I had a great afternoon teaching metal embossing to a lovely group, where they all made their own metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments.
Everyone was a beginner to metal embossing and you can see what fabulous work they all did.
Hopefully the ornaments will all take pride of place on their Christmas trees! Well done everyone, fantastic work!
This spring I am really excited to be working with Highlights Rural Touring Scheme to deliver workshops around Cumbria, Northumberland and County Durham. (I will also be holding workshops in my own studio as usual, which will be announced soon.) Working with Highlights Rural Touring Scheme is very close to my heart, as they bring events such…
This week I taught a metal embossing class for beginners. I showed everyone the basic techniques for creating a small metal embossed plaque, and everyone chose a design to work with and embellished it with their own little details. There was one more plaque created, but somehow I seem to have missed that one! Metal…
I had a fantastic two mornings yesterday and today with the groups that Angela Reed of Creative Calligraphy runs in South Shields. I showed everyone how to make an accordion flag book, which is a fun structural book, that’s great for putting on display. I took plenty of art materials with me, and everyone got creative…
We had a lot of fun in our community art and craft group this week, tearing and cutting and sticking paper in order to create these vase of flowers greetings cards. I love how everyone took my initial idea and then interpreted it in their own way to create their cards. A fun and relaxing…
I had a wonderful morning teaching a Celtic Knotwork for Beginners course with a very lovely lady. As well as learning all about the basics of creating Celtic knots, we also had lots of interesting chats. This even ended up in me having homework to do, being given lots of interesting info about topology! Lots…
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….
