did far to much and ended up wearing out my arthritic knee plodding round London - but it was well worth it!The original US reef exhibits in the Hayward Gallery are tremendously gorgeous - especially the little beaded ones. (I feel my beading needles may have to come out again

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Ceremonial Pinning!Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. (l-r) Dr Joerg Sixt, Prof. Andrew Ranicki, me.This was at the opening of rm art (yes, it's upper case free) on Friday 6 June and was taken by Ida Thompson. Being topologists, Andrew and Joerg had come along to see my Mobius baskets. Andrew bought one of my Matisse-inspired brooches for Joerg and insisted I pin it on his lapel. It does look

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Art Gallery 2 Originally uploaded by miketransreal.Yay! Rosie McKenzie's new gallery is open and selling my work right from the start! It's a classic white cube that doesn't distract from the vibrant mixture of work on show. Being is St Stephen's Street, it's in the heart of an upsurge in interesting and accessible gallery spaces in Stockbridge. The preview was on Friday night and the gallery

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Klein BottleOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. Here is what I hope will be the first of many felted Klein bottles. I'm looking forward to many more adventures in knitted topology. Readers who know their science fiction will hopefully be interested to see my rendering of the planet from Christopher Priest's Inverted World. I plan to have it ready for my exhibition during the Edinburgh Festival

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Coral SpecimensOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. I've just sent this little lot off to be part of the UK Crochet Coral Reef project. The corals left in their padded envelope this morning, destined to meet vast numbers of their relatives in the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre in London. (on show June, July and some of August)It's part of a huge mass participation art work instigated by

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Tapirs celebrating! Originally uploaded by miketransreal.Hooray, Yesterday was World Tapir Day. We took Raffles to the zoo to meet his relatives and had a really nice day in the sun. My own photos will appear on Flickr in due course. In the meantime click on this one to follow through to some of Mike's pictures.

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dodecahedron vs.jpgOriginally uploaded by ngau83. No more to say really - except that I'm a big admirer of Norah Gaughan's work and this is why.Well yes there is more to say. I got my Ravelry account today and started poking about. I found this pretty quickly and a link to the photo on Flickr. I think I'll have a lot of fun with Ravelry but I need to start slowly and work out how best to use it

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At last another post!Loads of things have been happening and that's really why there have been no posts. Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival

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IMG_0836 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Mike said last night that the fabric of space-time probably needed a good wash. You can see here that it's looking a bit grubby - apart from the rainbow!

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Indian Rhinoceros Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Well that was Christmas and New Year again. Two and half weeks off work and only three days to call my own. Lots of family and friend stuff, major amounts of eating and drinking (though less than in previous years). I went to the zoo twice, to Tantallon Castle, to the Scottish Seabird Centre, to the local pantomime, exhibitions, shopping, big

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IMGP6469 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Yes, we have now proved that Neil Young was right!This weekend I spent two full days at Leith School of Art participating in an experimental textiles workshop. The process under investigation was rust transfer dyeing so we took piles of iron objects, scrubbed them clean, covered them in salt and vinegar, sandwich them between wet fabrics and papers,

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Well more or less - October has been pretty busy.The picture on the left is a detail of one of 17 scarves I made in response to an order from Concrete Wardrobe. The base is silk and the bulk of the felt is merino fleece. The wiggly line made from a few strands of Wensleydale locks. Wensleydale hardly shrinks at all compared to merino. Making these took most of my workshop time in October,

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Well the arts market came and went - it went well and I'll certainly do it again. As you can see I didn't get the best spot being at the back of the hall in front of some scaffolding but I did have access to power for my spotlights. Not nearly as necessary as I feared but they'll probably come into their own at a winter market.The atmosphere was so much more open and positive than the

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Here's the flyer for the art market that's happening a week on Saturday - 29 September noon to 6pm. Its at Out of the Blue Arts Centre, The Drill Hall, Dalmeny Street, Leith. Its a great image generated from some of the roof architecture in the venue.One of the baskets in the post below will be on show together with lots of Mobius scarves and wristbands, Cyberjewels, cyanotype scarves and

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Two-Mobius-Baskets Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.These little baskets are knitted in one piece and then felted (fulled if you want to be picky). The shape is a true Mobius strip but one section is stretched and shaped so you can have a one-edged one-sided surface that can contain things!One of them has gone to a good home already. The other will be on display at the Out of the Blue Art Market

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Beware of low flying bears! Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.An advance scout for the invasion of the teddy bears was seen spying out Leith for a possible landing site last weekend.

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Smoke over AthensOriginally uploaded by Ava Babili. Taken on Saturday - need I say more, after the post below...

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Well, I've been rattling round the Edinburgh Festival this last three weeks and been brought up short by a phone call from my brother this morning. You see, his home is in Papagou, an eastern suburb of Athens. The news I had heard through the roar of the local arty rammy had not suggested there was any danger to them. But no! - the fires had been within 500m of the house and the family moved

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A Bestiary of AuthorsOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. A quick snap of my exhibition just before opening - not to a fanfare or a private few(view) but to the general Monday morning in July shoppers. Sunday 29 July was spent getting the final pictures into frames and breaking my nails in the process (girly boo hoo!) then getting everything hung up at Transreal. Mike was great at accurately

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A Bestiary of Authors Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This is what Rex has in his mouth in the previous post.

