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Amy McCarthy
Aug 5, 20141 min read
A Toast to the Hosts!
This week I am enjoying the hospitality of Adele and Mike Yates, in their wonderful historic home ‘Mallards’. Their son Ben Yates has his...
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Amy McCarthy
Aug 3, 20141 min read
Small Town Vandals wont spoil our show!
Several of the sculptures in our TRAIL were vandalised last night, I think it is the first time we have really been affected in this way!...
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Amy McCarthy
Jul 26, 20141 min read
Checking on the sculptues
It’s summer on the South Devon coast and the 10th year of TRAIL (Teignmouth recycled art in landscape). I enter every year and this year...
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Amy McCarthy
Jun 25, 20141 min read
Art in the Sun
Very much looking forward to this exhibition/sculpture garden celebrating summer in the Devon Countryside! Its a kid friendly, laid back...
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Amy McCarthy
Jun 22, 20141 min read
Aloha Teignmouth!
The outside world keeps on turning and Gloss Gallery summer show is already up and running, which I am pleased to be part of and as the...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 6, 20132 min read
The big reveal!
I picked the tree trunk up in 3 and 6 inch cross sections, with quite a lot of wild life attached and I must confess it was a bit...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 2, 20121 min read
My tree has turned into a monster, but you can still add your wishes to it!
Anyway, it really doesn’t look like a tree any more; more like a Fraggle Rock monster! But it is now safely erected in my garden, wishes...
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Amy McCarthy
Aug 11, 20121 min read
An awful lot of wishes
Literally hundreds of wishes have been tied to my tree, at least 4 pairs of curtains, an old double duvet cover and goodness knows what...
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Amy McCarthy
Nov 7, 20111 min read
Art for Charity’s sake
It took me 5 and a half hours but I eventually hung 80 recycled fused glass raindrops from the afore mentioned mosaic cloud; made from an...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 15, 20111 min read
Another day, another open studio!
I have also completely cemented my mermaid panel and I will clean that up in the morning……more on that tomorrow. So now I am off to back...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 10, 20111 min read
Open Studios Day 6:Bubbly and nibbles!
I managed to get my raindrops sculpture up in the garden this morning and spent the day threading the raindrops back on whilst chatting...
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Amy McCarthy
Jul 16, 20111 min read
Under the Weather
Every year I make use of my scrap waste glass (a by product of my stained glass business) and this year was no exception, I pieced...
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Amy McCarthy
May 9, 20112 min read
Empty paint pot appeal!
TRAIL (Teignmouth Recycled ART In Landscape), which runs over the summer holidays from Shaldon to Dawlish. The exhibition is wonderfully...
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Amy McCarthy
Sep 2, 20101 min read
I have won an award!
My boat s None of this has quite sunk in yet, but I am very, very chuffed to say the least! TRAIL has been extended till the 19th...
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Amy McCarthy
Aug 5, 20101 min read
What a cow!
Finally finished my Dairy There will be better photos when it is in position in Morrisions Taunton, but at 2.5m long it takes up most of...
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