Yesterday saw day 2 of my September taster sessions, and four lovely people came along to my studio to make metal embossed keyrings (and a set of pendants!).
Everyone had done metal embossing with me before, but not the low relief embossing style that we did today. Everyone made two double sided keyrings and all made beautiful pieces, with lots of intricate work going on. Fabulous work, all!
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…
I had a family group come to the studio for a private Christmas tree ornament metal embossing workshop on Thursday. It was a lovely afternoon spent with them all, and they created such fabulous ornaments. Excellent work, all of you!
I had a one-to-one session with a lovely lady today who had been on a previous metal embossing workshop of mine. This time we were making a key hanger. She has seen my ivy themed Celtic knotwork before and had an idea of wrapping this style of knotwork around a heart. We worked on her…
My weekly community art group, Consett Open Art Studio, are taking part in the Prudhoe Art Trail again this year, and shown above is their fabulous display. The Prudhoe Art Trail showcases local artists who are displaying their artwork in businesses and community spaces along Front Street in Prudhoe. My community art group has a…
Today was week 3 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. This week I gave everyone my sketch of a tree, and we worked on carving out our backgrounds and paying attention to the direction in which the backgrounds were carved out. As you can see…
We had so much fun on part two of my three week journal making course. My little studio is now full of beautiful decorative papers that we made using acrylic paints and gelli prints. Here are just a few of the papers we ade. Next week we’ll be making the journals using some of the…
