Veronica Pock | Handwoven textiles

Riotous colour October: a month of abundance and plenty. The trees laden with apples, nature’s bounty; the flowering plants now heavy with seed, preparing for the future, ripe with possibilities.… Read more

Under tension September has been a busy month and has flown by. A return to the rhythm of school routine, sunny days and darker mornings with the equinox bringing a… Read more

Potential As summer softens into autumn, the mornings are liminal with mist and bejewelled cobwebs. The flowers of high summer are beginning to fade, and dahlias come into their own,… Read more

Azure, cerulean, lapis lazuli, cyan, aquamarine If I had to choose a colour for July, this year it would be blue. Sky blue, azure, periwinkle, lapis lazuli, cyan and sapphire,… Read more

Petrichor The coming of rain is heralded by ‘petrichor’. From the Greek ‘Petra’ (stone) and ‘ichor’ (the ethereal blood of the gods), this distinctive scent is the smell of oils… Read more

Into high summer The hedgerows are full, the cow parsley is billowing, and the fields are full of buttercups. There’s a sensation of motion, of being propelled into the full… Read more

Sand, rock, sea and sky Early April on the isle of Mull. The first time I’ve seen Mull so early in the year. The cuckoo is yet to arrive. The… Read more

Vernal With the vernal equinox last week, spring has well and truly arrived. Although the temperatures here in The Hague are still chilly, my garden has burst into life with… Read more

New growth The 1st of February, St Brigid’s Day, Imbolc, marks the beginning of spring in the natural calendar, and on that day, it did feel as if there was… Read more