Slow Making developed as I reflected on places and people involved with making materials that artists use all the time, and the effect this has on the environment.

Through collaborative working and conversations with artists and practitioners in coffee shops, train journeys and on walks. In Liverpool, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, UK and Croatia, Hungary and Russia. I began to develop an approach to work that has a gentle touch on the environment.

This included making choices about modes of transport and use of materials, in an effort to keep the negative effect on the natural world to a minimum.

Now almost twenty years since I started, this has become the background to my approach to almost everything I do, whether in making or living every day.

I have not bought new materials for making with in over 8 years, unless materials for weaving with  are sustainably grown and managed. I still find unexpected treasures in the mundane.

Publication - 2007

Slow Making 2007 Article published in Landscape and Arts Network Journal.

Part of the Slow Making Revolution