Cambridge Open Studios Preparations in Milton

Cambridge Open Studios is now looming on the horizon, with our weekends starting in just five weeks. I picked up boxes of guides for us, Alison and Marie & Richard from Cheryl and had a chance to look at her studio and jewellery.  I was particularly interested in the silver etching method that she used with photos or gifs as subjects - I could see some possibilities there. Delivered Alison's box of guides to her and chatted briefly about her advice on the leaflet with all the Milton Studios that Jane was preparing for all of us artists in Milton.

Jane and I visited Richard and Marie in the afternoon to see their exhibition space and work in progress.

You can find all our Milton Studios at https://www.camopenstudios.co.uk/cos-search/a-to-z-grid, we are studios 97 to 101 (97 - Alison Hullyer; 98 - Chris, Jane and Louise Thomas; 99 - Cheryl Bird, Linda Bartlett and Marnie Bird; 100 - Marie Georghiou and Richard Morgan; 101 - Rhiannon Thomas.

Sky and Channel 4 broadcast the unusual split interviews of Conservative Theresa May and Labour Jeremy Corbyn. Rather than appearing on stage together, Jeremy came on first, taking questions from the audience and then being grilled by Jeremy Paxman, Then Theresa went through the same procedure. Neither gained a knock-out blow against the other. No news yet on the impact on polls, up to last Friday, Labour was gaining steadily at 35% but the Tories still had the lead at 44%.

Angela Merkel's public comments on the fact that it was now impossible to completely rely on others, on issues of security and climate change have been reported internationally. These included intitial remarks at a beer festival that penetrated through to the US and then later comments at a conference on sustainable development in Berlin.