I have an ongoing battle trying to embroider roses and feel I never quite capture that certain roseness of a rose. Quite often they turn out more like peonies or poppies and even my best attempts have a certain squashed quality as if they’ve been sat upon or have emerged flattened from decades lying […]

  Last week, the kitchen table in London was awash with items of school uniform as preparations for the new school year were underway. Clothes needed to be named, some of those already named for someone else need to be re-named and those marked with now-faded permanent marker needed to be made visible once more. […]