Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Soulby
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Student showcase: metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Soulby

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…

Student showcase: Christmas chine colle lino printing at Gleaston Village Hall
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Student showcase: Christmas chine colle lino printing at Gleaston Village Hall

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…

Student showcase: paint and stitch
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Student showcase: paint and stitch

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…

Student showcase: chine colle lino printed Christmas cards at Ellingham Village Hall
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Student showcase: chine colle lino printed Christmas cards at Ellingham Village Hall

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…

Student showcase: Metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Gleaston Village Hall
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Student showcase: Metal embossed Christmas ornaments at Gleaston Village Hall

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…

Student showcase: messy mandalas with Creative Calligraphy
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Student showcase: messy mandalas with Creative Calligraphy

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…

Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbook
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Student showcase: metal embossed Japanese stab bound sketchbook

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…

Student showcase: Chine collé floral lino printing with Breathing Space
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Student showcase: Chine collé floral lino printing with Breathing Space

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…

Autumn / Winter tour with Highlights Rural Touring Scheme

Autumn / Winter tour with Highlights Rural Touring Scheme

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…