I had a lovely afternoon on Sunday with two students showing them how to do metal embossing and how to create these dog lead holders. It was a private workshop to celebrate a birthday, and it was the second time they had come along for a private workshop, the first time being to create lino printed tote bags.
They really took to the craft, as you can see, and created these beautiful pieces to hang their dog’s leads from.
Fabulous work, both of you!
I had a lovely couple book a bespoke workshop with me today to celebrate their copper wedding anniversary. We work in copper to create these metal embossed plaques, so it was perfect for them! Obviously they did not need two house numbers, so one created the house number and the other created a plaque featuring…
I had a great afternoon with two lovely ladies who came on my copper embossed house number workshop today. Neither had done metal embossing before, but just look at these beautiful house numbers that they made! Aren’t they wonderful? We went through the process from the beginning, going through all the tools and materials and…
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…
It was the last of my summer workshops at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this afternoon and here are just a handful of the beautiful chine collé lino prints that were made on the workshop today. Aren’t they all gorgeous? I always love teaching at Breathing Space and today was another fabulous day. It was…
I had a really lovely afternoon at Penruddock Village Hall on Saturday, leading a lino printed Christmas card workshop as part of Highlights Rural. The Christmas tunes were playing and everyone was humming and singing along as they carved and then printed their cards. There was such a great atmosphere, and everyone experimented with the process,…
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….
