Over the weekend I’ve been working on some new 12 pointed Celtic mandala drawings, which will be used in a future metal embossed clock workshop. Above you can see the sketches I made, which I then outlined in fineliner so I could scan them in ready to use for the workshop. The mandalas are great…
A huge thank you to everyone who has come along to one of my classes this year. It’s been an amazing year and I’ve loved every minute of it and meeting so many wonderful people. If you would like to see what people have been creating on my workshops this year, then I have plenty…
Yesterday saw the last of my Christmas workshops as part of Highlights Rural Touring at the beautiful Blanchland Abbey. Lots more Christmas trees will be looking festive adorned with their new hand made metal embossed ornaments this year. Beautiful work, everyone! Thanks so much to Susan at Blanchland Abbey for looking after us all so…
Lots more wonderful Christmas tree ornaments made on today’s workshop at Newbrough Town Hall as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a lovely group and a very enjoyable morning with everyone. Have a scroll through the ornaments and you’ll see how well everyone took to the methods and created beautiful pieces. Fabulous work, everyone!…
Some more beautiful metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments all made at Shilbottle Community Centre today, as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was great to see two familiar faces from a previous workshop and wonderful to meet four new people. As you can see, everyone really took to the techniques and created beautiful ornaments. Thanks…
More fabulous metal embossed baubles! These were all made yesterday afternoon at the wonderful Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. We had lots of repeat students from last year’s embossing workshop and last week’s lino printing workshop, as well as some new faces too. Brilliant work, everyone!
More beautiful metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments đ These were all made at Allendale Village Hall on Sunday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a really lovely group, and as you can see they all took so well to the craft and made beautiful ornaments. Brilliant work, everyone! Thanks to Janet at Allendale Village…
I had a really lovely afternoon at Penruddock Village Hall on Saturday, leading a lino printed Christmas card workshop as part of Highlights Rural. The Christmas tunes were playing and everyone was humming and singing along as they carved and then printed their cards. There was such a great atmosphere, and everyone experimented with the process,…
These illuminated metal embossed monograms were made over two evenings at South Pelaw Community Hub. I took everyone through creating their own design and getting started on the embossing on the first evening, and then everyone finished their pieces on the second, and added colour if required. We had some lovely designs created, some for…
Here’s a very quick recap video of all the sketches that I created for Inktober this year. Each sketch is just 6cm square, and was drawn in 15 minutes or under. Each sketch was drawn from life and is a glimpse of my day – either home life, workshop preparation or venues, and places I…
It’s always a pleasure to teach at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, and yesterday’s class was no exception. Above are a selection of the beautiful lino printed Christmas cards made on the workshop. It was another lovely group, all happy to experiment and play with the medium. Beautiful work, everyone, thanks for coming along!
It was great to be back at Woodland Village Hall on Friday afternoon to teach a metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Five of the participants had been on my metal embossed coasters workshop earlier in the year, so it was lovely to see them again. Fabulous ornaments and a…
