Author: Catherine Barker-Sheard

I seem a bit obsessed with the weather and seasons at the moment. I think all the news items about global warming, floating icebergs with stranded polar bears, flooding, storms etc has got into my head a bit!! This one is entitled ‘Spring Rising’.

Another collage for the exchange. These have been such fun to do – love it 🙂

In a recent magazine, New Scientist probably, there was an article about the percentage of rams that are gay. Fascinating stuff. The scientists are trying to figure out what causes homosexuality in sheep, not so they can prevent it, just so they have more understanding. Interesting stuff.

It got me thinking about all kinds of thing; numbers, percentages, religion, prejudice. Before I knew it, a collage was born – and I don’t know if it is gay or not!!!

Another collage, this time using a toner photocopy, acrylic glazes, gel pen, pieces out of magazines, cardstock and gel medium.

I did this as a tribute to greater minds than mine!! Although I love weird science and maths, and read things like New Scientist and Scientific American, I’m not very good at it. Fascinated but hopeless basically LOL

Another in the collage series – spent much of the day playing with paper, glue, paint etc. Excellent.

Then the resthome rang to say my Aunt had a wee stroke, fell and may have broken a hip. Spent the rest of the day at A&E trying not to let her confuse the medical staff – because of her dementia some of her answers are not exactly reliable!! No broken bones as it turns out, so that’s all good.