Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed, commented and got in touch about the shape of words so far. it's considerably later in...

Tomorrow (25.01.21) the Shape of Words gallery will launch on niziblian.com Finally you will be able to see the beautiful images taken by...

In Welsh it's pronounced 'vynt', with a hard 'i' sound. I'm glad I heard it before seeing it written down, or I think my set connotations...

Gwybod (goo-bod) means 'to know'. I like the word very much indeed, it feels nice to say. Having said that, it gives me a kind of creepy...

The Llaeth/Milk piece is ready to go to be hallmarked now. It is a legal requirement for silver pieces this heavy to be sent to an assay...

Hwyl (pronounced like oil with H at the start), was the second word I chose to make into a piece of jewellery, and the most definite...

There has been a lot on my sensory dislikes so far, but I have so many sensory loves, seems only fair to list a few of my favourites. 1:...

Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions, I am unable to get access to the pictures of my brothers and I wearing the items described in...

It's been an incredibly busy month. I am probably around a third of the way through making the pieces for the exhibition. I'm taking...

Pili-Pala (sometimes seen without the hyphenation) is the Welsh for Butterfly, and a fantastic word it is too. My immediate response to...

Two of the shapes that will be in this jewellery collection popped into my head pretty much fully formed. One of them is Llaeth, meaning...

On some Saturdays in the late 70s and warly 80s, Mrs Russell (see previous post) would take me to town. Another reason Russy was bliss to...

Having explored my least favourite textures, the felt itself isn't visually as successful as I want in invoking the sensory...

Mrs Russell, or as she is/was in my head 'my Russy', was Norah May Russell. Russy lived next door to us. She was my best friend, she...

Thinking of materials

I must be around 2 as I am being put in a push chair in the porch. I can see it raining through the glass. I have on a hateful, hateful...

The seed of this project came about from a frustrating day. You know, if you are here, that I make jewellery. You may or may not know I...