Student showcase: Lino printed chine colle Christmas cards at Great Whittington

Two lovely greetings cards made by the students on my Celtic knot flow workshop yesterday. I taught a more flowing and less technical technique of creating interlaced knotwork, which included chains, triquetras and unicursal curves. I also taught a traditional space filling technique used in medieval manuscripts in order to create the backgrounds. Both are…

Proud teacher alert 😁 It was the last lesson of my six week Celtic knotwork course at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this afternoon, and what a fantastic class it was! Using some of my original designs as inspiration, everyone plotted out their grids to create the artwork and got stuck in to their final…

I was thrilled to be asked back to Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert in order to run a six week course on Celtic knotwork drawing. We started off this first week learning how to create a plain knot. Once everyone had learned the basics, they were free to play and create knots of their own,…