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Welcome to My New Website

I’ve been looking forward to launching my new website for some time…. But you know how these things go – silly things like work often get in the way! Anyway – thanks to Peter Coomb – the best web...

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Leave it to the Professionals….

I’ve just spent much of the weekend at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford and I was thinking how brilliant it was that there is at least one part of my professional field of...

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Brighton Beach Bubble

When I was young and didn’t need much sleep, the current Mr Jenkins & I used to spend hours on the seafront at Brighton watching the colours change with the rising sun and trying to capture them on...

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RA Summer Exhibition infiltrated by Art Tourists!

  It was the final day of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy today. In a break with tradition this year the RA allowed the public to take photographs in the galleries. I have mixed feelings...

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Knitting Inspiration

Those of you familiar with my other work at Greenwich Market will know how much I love looking through old knitting patterns from the 1940s for inspiration. But it’s not just the patterns I love...

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Lovely Fungus!

Did I ever tell you about my obsession with mould? Well I think you should check out some of the amazing pictures on this website and you’ll probably be able to understand my preoccupation with all...

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Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy

S.A.C.R.E.D by Ai Weiwei Studio at the RA Interesting trip to the Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Royal Academy yesterday – on the day that the Queen met the Chinese president… Walking through Chinatown...

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I’d like to thank the Americans for Halloween…

We have a tradition in our house. We carve a pumpkin every year for Hallowe’en, we use it regularly throughout the following week and it lights up our garden on bonfire night. After the fireworks are...

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Damn those cute, furry animals!

At the end of the month I will be finishing research on one of the cutest projects I’ve ever worked on. Disney Animal Friends is currently on sale in Italy and Germany, and there’s been quite a long...

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Brian Griffiths at the Baltic

Brian Griffiths’ Bill Murray exhibition at the Baltic messes with your head. It is a lovely, witty and warm-hearted interpretation of Murray’s life using ‘found objects’. One man’s rubbish is, after...

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From Mill to Mall

Trowbridge Museum entrance in Fore Street Mall in The Shires Shopping Centre In the middle of a modern shopping mall in darkest Wiltshire is a small entrance to the Trowbridge Museum. It caught my eye...

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It’s not who you are, it’s how you are Alice Theobald & Atomik Architecture...

    Now this was interesting. In the blurb about Alice Theobald & Atomik Architecture’s installation at the Baltic it states that the gallery has been designed to ‘create a series of familiar, yet...

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Old Bones

I’ve just met the oldest man in Yorkshire! Well, I think he is. He’s definitely the best fossilised bloke to emerge from beneath God’s own soil, and he’s definitely the most notable tree burial in the...

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Plague, Fire, Revolution – Samuel Pepys at the National Maritime Museum

You know what it’s like when there’s something right on your doorstep and you don’t think to have a proper look at it because you can see it anytime… and then, too late – it’s gone? Well, I was in...

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Shame on you, Greenwich Council, Ikea & English Heritage!

Sainsbury’s forward-thinking eco-store was built in Greenwich in 2000 and has won many accolades – RIBA Journal Sustainability Award Winner, RIBA Regional Award Winner, Design Museum’s Design Sense...

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Monet, Monet, Monet it’s a Gardener’s World!

I knew there was a reason I’d been avoiding the Monet to Matisse (Painting the Modern Garden) exhibition at the RA. The world assumes that everyone loves Monet and the impressionists, and it’s...

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Pebble Homage & Antony Gormley’s Land

© Sue Jenkins 2016 Pebble Homage has been going on in Aldeburgh for the last 12 months. It’s a great idea – enjoy the pebbly beach, pick up a stone and imbue it with your thoughts. Some people have...

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Normandy & the Conquerors

We’ve just spent a week of warfare in Normandy. It wasn’t our intention to have a holiday there slap bang in the middle of the D-Day commemorations, nor did we intend to rock up at Gold Beach on the...

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Newton vs Thatcher

I recently found myself in Grantham with a few hours to kill, so true to form I sought out the nearest museum… Sadly, Grantham Museum has been hit by funding cuts and this is reflected in the quality...

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National Glass Centre

I’ve been a regular visitor to the National Glass Centre for many years now. It celebrates the glass-making heritage of Sunderland in a unique building, with its unassuming, industrial entrance in...

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