I had a family group come to the studio for a private Christmas tree ornament metal embossing workshop on Thursday. It was a lovely afternoon spent with them all, and they created such fabulous ornaments. Excellent work, all of you!
This afternoon saw week 3 of a six week lino printing course that I’m teaching for a wellbeing centre in Witton Gilbert. This week we moved on to creating a large design, and also using a couple of extra U-blades. I also showed everyone how to print up a two colour piece using just one…
Two lovely greetings cards made by the students on my Celtic knot flow workshop yesterday. I taught a more flowing and less technical technique of creating interlaced knotwork, which included chains, triquetras and unicursal curves. I also taught a traditional space filling technique used in medieval manuscripts in order to create the backgrounds. Both are…
I’ve had a fantastic day teaching chine collé lino printing to a lovely group at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. I always love teaching at Breathing Space, it’s such an amazing place filled with the best people! These are just a small selection of the Christmas cards that were produced today. As you can see,…
These illuminated metal embossed monograms were made over two evenings at South Pelaw Community Hub. I took everyone through creating their own design and getting started on the embossing on the first evening, and then everyone finished their pieces on the second, and added colour if required. We had some lovely designs created, some for…
When you need a new house number and you can emboss metal… well, you have to make a metal embossed house number! I made our new house number out of copper. As we are both Celtic artists, I chose one of my Celtic knotwork designs for the border to represent ourselves. You can see from…
It was sad to finish this six week lino printing course this afternoon, as I’ve really enjoyed teaching all the participants at a wellbeing centre in Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. Today we had fun lino printing on fabric, which uses different printing inks and also I like to use a different method of inking…
