What an experience at #rhsurbanshow. Blown away by the creativity and talked to so many creatives and gardeners. This will become part of my gardening calendar for sure!!

A tiny, rare fragment of wild native habitat around a rushing river at Puleen, Beara. These places exist only because they're inaccessible to sheep + other grazers. We *know* what's required for nature to return. #Rewilding 🌎

Staffordshire oatcakes in today's Observer! By local photographer , David Fletcher. Made me all nostalgic for my adopted home.

Editing AI transcripts of reminiscences raises so many questions! Who is Jesus Parks? Why match golf in Florida? Or god witch points? Who are the certain big people who had covered round? AI has made it all so intriguing!! There's a alternative art project in this!

Always fascinating to see what artists create in their sketchbooks and journals. This is a lovely addition to the Welcome Collection.

This Sunday folks! 11-3pm, so you'll be back in time for THAT match ⚽😜. It's a chance to meet some of the artists and view the facilities that are available to both members and non members #artistsoninstagram #ArtistsOfTwitter #Staffordshire

Good to see you today😊

It's always interesting to see what turns up in a group studio - today's mystery appearance is a drum kit!

Tracing plans today, to give a framework to the cartographs.

"When the fire was going, we said BOOM! that's your whiskey gone. BOOM! That's your brandy gone." Reminiscence from the day of the fire. HLF memory mapping project at Betley Court Gardens.

We have a special weekend of talks to mark five years since the devastating fire that destroyed Betley Court 24/25th Aug. Join us to hear about the rebuild. £15pp incl tea and cake. Booking necessary betleycourtgardens.co.uk for details #enjoystaffs #staffordshire

Drawing the shell of Betley Court after the fire. Experimental framework for a memory map of the day of the fire.

Utterly beautiful 😍

Fab afternoon watching @claybodytheatre in Bright Lights Over Bentilee. Funny, scary and moving in equal parts. Loved Polly Lister as Beverley, dinnerlady to the stars! Can't wait to see what @mca_debbie & co come up with next!

Latest drawings for the Betley Court Gardens memory mapping project about the fire in 2019. Stylised depictions of fire and smoke, ink on tracing parchment.

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

Turning a site survey into a scale base plan and then a design for B Arts and Festival Stoke to rescue a neglected street corner. Exciting times! #artist #urbangarden

Taking a base plan of a site - Hartshill Road (or the (A)Isle of Brides as it's nicknamed!) and working through site appraisal, initial design and planting plan. Prep for B Arts Festival Stoke to cheer up neglected street corners and make them Pockets Paradises!

A colour mood board inspired by Minton Hollis tiles. Going to use this as the basis for a planting plan #urbangarden B Arts Festival Stoke

Wise words