Susan Allen

Love living in Cumbria, working with great people at the Wordsworth Trust and all around the county. Took me 50 years to move back, so glad I did! Views my own

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Alison Critchlow @AlCritchlow]

@CMailhac @SolwaySusan @WordsworthGras Thanks Catherine. Pleased you enjoyed it last night.

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@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

[Alison Critchlow @AlCritchlow]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@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

[Alison Critchlow @AlCritchlow]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[The Children Of Green Knowe Appreciation Society @TheKnowe]

#TheChildrenOfGreenKnowe
#childrenofgreenknowe
#lucymboston
#PeterBoston 💚

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@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 ??

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@AlCritchlow Got that from your blog!

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Alison Critchlow @AlCritchlow]

Latest blog post here, sharing recent studio adventures. This is the fifth in an evolving series charting my Hedda Sterne project @TaraVallente @tomspeight @SolwaySusan @RomaTearne https://t.co/wkahcEqA4X

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

"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

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

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

[Tracey Jane Robbins @TraceyJRobbins]

#FestivalOfDiscovery #hedgewhispering my first few lines feel free to continue it inspired by photo: Overthrown by moss, green dutiful solders stand their ground, the oak, the Ash their fruits lain ....

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

@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!

[Susan Allen @SolwaySusan]

#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!