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!
Thanks so much to Katie at Newbrough Town Hall for looking after us all.
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,…
With the Lindisfarne Gospels coming to the Laing Art Gallery this autumn, interest has been growing in the art of creating Celtic knots. One of my two main art focuses is drawing Celtic knotwork, and I teach this skill to others too. In the class I’ll teach you how to draw a basic Celtic knot….
This afternoon saw the start of my three week multi media journal making course. Step one was to learn how to carve lino in order to create some hand printed fabric to create the spine of the book. We went through the basics of lino carving, how to use the tools and materials, practiced some…
Over the summer in my community craft group at The Lodge in Blackhill and Consett Park, we have been making raffia baskets. Here are a few of the baskets, both in progress and finished. I love how they have all turned out – amazing work, everyone! The trickiest part of raffia basket weaving is getting…
We had so much fun on part two of my three week journal making course. My little studio is now full of beautiful decorative papers that we made using acrylic paints and gelli prints. Here are just a few of the papers we ade. Next week we’ll be making the journals using some of the…
Yesterday I taught a workshop on how to create these metal embossed heart ornaments, and had a lovely afternoon with the mum and son who came along. The hearts are inspired by the Mexican tradition of making ‘milagritos’ and ‘corazones mexicanos’, which you can read a bit more about here. I took them through creating…
