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…
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…
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…
I’ve just put the finishing touches to this copper embossed clock and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The Celtic design is an old one of mine that was part of my symbol mandala series, which is in my first book. It originally had a sun design in the centre, but I took…
I had a great one-to-one session in my workshop today, teaching the art of metal embossing, whilst make decorative coasters. We started off by going over the tools and materials and working on a piece of scrap aluminium to get a feel for how the metal and tools worked. Then we moved on to making…
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…
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…
I’m always happy when I can combine my different artistic loves, so this metal embossed hanger commission with a Celtic knotwork design was a perfect project! The photos above take you through the process of making the hanger. I drafted out my design on to tracing paper first. The tracing paper helped me to get…
This year there are an amazing ten workshops to choose from! I have workshops on Christmas card making, Christmas tree decoration making and Christmas gift making – for those people who are hard to buy for! You’ll find details of all of the different workshops over on my Christmas workshops page, and you can book…
Here’s another three colour reduction lino print, which I completed this afternoon. Reduction lino printing is a way of creating a multicolour lino print, by carving and printing each layer of colour out of the same block of lino. There are only 8 of these in the edition, so these will be going out to…
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…
What’s a reduction lino print? It’s an exciting method of creating a multi-colour lino print. Each colour layer of a reduction lino print is carved and printed from the same lino block, resulting in the lino block being destroyed during the carving process. Starting with the lightest colour, areas are cut away from the carving…
