Student Showcase: Found Poetry Play Session
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Today was week 3 of a six week lino printing course for beginners for a community wellbeing project in Durham. This week I gave everyone my sketch of a tree, and we worked on carving out our backgrounds and paying attention to the direction in which the backgrounds were carved out. As you can see…
Lots more wonderful Christmas tree ornaments made on today’s workshop at Newbrough Town Hall as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was a lovely group and a very enjoyable morning with everyone. Have a scroll through the ornaments and you’ll see how well everyone took to the methods and created beautiful pieces. Fabulous work, everyone!…
I’m showing off the work of another one of my ‘students’ today! There’s a bit of a story behind this one! I have been having a weekly Spanish / English language exchange chat with a lovely madrileño, Carlos, for the past 18 months. We’ve got to know each other well over that time, and he…
After a break for most of January, the first of this year’s workshops took place in my studio yesterday. A fabulous group made their own sketchbooks, which involved creating their designs, metal embossing the covers, covering the book board and binding the watercolour paper and covers together. It was a lovely, enthusiastic group and there…
Some more beautiful metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments all made at Shilbottle Community Centre today, as part of Highlights Rural Touring. It was great to see two familiar faces from a previous workshop and wonderful to meet four new people. As you can see, everyone really took to the techniques and created beautiful ornaments. Thanks…
Tearing and cutting and gluing pieces of paper is so therapeutic, and my students certainly found this to be so in yesterday’s Collaged Landscapes workshops. I just love the variety of styles and themes that everyone chose, and the wonderful way in which they executed their ideas. Wonderful work, everyone! If you would like to…