....and the old driftwood tree comes out of the tool shed...is dusted down and the spiders webs cleared away before it's once again in pride of place in the big gallery window at The Potters House Penketh.
On go the twinkling lights...a job for the potter...aka Alan Snape.
...ooops!...why is it always the fragile ones that slip out of your hands!...still beautiful in it's shards of fine glass...
After our visit this year to the autumn Chelsea...inspired by the work in the main tent... I started collecting the autumn leaves as they fell from the gingko tree in the garden...pressing them in old art books...always heavy!...and stringing them in chains for the gallery windows.
...some japanese acer leaves found their way into the strings too...
..a choir of angels echo the message of hope
...nothing to make you ashamed...
In the window....ceramic camel £150 : ceramic angels £20 : Large penguin with gold crown £170 : small penguin with gold crown £110 : ceramic polar bear £180 : individual ceramic letters £150 : HOPE £450 Icon.."Christ Pantocrator" £150 : ceramic hare £180 : Box assemblage ceramic hand £150 : ceramic stars £20 : Globed angel £150 : small driftwood christmas trees £20 : chain of pressed leaves £10 ..and so much more inside.
More work can also be seen at Technically Brilliant Art in The Golden Square Mall, Warrington.
and
The Buckenham Gallery Southwold, Suffolk.
Today the sun is shining...although these are often called "the dark days"...but there is always hope and so that is my wish for all of us this Christmas.....
"And hope doesn't put us to shame..." Rom 5:5
Much love
Geraldine
