I’m in disbelief and denial that it’s that time of year again – a lot has happened in the last 12 months, but it seems to have happened at great speed.
So once again, I’m delighted to be exhibiting as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks: this year, as last, in the church at Kings Sutton with a group including seven painters, a textile artist, and a generative artist (whose work should be seen rather than described). The official number of the venue in the Artweeks guide is 193.
Due to a badly timed wedding, we’re opening not tomorrow but the day after, Sunday 14 May, and will then be open daily up to and including Sunday 21 May, 12-5 on the Sundays and 11-5 on other days.
I’ll be there all weekend days; on the days between I’ll be chained to a desk marking exam scripts, and I’ve sadly not quite worked out yet how to make division of myself. But my jewellery will be there whether I am or not, and there will be a warm welcome from the group, not to mention tea & cake. And if you happen to be free on one of the Sundays or the Saturday, it would be lovely to see you.
Poet & Cat 
Beste Jane,
Veel succes gewenst
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Hartelijk dank!
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Wonderful jewelry, Jane. Right up my alley. I was a jeweler for 15 years but when I moved to Mexico, decided they didn’t need another silversmith and changed my medium. Your pieces are lovely.
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Jane, I listened to your interview and reading of your poems this morning. I commented on their site, but I had to finish setting up a show today so just got home again. I felt such an affinity with both your poetry and your silver work. I was a silversmith for 15 years, doing shows across the U.S. with my artist husband. We were (and I am) both poets as well. Since moving to Mexico after his death, I have switched to constructing larger assemblage pieces but continue to write–mainly memoir, children’s books and poetry. In addition to sharing these interests, your thoughts regarding children ( I, too, elected not to have children) and the futility of attempting to create work that will last “forever” are exactly what I have been thinking of the past few years. One of my poems will go in the Polaris missile to be buried in a time capsule on the moon and for some strange reason that is reassuring to me. Just the thought of some part of me being preserved in that way appeals to that part of me that would like to go forward even after I’ve bodily left the realm. At any rate, wanted you to know your words had a great impact on me.
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Thank you so much for this – lovely to hear of your work, and that what I said resonated with you. And how wonderful to have a poem in the Polaris: that really is immortality equivalent to the pyramids. Several of the poems in Little Silver imagine our words being examined in centuries to come – something that’s disconcerting and calming in equal measure, I think! Thank you again for getting in touch. I’ll look out for your work. All very best,
Jane
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