wildfennel

An art historian in a previous life, I relocated from Milan to Reading at the end of last century in the pursuit of painter John Singer Sargent.

I have three loves in my life: art, photography and writing. Knitting comes in as one of the arts that make my eyes twinkle and my hands itchy.

 Usually, my knitting starts as something that takes some other shape in the making, like the mug cozy that became a wrist warmer or the cape that downsized to a Tudor collar. I am attracted to colour, texture and pattern and I am not afraid to experiment and be led astray.

Ideally, I would love to be locked in the Victoria & Albert Museum for a whole night. I would have dinner with Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Gamble and Poynter Rooms, wearing a Missoni gown and Prada knitted stockings, followed by a tour of the galleries, while Cecil Beaton is taking pictures and sipping a martini.  We would end up in the new ceramics rooms admiring Midcentury modern pottery – another favourite source of inspiration.

I also have a flickr page that I use as my visual diary – images always come to me before words do. http://www.flickr.com/photos/28389487@N03/