quietly creating

Barbara Wanhill

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Category: photography

  • State of the art

    To be honest, 2024 has been a year of mostly suppressed disappointment and envy. However; with enough holiday downtime, sugar consumption and serendipitously spontaneous creative opportunities; the last few days have helped me realize that my personal state of art can be thriving if I look at it with an open mind and open heart.…

  • Did you lose this?

    I have to give my parents credit for blasting through their 50s with such energy and conviction. (Or perhaps they were very good at hiding it.) So far, I haven’t felt as successful. At the end of March, we rented a well-appointed Airbnb cabin in a forest in the mountains. It was 3 days of…

  • Mobile

    I sold my Ashford Joy this spring. For a variety of reasons, I believed I needed to move on from my interest in visually exploring spinning fibre. Previously, I had gifted one of my Turkish spindles to a lovely, masterful spinner in Europe. And, I bought more printmaking ink – which I will admit, has…