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…
I had a very enjoyable and inky afternoon with two lovely ladies yesterday, who created lino printed cotton tote bags. We went through all the tools and materials and then carved a sample piece of lino in order to get used to the everything and they then went on to carve two lino blocks each….
Once again I’m over the moon to be working with Highlights Rural Touring for their autumn / winter season. I will be teaching two different workshops for Highlights Rural Touring – a metal embossed Christmas ornament and chine collé lino printed Christmas cards. I will be at: Gleaston, Cumbria, 5th October – metal embossed Christmas ornament…
I had a great afternoon yesterday with three lovely ladies who came to my studio to learn how to make a junk journal. A junk journal is a hand made book, made entirely from recycled items. Everyone brought along papers, cardboard and fabric that they had at home and that otherwise had no use, and…
I was back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert today for the second of my summer workshops with them. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it’s such a wonderful venue. There were quite a few familiar faces today, who had been on previous workshops with me, both here and further afield, as well as…
