garden delights – My Blog

self imposed torture

1 Nov

WEEK FORTY TWO & FORTY THREE ( october 16-29) Deadlines are pressure to work. The self imposed deadline of December 1 for the opening of The December Gallery is scarily close. I have until then to finish all the work ... Read more »

many ways of revisiting ordinary, special times.

12 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY SEVEN (july 3-9) In such a lovely wet week the only downside for me was that I didn’t choose times for a walking/unfurling my tight back muscles – I’d look out, see the sun, quickly finish a section ... Read more »

so many photos

28 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-SEVEN (november 21-27) Finally the Mongolia photos have all been through a first round of processing and editing. There was a BIG pile of deleting but there are also a very large amount of ‘bad’ photos kept because they ... Read more »

so what do I want to be now?

25 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-NINE (july 18-24) The start of the week, post sale, feels quite freeing…my mind wanders around the ‘what do I want to be now’ territory that I always enjoy at the end of a project. The feeling is compounded ... Read more »

to consider/or not consider/over-considered?

11 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN (july4-10) Creativity? Not this week. A bit of slog/whip cracking is needed to get last week’s cushion covers advancing… They are still not finished but getting close…. these are still not considered/over-considered pieces like I usually would do ... Read more »

last piece of the puzzle

5 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-SIX (june 27-july3) It took much longer than it should have but finally, with the last piece of the puzzle in hand – the curator’s essay – the complete twentyONE+ website is live. Something that looks so effortless thanks ... Read more »