From now until 25th April 2026, my community group, Open Art Group Consett, have their collaborative quilt on display at the Willows Café at Willow Burn Hospice in Lanchester. Working with The Story, Durham, and textile artist Sarah Dodds, the group created a collaborative quilt based on the social history of Consett. Members worked on…
I had a wonderful time with a lovely group at the Land of Oak and Iron Heritage Centre in Winlaton Mill yesterday, showing everyone how to make metal embossed hangers. Everyone took so well to the craft, as you can see from the photos. Every piece was beautifully crafted, and it was great to see…
What a lovely group in the studio on Saturday for my ‘Exploring Triquetras’ workshop! Two students had learned Celtic knotwork with me before and the other two students were new to the art form, but completely embraced it. I showed everyone how to create triquetras with a pair of compasses and then freehand, with some…
Some of the lovely chine collé lino prints made on today’s private class in my studio. The great thing about private studio workshops is that we can play and experiment, and as well as chine collé, I was also asked to demonstrate gelli plate printing and metal embossing! One of the ladies also brought some…
I had a wonderful time with Gateshead Art Diamonds last Thursday and yesterday, showing a lovely group how to design and emboss their own monograms. Last week I took them through creating their designs and yesterday I showed them how to metal emboss and complete their pieces. They all created such beautiful pieces, have a…
It was great to be back at Breathing Space in Witton Gilbert this week, this time running a ‘Found Poetry’ workshop. Found poetry is the art of taking a piece of text, and searching for a poem or sentiment within. Once this has been found, we then illustrate the poem, using drawing, paints, collage, rubber…
Two beautiful hearts made on yesterday’s workshop in the studio. I had a lovely afternoon with my two students, and they both really took to the concept and ran with it! They both designed their own hearts and added extra details as they were working with the metal. Fantastic work, both of you, I love…
A fabulous array of hand painted ceramic baubles, made at Breathing Space yesterday. It was a couple of hours of painting and drawing and getting messy! Everyone made fantastic baubles during a couple of hours of creativity. Thanks to everyone who came along, they will look fantastic on your Christmas trees!
More fabulous metal embossed Christmas tree ornaments made in the studio this afternoon. A great afternoon spent with lovely people. There are going to be some well dressed Christmas trees around north east England this year!
I had a family group come to the studio for a private Christmas tree ornament metal embossing workshop on Thursday. It was a lovely afternoon spent with them all, and they created such fabulous ornaments. Excellent work, all of you!
Thanks to everyone who came along to my metal embossed Christmas ornament workshop at the Land of Oak and Iron on Sunday. As you can see from the photos, everyone took really well to the craft and made beautiful ornaments. There will be a lot of well dressed Christmas trees in the north east of…
Four decorative coasters / tiles made on today’s private metal embossing workshop in my studio. It was a great workshop with a mum and daughter. We went through a few basic techniques first of all, working on a practice piece, and then moved on to creating the coasters, learning a few more techniques along the…
