I had a one-to-one session with a lovely lady today who had been on a previous metal embossing workshop of mine. This time we were making a key hanger. She has seen my ivy themed Celtic knotwork before and had an idea of wrapping this style of knotwork around a heart. We worked on her…
I’ve had a lovely afternoon teaching a private party how to create my metal embossed Christmas tree baubles. One lady has been on one of my metal embossing workshops before, but the rest were all complete beginners, and as you can see, they all did brilliantly! Thanks so much to the host for welcoming me…
I had such a great morning at Newcastle Carers showing a lovely group how to create lino printed Christmas cards. I took in a selection of designs to work from, and once I’d shown everyone the basics, everyone added their own little touches to the designs and made them their own. Everyone was able to…
I had another great afternoon with the lovely folks at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert. This week I showed everyone how to make my metal embossed Christmas tree ornament. As you can see from the pictures, lots of beautiful ornaments were made, with some people putting their own take on the designs, which I love…
I had a great afternoon with two lovely ladies showing them how to make these bargello embroidered Christmas tree ornaments. They also received the materials to make another ornament at home. At the beginning of the class we started a little bargello Christmas tree motif, just to get used to creating the stitches, which they…
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,…
During October and November I was thrilled to work with Artichoke Trust as one of their community artists delivering community workshops to create the Flowers and Chandeliers pieces for Durham Lumiere this year. I had a fantastic time meeting people around County Durham and helping them to create the components for these pieces out of…
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…
These are just a small selection of the amazing chine collé lino printed Christmas cards that were made on my workshop today. Lots of creativity going on as my students carved out their lino printed designs and then combined them with collage to make lots of unique greetings cards. It was such a fun afternoon…
I had a great one-to-one session in my workshop today, teaching the art of metal embossing, whilst make decorative coasters. We started off by going over the tools and materials and working on a piece of scrap aluminium to get a feel for how the metal and tools worked. Then we moved on to making…
Here are the three fabulous copper house numbers that were made on my metal embossed house number workshop today. I had a great afternoon teaching three lovely people how to emboss metal, and they all created amazing pieces. They were all complete beginners to metal embossing before the workshop. As you can see they all…
I’ve had a really enjoyable two Mondays with the members of the Lanchester Monday Art Group, showing them how to create a reduction lino print. Everyone was so enthusiastic, and really took to lino carving and printing. Some members followed along with my sycamore leaf project, and others worked on their own designs. As you…
