Student Showcase: chine collé lino printed Christmas cards
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Student Showcase: chine collé lino printed Christmas cards

I’ve had a fantastic day teaching chine collé lino printing to a lovely group at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it’s such an amazing place filled with the best people! These are just a small selection of the Christmas cards that were produced today. As you can see,…

Studio blog: Durham Lumiere 2023
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Studio blog: Durham Lumiere 2023

During October and November I was thrilled to work with Artichoke Trust as one of their community artists delivering community workshops to create the Flowers and Chandeliers pieces for Durham Lumiere this year. I had a fantastic time meeting people around County Durham and helping them to create the components for these pieces out of…

Student Showcase: Metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments
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Student Showcase: Metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments

I had a great afternoon teaching metal embossing to a lovely group, where they all made their own metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments. Everyone was a beginner to metal embossing and you can see what fabulous work they all did. Hopefully the ornaments will all take pride of place on their Christmas trees! Well done…

Student Showcase: Chine collé lino printed Christmas cards
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Student Showcase: Chine collé lino printed Christmas cards

These are just a small selection of the amazing chine collé lino printed Christmas cards that were made on my workshop today. Lots of creativity going on as my students carved out their lino printed designs and then combined them with collage to make lots of unique greetings cards. It was such a fun afternoon…

Student Showcase: Metal embossed house number workshop
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Student Showcase: Metal embossed house number workshop

Here are the three fabulous copper house numbers that were made on my metal embossed house number workshop today. I had a great afternoon teaching three lovely people how to emboss metal, and they all created amazing pieces. They were all complete beginners to metal embossing before the workshop. As you can see they all…

Video tutorial: sycamore leaf reduction lino print
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Video tutorial: sycamore leaf reduction lino print

Last month I wrote about completing this three colour reduction lino print of a sycamore leaf, and mentioned that I had videoed the whole process (see the blog here). I’ve now had chance to edit the video, and the full tutorial is now posted below. This tutorial is suitable for those who have been carving…

Student Showcase: reduction lino printing with Lanchester Monday Art Group
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Student Showcase: reduction lino printing with Lanchester Monday Art Group

I’ve had a really enjoyable two Mondays with the members of the Lanchester Monday Art Group, showing them how to create a reduction lino print. Everyone was so enthusiastic, and really took to lino carving and printing. Some members followed along with my sycamore leaf project, and others worked on their own designs. As you…