I had a great afternoon last Friday with three ladies who came to celebrate a special birthday by learning how to emboss metal. They all took so well to the craft and made these beautiful coasters. Wonderful work, everyone! As it was a special birthday, I asked my other half to make his celebration cake…
From now until 25th April 2026, my community group, Open Art Group Consett, have their collaborative quilt on display at the Willows Café at Willow Burn Hospice in Lanchester. Working with The Story, Durham, and textile artist Sarah Dodds, the group created a collaborative quilt based on the social history of Consett. Members worked on…
I had a wonderful time with a lovely group at the Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre in Winlaton Mill yesterday, showing everyone how to make metal embossed hangers. Everyone took so well to the craft, as you can see from the photos. Every piece was beautifully crafted, and it was great to see…
I was in the mood for creating some new greetings cards to send to friends and family, and so decided on a small series of spring flowers. Inspired by the flowers coming up in my garden, I carved out a snowdrops design and two different daffodil designs from lino. The daffodil designs I created the…
What a lovely group in the studio on Saturday for my ‘Exploring Triquetras’ workshop! Two students had learned Celtic knotwork with me before and the other two students were new to the art form, but completely embraced it. I showed everyone how to create triquetras with a pair of compasses and then freehand, with some…
Some of the lovely chine collé lino prints made on today’s private class in my studio. The great thing about private studio workshops is that we can play and experiment, and as well as chine collé, I was also asked to demonstrate gelli plate printing and metal embossing! One of the ladies also brought some…
I had a wonderful time with Gateshead Art Diamonds last Thursday and yesterday, showing a lovely group how to design and emboss their own monograms. Last week I took them through creating their designs and yesterday I showed them how to metal emboss and complete their pieces. They all created such beautiful pieces, have a…
It was great to be back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this week, this time running a ‘Found Poetry’ workshop. Found poetry is the art of taking a piece of text, and searching for a poem or sentiment within. Once this has been found, we then illustrate the poem, using drawing, paints, collage, rubber…
Last Friday I took some time out for myself and took an online workshop with Colin Woodward on using Derwent Inktense pencils. I use these pencils a lot for precise colour and shading in my Celtic knotwork artwork, but wanted to learn some new techniques with them. We went through two different exercises to warm…
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…
If you’ve been following me for a while, then you’ll know that I always like to take part in the Postcard Art Exhibit each year (formerly known as the Twitter Art Exhibit).. The project was originally set up 16 years ago by artist David Sandum, to raise money to buy children’s books for a library in Norway. Since…
Workshops for February and March are now available to book! I’m waiting for more dates to be confirmed, but for the moment, these are the workshops that are ready to book now. Keep checking back for the others. 7th February – Metal embossed heart workshop – great for Valentine’s Day!12th February – Found poetry workshop28th…
