‘Breath Water Marks’ extended at Wordsworth Museum

‘Breath Water Marks’ extended at Wordsworth Museum

‘Breath Water Marks’, a small exhibition of five mobiles at the Wordsworth Museum has been extended until later this year. still 2 GUTCH_NOV2022 112 still 2 The mobiles are really enhancing the gallery spaces at Wordsworth Grasmere. People often comment...
New work in progress for ‘Still’

New work in progress for ‘Still’

The first pieces for an exhibition I am preparing for, ‘Still’, with Alice Fox, opening June 2024 at the Tinker Gallery. Images by David Lindsay.   GUTCH_HIGHRES_DEC2023 65 GUTCH_HIGHRES_DEC2023 63 GUTCH_HIGHRES_DEC2023 56 GUTCH_HIGHRES_DEC2023 55...
‘Held’ at jaggedart London, December

‘Held’ at jaggedart London, December

‘Held’, a series of mobiles inspired by Sphagnum Moss, will be exhibited at jaggedart London from Tuesday 28th November. Sphagnum Moss 1 Sphagnum Moss 1 detail Sphagnum Moss 2 Sphagnum Moss 3 Sphagnum Moss 4 Sphagnum Moss 4 detail Sphagnum Moss 5 Sphagnum...
Falling oak leaves, from 5th Oct at Tinker Gallery

Falling oak leaves, from 5th Oct at Tinker Gallery

Our series of falling oak leaves, made as a response to exhibiting and spending time at the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere, will be at Tinker Gallery, Ilkley from 5th October – 23rd December as part of a show called ‘The Written Word’.  We used a...
Design process for Ilkley fountain

Design process for Ilkley fountain

After the recent articles in The Observer, Guardian Online and Ilkley Gazette about the design for the Ilkley Fountain, we thought it might be helpful at this point for others and for ourselves if we write a note about how it is evolving. Our hope is that the design...
A kindliness of mosses

A kindliness of mosses

‘I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God’s flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss...