by Ruby Taylor | Mar 12, 2022 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery
I talk with Kim Winter, editor at the Basketmakers Association, about my practice. KW: How did you get into making baskets with foraged materials? The training I had at degree level (3D Craft, Brighton Uni) was formative, being materials led. I remember in the first...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 16, 2021 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery
I talk with the founder of Plants & Colour, Flora Arbuthnott, about how I approach working with wild gathered materials in my creative practice. Intimacy with the landscape, the living world, plants, earth, other creatures, has always been meaningful to me as a...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 3, 2021 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry
These painted lady butterflies are soon to arrive in the UK and their migration story is truly amazing. I read about it recently in Lia Leendertz’s Almanac, here’s the excerpt: “High above our heads, great clouds of painted lady butterflies are...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 12, 2019 | All Journal Entries, Wild Basketry
One of the first things you notice about Owen Jones, apart from his friendly, relaxed demeanor, is his hands: huge and work-worn. They’ve definitely seen some years of graft. I’m at his workshop in Cumbria, to make an oak swill. This is a traditional split...
by Ruby Taylor | Nov 26, 2018 | All Journal Entries, Stonehenge / Heritage
A crisp cold November morning and I’m meeting a group of archaeologists at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth for a day of basketmaking. During our discussions and through the making itself, a couple of very interesting revelations happen over the day, which make...
by Ruby Taylor | Sep 1, 2018 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery
In conversation with No Serial Number Magazine, a publication which explores environmental sustainability through traditional crafts and innovative design. We discuss my practice: my relationship to the landscape where I forage my materials, and about coping with the...