This year I aim to bring out a monthly video blog to round up what I’ve been up to in the studio. I do need to remember to document my work in video form though, rather than photographs, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it in the end!
For now, here’s my ten minute round up of a few things that I got up to in January. Hope you like it!
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…
I’m always happy when I can combine my different artistic loves, so this metal embossed hanger commission with a Celtic knotwork design was a perfect project! The photos above take you through the process of making the hanger. I drafted out my design on to tracing paper first. The tracing paper helped me to get…
A few months ago I bought this fabulous ‘Waves’ bargello kit by the Bargello Sisters and Appletons Wool. I bought the kit from Bargello-A-GoGo who I can thoroughly recommend (no affiliation, just very pleased with the excellent service!). I absolutely love the colour combination and really enjoyed the relaxing process of slowing down and stitching…
A photo round up of what my hands made during May! From left to right: lots of gelli plate printed papers, of which the one shown here was my favourite; a handbag stitched using bargello embroidery, I’ll be bringing this out and about to networking events with me; a metal embossed piece of one of…
In this month’s studio vlog I take you through some lino printing, Celtic knotwork drawing and show you my first ever drypoint print. If you would like to support me and buy one of the 15 limited edition lino prints of my ‘Moon Dreams’ lino print, shown in the video, then you can buy it…
I’ve just put the finishing touches to this copper embossed clock and I’m really pleased with how it turned out. The Celtic design is an old one of mine that was part of my symbol mandala series, which is in my first book. It originally had a sun design in the centre, but I took…
