Susan Allen

Great to have you join last night Catherine. Lovely to spend time with Alison, Tish, @CuratorWT & all reflecting on creative approaches to #collections & the natural world, finding those #NaturalConnections @CarerSupportWC @TheOCShap #NorthernFells - thanks all for beautiful work

@AlCritchlow @tomspeight @solwaywalker @SueCumbria Big thanks to you & all the Around the Island Art Trail artists Alison. A fine way to see the #Solway and wider world through fresh eyes! Thanks too to Morag & all at #PearTreeFarm #TeaRooms - perfect base to meet up with lovely Shap Writers on trail @TheOCShap @WordsworthGras

Lovely to see so many folks at the open studio. Huge thankyou to all the visitors. Easing into Monday with coffee on the shore... #solwayfirth #lesstalkingtoday @tomspeight @SolwaySusan @solwaywalker @SueCumbria

@AlCritchlow @arts_cumbria @TaraVallente @cumbriatourism @OpenStudioComms @SolwayAONB @solwaywalker So looking forward to the #Art Trail Alison and all involved in Around the Island. The brilliant #Shap #Writers @theocshap @WordsworthGras are all geared up for visiting too! Always so inspiring - the studios, work, conversations and wonderful #Solway landscapes

I'm opening my studio as part of Around The Island Art Trail, 17-18th and 24-25th September. Small but prefrectly formed art trail beside the Solway Firth. All welcome!#openstudio @arts_cumbria @TaraVallente @cumbriatourism @OpenStudioComms @SolwayAONB @SolwaySusan @solwaywalker

This wonderful book sparked some wonderful conversations at our #Allhallows #Readers group @WordsworthGras - and has also encouraged some new readers! What a joy they have in store

@LorenCafferty @halekatie @MWCravenUK @cakesandalecafe Such a great place Loren - and rather fine writers too @cakesandalecafe @halekatie @MWCravenUK

@halekatie @MWCravenUK @cakesandalecafe I didn’t know this existed!

Hanging out with James Joyce and @MWCravenUK at @cakesandalecafe.

Mr. Joyce in great company in the garden #Cakes & #Ale @halekatie

@CuratorWT @WordsworthGras Only today, enjoying a wonderful #NaturalConnections day @RuskinsFriends with @CumbriaUni @VisitGrizedale @AllanBankNT @MuseumDevNW @CMailhac, we spoke of making our own charcoal and ... ink! And now we all can. Thanks @CowtonJ @WordsworthGras. Next #Poetry #Paint @AlCritchlow ??

A curious crunchy concoction. (You need the sound on). Making iron gall ink 2022 @WordsworthGras. Oak galls, iron sulphate, gum arabic and water from the stream near Dove Cottage. Then rest for three days. Using Dorothy Wordsworth's own recipe.

Great evening tonight exploring the Ridiculous in #Romanticism and beyond! Thanks to Andy McInnes, Rita Dashwood and @CowtonJ A great take, can't wait to see the exhibition @WordsworthGras

@TraceyJRobbins You too Tracey and all @edencommunities @EdenMorecambe #BigJubileeLunch Have a great day!

Really excited to be here for #HM70 talking on the telly (!) About #TheBigJubileeLunch hope you all have an amazing day 💜

@AlCritchlow Got that from your blog!

@SolwaySusan Thanks Susan, love the idea of unknown future.

Great to share your thinking & work in progress Alison; your process in action, in a dance with Hedda Sterne, Virginia Woolf! Love your white floor staging - the different energy shifting the work about can spark - and Sterne not overthinking, editing later for an unknown future

Yes, a wonderful, inspiring, fun #NaturalConnections @CumbriaUni #Ambleside day with thanks to all - including the Currant Gall! See you all again soon @WordsworthGras @CMailhac @VisitGrizedale @RuskinsFriends

From #MossHut @WordsworthGras to #LivingWillow arbour #ThrostleNestPark in Wigton A great #Spring day with @WCumbriaCarers. Thanks so much to Phil Bradley basketmaker & brilliant willow weaver, Wigton Town Council and all at wonderful #Wigton for #Wildlife

@WordsworthGras @britishlibrary @Carcanet @nassr_romantics @BSECS @Wordsworthians Such a wonderful conversation this evening of all evenings when #friendship & #humankindness are so keenly in focus - a joy to be listening to Lucy Newlyn, Samantha Frank & @CowtonJ. Thank you

Tonight we're exploring some of Dorothy's most important relationships... as well as looking at the manuscript of 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud', which is on loan from @britishlibrary as part of their 'Treasures on Tour' programme! Tickets: bit.ly/3ATZ2fR

"Fair seed-time" here at Bolton Low Houses with huge thanks @TomWGarner for wonderful Wordsworth & Microscopy workshop with #JuliaGarner and @circlecross73. Here are fossil seeds from the time Hadrian's Wall was built! Thanks too to Northern Fells @WordsworthGras @ace_national

Beautiful image from your #dailywalk. Powerful words @TraceyJRobbins Thanks to all of you #FestivalofDiscovery @edencommunities & everyone who joined @AlCritchlow & myself @WordsworthGras for some inspiring conversation & shared responses to #ByNatureLed Keep on #hedgewhispering

@AlCritchlow @solwaywalker @OpenStudioComms @CarlisleTIC @Solwayconnecti1 @SolwayAONB @butnorain @arts_cumbria Fascinating to see the work, talk to the artists and look again at this beautiful part of the world through fresh eyes - thanks @AlCritchlow and all #AroundTheIsland #arttrail Wonderful way to spend a weekend!

Last day of Around the Island Art Trail today. All studios open 11 - 5 if you fancy a trip to Bowness on Solway. #openstudio #arttrail @solwaysusan @solwaywalker @OpenStudioComms @CarlisleTIC @Solwayconnecti1 @SolwayAONB @butnorain @arts_cumbria

#ShapWriters enjoying sunshine, cake & #poetry in fabulous courtyard at Pear Tree Farm Tea Room. With thanks to Morag, the writers @TheOCShap @WordsworthGras and all the amazing artists on the Around the Island Art Trail this weekend & next with @AlCritchlow and all!