My Newsletter

Every now and then I send out a newsletter via Mailchimp to all those who might be interested in my work, courses and exhibitions. If you don't get it but would like to then contact me through the comments box or through my web site and I will add you to the mailing list and send you the latest issue.

The Textile Hub

Our new brochure has just been printed so you will start to see it around the place. In the mean time check out our web site www.thetextilehub.co.uk for a list of all the courses. This term we are joined by Jayne Turner, Some of you will know her as we organise the vintage fairs together.

Textile histories

Some of us hold on to things for a long time because of their sentimental value. This windbreak had been in my family for 70 years or so and has its own story to tell. My father's side of the family come from North Norfolk and during WW2 this parachute was shot down over my family's farmland in Norfolk. You were supposed to report incidents like this but most families just scooped them up to turn them into other things. My grandmother made windbreaks for everyone in the family and because we are the sort of people who never throw anything away it is still in my Dad's garage!

Italy

I have just come home from a holiday in lovely, hot, culturally rich Italy. I took many many photographs but here a re a few with a bit of a textile theme going on.

Fabric Flowers

I have been making these to sell in my studio at an Open Studios event we are having at The Hearth on the weekend of August  25th and 26th. It is a floral based weekend with a Flower Festival in Horsley Village Church and guest artists in the Hall all with work to do with flowers, including Louise Bradley whose work I have bought myself over the years.

More blooms

The rainy weather has kept me indoors and away from gardening so I have been spending a lot of time drawing and preparing teaching examples for the summer school I will be teaching in a few weeks time in association with Horsley Printmakers.

The Bloom and Grow summer school takes place Thursday to Sunday | August 9, 10, 11, 12th.

 

Gardens, allotments, foliage and flowers are the inspiration for this four day mixed media course which celebrates the British love affair with their gardens. We will start with simple line drawings of flowers and vegetables in pencil and pen and ink, moving on to colour using inks, pastels, resists and a variety of mark making. You will learn to abstract the essence of the natural forms turning them into mixed media compositions which include collage. We will have a printmaking day using rollers, stencils and brushes to apply colour to metal plates to make richly coloured monotypes which can also be collaged and drawn into. If you are a textile artist you may also like to print your monotypes on to fabric for embellishment at a later stage. If the weather is clement we hope to visit a very pretty local allotment where you can take photographs and draw if you choose to.

If you are interested in booking on the course please book through the Horsley Printmakers website.

Kindle Case

I love new technology but don't always like how it looks. Here is the little light weight bag I have made for my kindle. They will be available to buy from my studio soon.