A valley with no roads

We drove the long way round. Passed Elterwater, Rydal, Grasmere, Thirlmere and Derwent, stopping where the road came to an Continue reading →

The Sadness of Scything

The following photos are the workings of my time as a Merz DIY 2013 artist-in-residence, in Langdale Valley of the Continue reading →

Merz Windows

Photographs by Anna Sikorska, DIY 13 resident

Summer Begins…

Merz DIY 13 summer school preparations are well under way… The parachute is up, outdoor studio has been erected and Continue reading →

Cylinders

Cylinders Estate, Elterwater Harry Pierce, a locally well known landscape designer who had worked with the influential firm of Lakeland Continue reading →

[Notes] The Village

[Notes] The Village Paris 1972. Things had been going badly in the studio. Optimism, which had made transforming the closed-down Continue reading →

Merz Pavilion

DIY 13: Architecture Workshop with Natasha Reid Permanence, transience, resonance Kurt Schwitters was an innovator in many art forms, but Continue reading →

[Notes] Proposals

[Notes] Proposal A good storyteller tells his tales from the beginning to the end, as a dramatised progression in time, Continue reading →