Today I had the pleasure of meeting a lovely gentleman for a one-to-one introduction to Celtic knotwork workshop. With it being a one-to-one class, we were able to cover much more ground than usual, and even got on to how to create a Celtic cross. Lots of beautiful knots were made, as you can see…
Today saw the start of a six week metal embossing course, held in conjunction with Breathing Space at Witton Gilbert. For this week, everyone worked on creating a metal embossed coaster, using designs that I took along. We started off using a practice piece of metal first, to get used to the tools and materials….
Last weekend I had a wonderful time demonstrating wood block carving and printing as part of the Georgian Gathering event at Beamish Museum. Here’s a very quick video showing an overview of the weekend. I was demonstrating in the Pockerley Old Hall area of the museum, in a marquee just next to the hall. I…
This coming Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th July, I will be demonstrating wood block carving at the Georgian Gathering at Beamish Museum. I will be in the Pockerley Old Hall area, cutting some wood blocks based on wood block designs created in the Georgian period by Thomas Bewick. The wood carving in the photo…
Today saw the last session of my three week journal making course, and what a lovely course it was! In week 1 I taught basic lino carving and printing and we printed up the fabric for the spines of the books. In week 2 I taught gelli printing and a fun acrylic paint technique and…
I had a fantastic two mornings yesterday and today with the groups that Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy runs in South Shields. I showed everyone how to make an accordion flag book, which is a fun structural book, that’s great for putting on display. I took plenty of art materials with me, and everyone got creative…
We had so much fun on part two of my three week journal making course. My little studio is now full of beautiful decorative papers that we made using acrylic paints and gelli prints. Here are just a few of the papers we ade. Next week we’ll be making the journals using some of the…
As part of the Prudhoe Art Trail this year, 4 of my Celtic knotwork pieces are being shown in the Community Hub at 61 Front Street, Prudhoe, and 1 Celtic knotwork piece is being shown in the library. The art trail is taking place from 8th to 22nd July. All of the pieces in the…
This afternoon saw the start of my three week multi media journal making course. Step one was to learn how to carve lino in order to create some hand printed fabric to create the spine of the book. We went through the basics of lino carving, how to use the tools and materials, practiced some…
A huge thank you to everyone who has left a review on one of my workshops on CraftCourses.com, I received the Gold Students’ Choice Award from them yesterday! I am absolutely over the moon and really appreciate everyone who has taken the time to leave a review. I absolutely love passing on my joy for…
I had a wonderful afternoon with three lovely ladies on my ‘Mindful Messy Mandalas’ workshop. The whole aim of the workshop was to play with paints and drawing mandala motifs and to relax and enjoy playing and experimenting with the materials. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the process and created beautiful mandalas, as you can see. We…
A photo round up of what my hands made during May! From left to right: lots of gelli plate printed papers, of which the one shown here was my favourite; a handbag stitched using bargello embroidery, I’ll be bringing this out and about to networking events with me; a metal embossed piece of one of…
