Art and crafts blog posts about all things art, crafts and design by Annabel Potter. Includes other artists work as well as Annabel’s and art found during her travels.
Having installed solar panels years ago and more recently getting a second hand electric car, I’m expanding my renewable energy journey with a heat pump. The solar panels have been the best investment I ever made and I love my electric car too, so cheap to run and I will never go back to polluting …
It’s that time of year when my local art group has their exhibition in Topsham school. There are a large variety of paintings to see and buy, with regular comments on the high standard. So if you’re in the Devon area I’d recommend a visit. It’s on every day 10-5pm, until midday Saturday 24th Aug, …
I’m excited to say I have an art exhibition in The Cafe in Topsham for the month of June. It’s a lovely Cafe on Fore Street and each month they have a different artist displaying their work. Such a great idea for both artists and customers who get to see and buy a variety of …
I mentioned in a previous post that I’m now upcycling glassware by painting charity shops finds. As a keen recycler I also try to reuse other items that would otherwise end up in landfill. My latest is making a bag and insoles from a battered sheepskin coat! Painting charity shop glassware has gone well and …
I managed to get to see See Monster art installation at Weston-super-Mare last week. It was great, a creative use of an old oil rig. Just very sad that it couldn’t last and is now being recycled, melted down. So for those that didn’t get to see it, here’s some photos It was a grey …
I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas, time has whizzed by since my last blog post! The good news is that all is going well at MakerMart shop, as well as online. I’ve recently been getting regular sales. This includes from Zazzle, which is great, considering I’ve not been working on it as much as I’d …
I have two pieces of good news to tell you, all of a sudden things are happening! A while ago I submitted some of my poetry to Quay voices nature writing for a performance. Last week I heard they’d like to include my poems. All very exciting and it’s on Wednesday 20th Oct 6.30-8pm at …
As mentioned in my previous post I have a new art project making video art (literally!) by recycling video cassettes. Video cassettes are very difficult to recycle, so I got the idea of reusing them as a canvas alternative. This video art has the advantage of being freestanding art or it can be placed on …
Another one of my lockdown projects was to make a fern stencil print to freshen up some wallpaper. The hall wallpaper had been scraped in a couple of places and showing green in a patch where I’d wiped it! Not exactly relishing the idea of having the whole lot repainted, I got the idea to …
Exciting changes with a new website host, which has allowed me to create a new website for international customers at reasonable cost. Find the site at my .com domain animalglassdesigns.com. It means I can now remove the duplicate zazzle.com links on my .co.uk site. Hopefully this will make it clearer, less cluttered and even speed …
