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Art and Craft Techniques | Demonstration Day

Demonstration Day: Georgian Gathering at Beamish Museum

ByCrafts for Wellbeing 10 July 202320 July 2023

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…

Art and Craft Techniques

Art and Craft Techniques: Spotlight on lino printing

ByCrafts for Wellbeing 5 May 20225 May 2022

My history with lino printing goes back to the early 1990s, when I bought a ‘Make your own rubber stamp’ kit at Make Your Mark in York. Back then I used to make small lino cuts to decorate my envelopes with (I was a huge letter writer and mail artist back then), but I soon…