Winter light in the studio

The studio faces the wrong way for winter. By three in the afternoon the good light has gone and everything I make after that looks different in the morning.

I used to work around this with lamps. Now I mostly work with it: colour in the mornings, fibre in the afternoons, writing in the dark. The materials that need to be seen properly get the hours where seeing is possible.

What the season is good for

• Weaving, which is more about touch than sight.
• Repairing things that have been sitting in the corner since summer.
• Reading, which I always intend to do more of and rarely manage until it gets cold.

There is a version of this that turns into advice about honouring your natural rhythms. I would rather just say: the light is bad for a couple of months, so do the things that do not need it.