More fabulous metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments made in the studio this afternoon. A great afternoon spent with lovely people. There are going to be some well dressed Christmas trees around north east England this year!
Once again I’m over the moon to be working with Highlights Rural Touring for their autumn / winter season. I will be teaching two different workshops for Highlights Rural Touring – a metal embossed Christmas ornament and chine collé lino printed Christmas cards. I will be at: Gleaston, Cumbria, 5th October – metal embossed Christmas ornament…
With the Lindisfarne Gospels coming to the Laing Art Gallery this autumn, interest has been growing in the art of creating Celtic knots. One of my two main art focuses is drawing Celtic knotwork, and I teach this skill to others too. In the class I’ll teach you how to draw a basic Celtic knot….
Four fabulous metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks were made on my workshop in the studio yesterday. We started off creating a practice piece of metal embossing to get used to the tools and materials and how best to use them. Three students designed their own motifs and one decided to go with one of…
Thanks to everyone at Armathwaite Old School Hall for such a lovely morning teaching how to make metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments. There will be lots of special pieces adorning local Christmas trees this year! Above are photos of both sides of everyone’s ornaments and they all made beautiful pieces as you can see. Thanks…
Back in November last year I finished my first metal embossed clock prototype, created in copper, which you can read about in this blog post. The clock shown here has been created in aluminium and has a few improvements on the first one. The photos above show the process from my initial drawing of the…
Last Saturday I held a I held a metal embossed hearts workshop as part of this year’s Prudhoe Art Trail. These were the fabulous pieces created on the workshop. It was a lovely afternoon in the Community Hub, thank you so much to everyone who came along and supported the event!
