This year there are an amazing ten workshops to choose from! I have workshops on Christmas card making, Christmas tree decoration making and Christmas gift making – for those people who are hard to buy for! You’ll find details of all of the different workshops over on my Christmas workshops page, and you can book…
I’ve had a really enjoyable two Mondays with the members of the Lanchester Monday Art Group, showing them how to create a reduction lino print. Everyone was so enthusiastic, and really took to lino carving and printing. Some members followed along with my sycamore leaf project, and others worked on their own designs. As you…
I had a great afternoon yesterday with two lovely ladies on my Mindful Messy Mandala workshop. We were supposed to be a group of four, but unfortunately one lady had to cancel at the last minute. I hope you’re feeling better soon. The whole aim of the workshop is to play with colour and pattern…
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…
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….
I had the pleasure of meeting three lovely ladies today who booked a Make a Junk Journal workshop on demand as a group. They all had a specific project in mind for future junk journal making, and it was great to chat with them and hear all about their plans. They each made a beautiful…
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…
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….
Today saw the last session of my three week journal making course, and what a lovely course it was! In week 1 I taught basic lino carving and printing and we printed up the fabric for the spines of the books. In week 2 I taught gelli printing and a fun acrylic paint technique and…
