Recently I’ve really been enjoying making these metal embossed sketchbooks. Those with my Celtic designs on I made as sample pieces for my workshop with Birtley craft group, you can see all their amazing sketchbooks here. I recently spent a fantastic long weekend away with a group of amazing ladies, for each of whom I…
I had a great afternoon yesterday with three lovely ladies who came to my studio to learn how to make a junk journal. A junk journal is a hand made book, made entirely from recycled items. Everyone brought along papers, cardboard and fabric that they had at home and that otherwise had no use, and…
I was back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert today for the second of my summer workshops with them. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it’s such a wonderful venue. There were quite a few familiar faces today, who had been on previous workshops with me, both here and further afield, as well as…
During June and July I had a great time with Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy and her two groups that meet regularly on Thursdays and Fridays, teaching her groups how to create chine collé lino prints. This is part of Angela’s larger Calligraphy and Creative Wellbeing project, that you can read all about on her blog. In the…
I had a fantastic day at Soulby Village Hall yesterday, teaching a lovely group chine collé lino printing, for my second trip to this lovely village as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. Everyone took to the method so well, and the time just flew by. A couple even had a go at printing up with…
I had a fabulous day with a craft group up in Birtley, Northumberland, yesterday, showing everyone how to make a Japanese stab bound sketchbook with a metal embossed cover. In the morning I showed everyone how to make the cover, taking everyone through the tools and materials first, creating a sample piece, and then moving…
On Tuesday I had a lovely afternoon at the wonderful Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert, teaching mandala drawing. I call this workshop ‘mindful messy mandalas’, as it’s all about enjoying the creative process, rather than creating precise mandalas. We started off by creating a loose background using acrylic paints, and then we let the colours…
Over the past two weeks I’ve had a great time with Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy and her two groups that meet regularly on Thursdays and Fridays. This is part of Angela’s larger Calligraphy and Creative Wellbeing project, that you can read all about on her blog. In the first week I took everyone through…
I finished this Celtic knotwork drawing this afternoon, so this really is hot off the press! It’s a 5 inch x 7inch piece and has been created for this year’s Postcard Art Exhibit, which will take place in McKinney, Texas, later this year. It will be available to buy as part of the exhibition, and…
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…
Over the past couple of years I’ve been really lucky to work with Breathing Space in a fabulous health and wellbeing community project in Witton Gilbert. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it is such a beautiful and relaxed venue and everyone is always so enthusiastic and friendly. Coming up over the summer I…
On Saturday I had a fantastic day at Allendale Village Hall, teaching a lovely group chine collé lino printing, as part of Highlights Rural Touring Scheme. We had a lovely selection of floral lino prints created, and everyone took really well to carving out the lino and then to printing with collage. As usual, the time…
