Student Showcase: Metal embossed coasters
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Student Showcase: Metal embossed coasters

I had a fun morning today with a local community art group, creating metal embossed coasters using aluminium. Everyone was a complete beginner to metal embossing, but you can see what amazing results they all had! I took in a few different designs that everyone could work from, and some people added little extras to…

Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, weeks 2 to 4
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Student Showcase: six week metal embossing course, weeks 2 to 4

My six week metal embossing course being held in conjunction with Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert is going really well. Everyone has been working on larger projects during these few weeks, and two of them were finished today. On the left is a wonderfully intricate bookmark, and on the right a very elegant house number….

Student Showcase: Introduction to Celtic knotwork workshop
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Student Showcase: Introduction to Celtic knotwork workshop

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…

Student Showcase: Six week metal embossing course: week 1
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Student Showcase: Six week metal embossing course: week 1

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….

Student Showcase: Accordion Flag Book Workshops
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Student Showcase: Accordion Flag Book Workshops

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…

Student Showcase: Multi Media Journal Making Course – week 2
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Student Showcase: Multi Media Journal Making Course – week 2

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…