Two beautiful hearts made on yesterday’s workshop in the studio. I had a lovely afternoon with my two students, and they both really took to the concept and ran with it! They both designed their own hearts and added extra details as they were working with the metal. Fantastic work, both of you, I love what you both created.
These hand bound books were created over two workshop sessions. The first session was spent creating abstract acrylic paintings, using a wonderful and slightly addictive technique that plays to the properties of acrylic paint, and involved creating many layers. In the bottom row, middle photo, you’ll see some of the papers I have created with…
Shown above are 13 fabulous double sided Christmas ornaments that were made on the first of my Christmas workshops for Highlights Rural Touring! These were all made by a lovely group at Gleaston Village Hall in south Cumbria yesterday, and as you can see, everyone took so well to the process and made the ornaments…
Yesterday I had a great afternoon as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme when I visited Crosby Ravensworth Village Hall and taught an enthusiastic group how to create metal embossed coasters. Everyone took to learning the techniques really well, and they all made beautiful coasters, with a bit of experimentation going on too, which I always love to see!…
What a great three weeks I’ve had lino printing with the community art group at The Lodge at Blackhill and Consett park! We have been working with one of my rose sketches, and from this, created reduction lino prints, gradient prints, two colour lino prints using using one block and masking, as well as plain…
I had a fantastic day at Ellingham Village Hall yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring showing an enthusiastic group how to create lino printed Christmas cards using collage. As you can see from the photos, everyone really took to the method and created some beautiful cards. Thank you so much to Eileen at Ellingham Village Hall for looking…
I had a wonderful afternoon with three lovely ladies on my ‘Mindful Messy Mandalas’ workshop. The whole aim of the workshop was to play with paints and drawing mandala motifs and to relax and enjoy playing and experimenting with the materials. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the process and created beautiful mandalas, as you can see. We…
