Crafty Green Poet

  Juliet is thirty, her mother has just died and she has decided on a whim to leave Australia to volunteer at an art school in Baiardo, It...

In yesterday's review of The Holy Place , the poetry book from Caroline Gill and John Dotson , I said that Caroline's poem Monte T...

I thought it might be nice to revisit the altered book I made after I'd visited Italy a few years ago now. I made the book from an old...

Inspire Me Thursday's art journal challenge this week is to journal our favourite holiday souvenir. This gave me an ideal opportunity to...

The background to this page is an article about holidays in the city, so it seemed an appropriate background to a photo of Turin and some ti...

This page of the book features the Hanbury Botanical Gardens, on the coast between Ventimiglia and the French border. The background is a p...

I'm much happier with this page than with the earlier page in the book! We visited the Museo di Antichita in Torino so I've pasted a...

Now that I'm back from Italy, I'm starting to put together my first altered book. The book itself is mostly in Italian, which makes ...

I'm in Italy for three weeks from tomorrow! I'll try to update this during the International Playbus Congress, which has loads of in...

I’m running a workshop on environmental art at the International Playbus Congress in Turin on Saturday 5 November. This workshop will explor...

I've become fascinated with altered books - old books used as a base for making art journals or other pieces of art. This book is a 1970...