#925 theoldmortuary ponders.

Live blogging on the theme of Orange.

Drawn to the Valley, Artist and Makers Group has become very plugged-in to the Arts and Making culture of Plymouth, in recent years. The current Spring Exhibition opened this morning in a new-to-us venue. The Market Hall Devonport.

I will be here a few times so I thought choosing a colour theme would keep things spicy and interesting. My apologies to artists whose Orange moments have not been captured. The reflections in this magnificent exhibition space are quite tricksy. Hopefully you will get your colour moment in a different hue.

First up Jayne( Poster Girl) Ashenbury.

©Jayne Ashenbury

Next, Michael Jenkins Satsumas.

© Michael Jenkins

Just gorgeous when served with Debra Parkinson’s ducks.

©Debra Parkinson

Which in turn might interest a ginger cat.

©Steve Savage

Or even a leopard.

©Ali Fife Cook

Now  there is a small struggle to find a link from a Leopard to an Opium poppy but Tibet comes to mind, thank goodness.

©Neil Mawdsley

And the link for the last Orange of the blog is Orange edges.

©Nuala Taylor

And just for orange sake. The seat where I wrote this and a visitor serendipitously provided a pop of orange.

#924 theoldmortuary ponders.

The Studio window.

It was delivery day for an exhibition yesterday.

For once I was completely ready . No last-minute tweaking for me.  Which was just as well as a friend of mine had her own disaster. An escaped Peridot.

Her Peridot escaped as she was finishing a necklace. Not in the normal run of things a big problem but she was tweaking the night before she was due to deliver her work to me and then fly off to Greece.

She arranged a Peridot delivery to my house and gave me easy to follow instructions to follow for me to tweak on her behalf.

My tweazers had quite the day. Not for them the normal chore, the pulling of a stray chin hair. Oh no, they became artisanal tweezers, craftsperson tweezers. Tweezers of importance. Tweezers in the spotlight.

And for just a moment I experienced the joy of being a jeweller.

Sometimes it is a surprise, even to me, what goes on in the studio.