I had another great morning at Arnside Educational Institute showing people how to make these metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Everyone took to the craft really well and some even designed their own ornaments, which I am always over the moon about! Have a scroll through the photos above and…
I had a lovely afternoon teaching how to make these metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments at Whittingham Memorial Institute yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. Everyone really took to the craft and some even designed their own ornaments, which I love! As you can see, everyone will have a lovely new decoration to hang on…
I had a really lovely morning at Great Whittington Village Hall on Sunday, teaching a small but very enthusiastic group the method of chine colle lino printing, which is lino printing with collage. This was as part of Highlights Rural Touring. As you can see from the photos, they all created fabulous Christmas cards and…
A Christmas tree full of amazing metal embossed ornaments were made on my workshop at Soulby Village Hall on Saturday as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was such a lovely morning with an enthusiastic group! Everyone was a complete beginner to metal embossing and just look at the fabulous ornaments they made. Many decided to…
After a great session creating metal embossed Christmas tree decorations at Gleaston Village Hall a couple of weeks ago (see that blog post here), I was asked back to show everyone how to create lino printed Christmas cards using the chine colle collage method. It was a fabulous afternoon and as you can see, everyone…
Over the last few weeks my community art group have been having fun with paint and stitch. Everyone started off by creating abstract pieces with acrylic paints, stencils and texture paste. Then everyone added stitching and a bit of collage to those backgrounds. These are just a sample of the fantastic pieces everyone created. I…
I had a fantastic day at Ellingham Village Hall yesterday as part of Highlights Rural Touring showing an enthusiastic group how to create lino printed Christmas cards using collage. As you can see from the photos, everyone really took to the method and created some beautiful cards. Thank you so much to Eileen at Ellingham Village Hall for looking…
Shown above are 13 fabulous double sided Christmas ornaments that were made on the first of my Christmas workshops for Highlights Rural Touring! These were all made by a lovely group at Gleaston Village Hall in south Cumbria yesterday, and as you can see, everyone took so well to the process and made the ornaments…
Some ‘in action’ shots of some of the fantastic mandalas that were drawn on my workshops for Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy yesterday and today. I always enjoy delivering workshops for Angela’s groups and it was lovely to be back and see everyone again. I was at South Shields both yesterday and today to deliver this…
Four fabulous metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbooks were made on my workshop in the studio yesterday. We started off creating a practice piece of metal embossing to get used to the tools and materials and how best to use them. Three students designed their own motifs and one decided to go with one of…
Shown above are two beautiful journals made by a couple on a private workshop in my studio yesterday. The workshop was booked as a birthday celebration. We started off the day by going over the basics of lino printing and then they went to carve out their designs for both the cover of the sketchbook…
It was the last of my summer workshops at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this afternoon and here are just a handful of the beautiful chine collé lino prints that were made on the workshop today. Aren’t they all gorgeous? I always love teaching at Breathing Space and today was another fabulous day. It was…
