Journal

Here you’ll find my ramblings on things that interest me on my artist journey; art, random musings, wildlife, nature, my works, and even what happens behind the scenes.

I love sharing my experiences and keeping you updated on what’s happening in my creative world. It’s not just about keeping you in the loop, but also helps me to remember and reflect on the moments along the pathway (the older I get, the more I forget!)

Bearded Reedling in the reeds

Big hills and bearded reedlings

Dormouse Fundraiser for the PTES

Dormouse Fundraiser for the PTES

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust

The beauty in the perceived mundane

The beauty in the perceived mundane

Bempton Cliffs

Bempton Cliffs

The Bees Knees

The Bees Knees

More birdy babies!

More birdy babies!

Baby Blackbird

Baby blackbirds!

Nature has given me a reminder today.

Nature has given me a reminder today.

Cask the hedgehog ready for release

Latest Hedgehog News

Tools of the Moorcroft trade - tubeliner and a pattern

Moorcroft Workshop

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Tour

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Tour

Violet Oil Beetle

Violet Oil Beetle

Walkabout on Bempton Cliffs

Walkabout on Bempton Cliffs

Lapwings!

Lapwings!

Puffin making workshop at RSPB Bempton Cliffs

Puffin making workshop at RSPB Bempton Cliffs

Duck Rescue Mission

Duck Rescue Mission

Siskins!

Siskins!

A hare sat amongst a grassy field

A Hare-Raising Encounter

The Curlews are back!

The Curlews are back!

Sheffield Ceramics Festival

Sheffield Ceramics Festival

An improbability of Bronze Puffins

An improbability of Bronze Puffins

The Kingfisher sculpture is dead. Long live the Kingfisher sculpture!

The Kingfisher sculpture is dead. Long live the Kingfisher sculpture!

Puffin sculptures Billy and Arthur in the furnace

Puffin sculptures Arthur and Billy get cast in bronze

The ceramic shell in the furnace during the making of a lost wax bronze puffin

Flippy Flappy lost his wax - bronze casting Puffins

The age of bronze - my first bronze sculpture

The age of bronze - my first bronze sculpture

It’s not just practice

It’s not just practice

Why the moulds weren't for me - video

What about the moulds? Make It At Market?

Dom Chinea the presenter of Make it at Market stood next to one of my hare sculptures and two ceramic birds

I’m on the tellybox! - Make it at Market

Things are looking up!

Things are looking up!

By ‘eck! I’m in’t Yorkshire Post!

By ‘eck! I’m in’t Yorkshire Post!

Sarah Brabbin pointing at her picture at the 2022 British Art Prize Exhibition

Visiting my artwork in London - British Art Prize 2022

The British Art Prize 2022

The British Art Prize 2022

Young rescue hedgehog in a pet carrier awaiting release

Baby Brabbin Hedgehog gets his freedom

The British Wildlife Centre Visit

The British Wildlife Centre Visit

Little Ratty

Little Ratty

Things Just Got Bigger

Things Just Got Bigger

Little Vole amongst leaves and ferns

Latest wildlife garden arrivals

Large ceramic hare sculpture in my front car seat with safety belt on

A Tale of Two Large Ceramic Hare Sculptures

Mould Making in Stoke On Trent

Mould Making in Stoke On Trent

A reminder to reconnect

A reminder to reconnect

Milly the hedgehog in the hands of a hedgehog rehabilitator

Milly & Lilly Rescue Hedgehogs

Not Without My Ghosts

Not Without My Ghosts

Vincent the ceramic hare sculpture - a blue raku fired hare washing his face

The making of Vincent the ceramic hare sculpture 2022

A brown hare sitting in a grassy field with the sunlight behind it

Saint Melangell – Patron Saint of Hares

A seal pup at Donna Nook Nature Reserve

Donna Nook Seals

Tawny Owl drawing in black and white

Tawny Owl Neighbour

Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that make the biggest impact.

Sometimes it’s the smallest of things that make the biggest impact.

a clay sculpture of a leaping hare

The last sculpting session at The Sculpture Lounge

two clay owl concepts in a training room

Sculpture Lounge Learning - more owls