I’ve just finished a public art commission - 2 murals in the Teddington Health and Social Care Centre.

I’ve just started a series of family learning workshops at Ham House - we will be creating a permanent timeline exhibit to celebrate the house’s 400th anniversary. For the first session I made badges for everyone, randomly allocating them a character from the house’s fascinating history.

I went to London Zoo this afternoon to deliver the hand-made giant book I have been making for the education department.

It’s a story about one of the zoo’s ferrets, Toffee, visiting all the other animals in the zoo to find out about how they live.

Anne will take both the book and the real-life Toffee with her when she goes to visit schools to explain about the Zoo’s work.

Anne and Sophie (above) were both really pleased with the outcome.

The book is entirely hand-made and a mixture of collage, ink, watercolour and acrylic on Somerset paper, with Japanese binding.

I’ve been making lots of penguins for the hand-made book I am making for London Zoo’s education department - it’s all about the zoo’s ferret, Toffee, meeting the other zoo animals.

Just getting the last things ready for my show, which opens tonight at The Old Sweet Shop and runs until 31st October.  I have a very messy desk!

I’ve been preparing the publicity materials and posters for my show in October at The Old Sweet Shop. It’s called Compendium and is about animals playing games.

Life models Billy and Mabel visited the studios today. 

We fed them strawberries and drew them.

It was like having two little clockwork toys on my desk all day. Thanks for the loan, Cathy!

Today was the launch of the story boat at Morden Hall Park - and the end of the London Voices project with the National Trust. Sculptor Simon Kent carved the boat in panels of solid oak from Sherwood Forest, working to designs I produced using the drawings, prints and poems created by the families from Liberty School in Mitcham during the workshop sessions earlier in the year. The launch was a great event, with over 250 people coming along throughout the day, and joining in with activities like making mini-boats (Suha, above, made three despite having a broken wrist!), playing eels out and listening to exciting and adventurous tales on the boat with storyteller Diana.

It was a great way to end a project that has been wonderful to work on from start to finish. The boat looked amazing and it was so exciting to see it finished for the first time. Simon also made five free-standing sculptures to act as bases for the game ‘Eels Out’ - below is the vole. We also presented the letterpress posters featuring the families’ poems that I made a few weeks ago with Ross and Jon from JMG Studio - each family and everyone involved was given one to keep as a special souvenir of the project.

In a couple of weeks I will be visiting a school in north London for a project with ArtisanCam. A class of year 6 pupils will be getting a visit from a live macaw from London Zoo, then making a book inspired by the experience. Today I’ve really enjoyed making a demonstration model, using a selection of jumbled up words and paper collage.

This week I have been settling in to the new studio space at The Old Sweet Shop.