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Dino Card holder!Originally uploaded by Tapirland At last a post about a current project! Mike's shop, Transreal Fiction, is ten years old this year. As part of the celebrations we took the holiday in the posts below. However since we got back I've been concentrating on the next event - an exhibition of photographs of authors we've encountered over the last ten years.It's called A Bestiary

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Zebra Horse Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.A horse wearing a zebra suit drinking coffee in a railway station! It was the first thing we noticed when we arrived at Gare du Midi in Brussels. This is a character from a graphic novel by Enki Bilal (I've forgotten which one) so technically we had seen it but never expected it to be rendered like this! It set the tone for our time in Belgium

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Le Passage Inconnu by Francois SchuitenOriginally uploaded by MadeleineS. This sculpture is over a stair well in an underground tram station. It's the intersection of a version of real Brussels with a future Brussels imagined in the 1930s. A fantastic 3D rendition of Schuiten's graphic work.

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BD5A Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Tintin and Captain Haddock and of course Snowy running down a fire escape. One of the many murals around the city that celebrate the Bande Desssine tradition. Click through the photo for more on my Flickr account.

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Galleries St Hubert Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This is about quarter of the the Galleries St Hubertus in Brussels. Before our visit we'd seen an illustration in the work of Francois Schuiten, a rather fine graphic artist whose work extends much further than the comic art he's famous for. We didn't realise it was a real place. the scale of the gallery is a bit disorienting at first and

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Malayan Tapirs Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.We went to the Zoo at Antwerp specifically to see the young tapir that we'd heard about on the Tapir Blog. Unfortunately they were playing at being boulders for most of the day. It's a prime example of zoo visiting luck. The target critters were tired and shy and probably too hot but we saw loads of things we never expected and had a great day

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Yaks Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.What more is there to say. wonderful beasts I never thought I'd see except on film. We didn't know there were any living in the zoo so it was a real treat to see them here in Antwerp.

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Sea Otter Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.The Antwerp sea otter does lots of "hydrobatics" and the glass sided pool let him show off to everyone. Yes that's my replection in the corner of the glass. Never thought I'd take my own photo with a sea otter :-)

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Railway Station Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This is Antwerp railway station - it's huge and ornate and has trains on four levels! The entrance to Antwerp Zoo is tucked in on the left of the station. We spent the whole day at the zoo - of course!

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Serres Royales Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This is one long corridor of lined with geraniums and hanging baskets of fushcias at Serre Royale, the palace glasshouses in Brussels. See the previous post for a little more info.

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Serres Royales Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This was taken in the Royal Glasshouses in Brussels. It's a stunning and enourmous complex of glasshouses that open to the public only three weeks of the year. We were lucky to by there at the right time. There's around a kilometre of path in the tour and its so big they can have tree ferns in hanging baskets! Click the photo to go to Flickr and

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Well it really is a good job I kept a diary on holiday. It's taken far too long to get back to this and finish the travellers' tales. We took the Eurostar train to Brussels on a Tuesday afternoon and almost didn't notice the Channel Tunnel. After a few days using tube trains in London it wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. Much better if they'd had windows up to the see and, of course

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Van Der Graaf Generator Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.The reason we came to London! - and well worth the effort. This is Mike's favourite band and have been for longer than we care to calculate!They opened with my favourite song - (Childlike faith in) Childhood's End - and continued in storming style for the entire set. This incarnation is saxaphone-free and so the soundspace is filled by

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Ice cream house Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.I called this the Ice Cream House because it looks like it's made from the kind of ice cream my grandparents bought in blocks. This would be mint and strawberry. It's on the Thames near Richmond. On the Monday morning we took the boat from Westminster up the river and got off at Richmond. My wreckedness from two nights before's experiences had

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Giraffe drinking a smoothie Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.This was one of the unexpected highlights of our time London. As smoothies go, this minty fruity one went really well with lunch and a walk along the South Bank with friends - some of whom we'd never met! Internet contacts meeting in "meatspace" for the first time can sometimes be a bit worrying but this was delightful. We also got

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At primary school each year after the summer break we were often asked to write a "composition" called "What I did on my holidays". I could never remember and it would have been pretty dull anyway. Now I'm all grown up I hope things will be different.I decided to keep a holiday diary of sorts. Turned out to be harder work than I thought. My handwriting has never flowed with ease and I was

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Well it's been nearly two months since I posted anything here and it feels a lot longer. We've been back from our holiday for three weeks. (all the tourist pictures are on my Flickr account).We had a great time except for the hotel we booked in London. The Albion House Hotel in Kings Cross seriously over sells itself on its website. They say it is "contemporary, stylish, elegant, luxurious",

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I have so many ideas for new creative work and so few outlets for them. The house and studio are stuffed with things I've picked up for a project and not had time to even start it. Add into the mix some academic writing, some teaching, family stuff and actually making a regular living and there's little chance of focus. It comes out like Eggs Picasso - a scrambled egg/omlette dish my mum used to

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eclipse-2 Originally uploaded by MadeleineS.Well the fact that it was clear when something interesting was happening in the night sky tempted me back to trying some astrophotography for the first time in around 30 years. My partner and I took all the kit down to the back green and stood around in the cold for half an hour while I took far too many bad pictures. Then we went for a pint and came

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studio(wide)Originally uploaded by MadeleineS. A few weeks ago I bought an expensive new machine - an embellisher. It speeds up dry needle felting enormously and opens up the range of fibres and fabrics that can be used. I'm pretty excited about it and have spent all my recent studio days making samples of different textures. There is also the possibility to draw on fabric with yarns.Click on

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Last night was the opening of Images from the Garden IX at the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh where it turns out I have two prints on display :-) I'm pleased about this as I've submitted work to this exhibition for a few years now and I never know what will be selected until the opening night. This is one of the two they picked:Pollenation (Sparrmannia africana - African hemp).Of course the

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I've just launched this blog as an experiment. It will be a bit more free form than my website www.madeleineshepherd.co.uk - though I'm not sure what direction it will take. Expect ruminations on photography and textile art and tapirs!The domain name above is the source of the blog's name. My partner decided madeleineshepherd could be read as madeleine's hepherd rather than Madeleine Shepherd

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