I’m expanding my knowledge of ink and watercolour at the moment, and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. As well as going on a workshop in Durham with Toby Haseler last August, I’m also taking his online classes. Earlier this month I saw that Koosje Koene was running an online workshop, so I decided to attend. It…
Thank you so much for your support this year, as a self-employed artist, I really appreciate it. An especially big 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. I’d also…
More fabulous metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments made in the studio this afternoon. A great afternoon spent with lovely people. There are going to be some well dressed Christmas trees around north east England this year!
I had a family group come to the studio for a private Christmas tree ornament metal embossing workshop on Thursday. It was a lovely afternoon spent with them all, and they created such fabulous ornaments. Excellent work, all of you!
Thanks to everyone who came along to my metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop at the Land of Oak and Iron on Sunday. As you can see from the photos, everyone took really well to the craft and made beautiful ornaments. There will be a lot of well dressed Christmas trees in the north east of…
Four decorative coasters / tiles made on today’s private metal embossing workshop in my studio. It was a great workshop with a mum and daughter. We went through a few basic techniques first of all, working on a practice piece, and then moved on to creating the coasters, learning a few more techniques along the…
Two stunning metal embossed clocks were made on a private workshop in my studio today. Both students had been on a private metal embossing workshop before, and made dog lead hangers, so one co-ordinated hers with that and made her clock in aluminium, and the other chose copper. They learned lots of new techniques on…
Come along to the first ever Open Art Studio exhibition at The Lodge in Blackhill and Consett Park on Wednesday 3rd December, from 1pm to 3pm. My community art group, who meet weekly, have been preparing artwork over the last year to exhibit to the public. Work includes: Please come along and support the event…
Shown above are two fabulous house numbers made on yesterday’s copper embossed house number workshop. This was a surprise birthday present for one of the participants, who didn’t know what she was coming along to until they both arrived! They were both complete beginners to metal embossing, and wow, they certainly took to it, as…
This year I took part in the annual Inktober challenge, where participants are encouraged to create a sketch using ink every day during October. There are ‘official’ prompts given out by the organisers if you are stuck for ideas, but, as usual, I decided to go my own way and concentrated on what I would like…
I had a great morning on Friday with two lovely ladies who came along to the studio for a private metal embossed Christmas tree ornament workshop. As you can see, they both took so well to the craft and created two beautiful ornaments, ready for their trees this year. I really like how that although…
The final 10 days of Inktober, and it was a mix of workshop prep, workshop teaching and relaxing at home. I’ll write another blog soon with a full recap and my thoughts on this year’s project. You can read more about this year’s project here.
