by Helen Brain | Dec 13, 2016
This is my dog Isidingo. I love her more than any dog I’ve ever owned. We adopted her at the saddest point of my life, when my husband Luke was dying, and she has been at my heels ever since, following me from room to room, and sleeping next to my bed at night....
by Helen Brain | Dec 13, 2016
This year my creativity has been attacked from an unexpected quarter. In February we adopted a puppy from a shelter. Harry was a happy, sweet, golden mishmash of Africanis, Labrador and Great Dane staring up at us from the puppy pen and whining that he’d chosen us....
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
I found these in a charity shop. I was amused by the way I could create a narrative by putting the scary revolving head dolly in front of the framed postcards of the Dutch children. I ended up buying them of course, to add to the piles of junk -with – potential...
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
I’m starting Book 3 of Elevation, and for months I’ve been thinking about the Gods that inhabit Celestia and what they look like. I fell in love with Agosia Arts’ folk doll creations – human body, animal head, and I started to make one using her method. I created the...
by Helen Brain | Aug 27, 2016
Harry the puppy has also attacked anything I’ve made. I started making amigurumi animals this year and they’re a pain because they’re small and fiddly and take hours. I’d work away in the evenings while we watched TV and then I’d get tired and go to bed and leave them...
