I'm a smallholder and wordsmith living on the edge of Europe in the West of Ireland. I have always been creative on some front, be it craftwork, woodwork, pottery or textiles and in recent years have begun to create digital artwork and designs, mostly from photographs taken with my preloved Canon EOS 60D DSLR. Being tied down by the farm - bar the odd holiday in Portugal (I'm a western seaboard girl...) - most of my work draws on my immediate (and rustic) surroundings, from plants to farm animals, landscapes and skies, textures and surfaces of buildings or implements. I often combine these into digital abstracts with a fairly strong bent towards nature's colors and distressed textures. Lately I have been playing with my photographs in...