Your feedback is invaluable!
Your feedback is invaluable! But before I go into all of that let me tell you that next month, I’ll be taking part in my first Designer Maker Market at The Witham in Barnard Castle on November 19/20,...
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New Year Review of 2016
Amazingly we are already half way through January 2017. Before the year runs away with itself I thought it would be worth taking stock of 2016 in a New Year review and sharing it with you. This time...
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Summer Printmaking Retreat
Summer printmaking retreat ‘Inspirational Northumbria’ I’m in planning mode at the moment. I’m looking at what workshops I want to run this summer. Gelli plate printing? Printing for textiles with...
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Inspirational Northumbria
“Inspirational Northumbria” The summer printmaking retreat this August 2017. A CHANCE TO EXPLORE YOUR CREATIVITY The retreat runs from August 7 to August 10. It offers the chance to try something new...
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Just breathe!
Do you get moments when you have to stand still and tell yourself to ‘Just breathe!’? THAT’S what I’m having to tell myself right now after a night where I was still awake at 3.30a.m thinking about...
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His Nibs Joins the Biz
His Nibs Joins the Biz Our business journey together began in April last year. His Nibs (aka my husband, Chris) started working for me two days a week whilst still working part-time for his main...
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Planning and Testing An Eco-printing Workshop for the Autumn
Planning and Testing An Eco-printing Workshop for the Autumn I’ve spent the summer planning and testing an eco-printing workshop for the autumn. I’m now ready to tell you about it. A couple of years...
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Exploring Gelli-plate printing on Fabric with Embroidery
Exploring Gelli-plate printing on Fabric with Embroidery This year I’ve been doing quite a lot of printmaking using gelli-plates. Like many people I came across the idea on Pinterest first but a video...
View ArticleGreat Welcome at The Morpeth Chantry
A BLOGGING FIRST & A GREAT WELCOME AT THE MORPETH CHANTRY ‘Its your turn to blog’, super-blogger Carol informs me over breakfast. Crikey, I have never blogged anything about anything! Probably best...
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I’m Teaching Myself New Tricks – Part 1
I’ve Been Teaching Myself New Tricks I’ve been teaching myself a few new tricks … weeeell, not so much new. Rather, a bringing together of existing skills in monotype and collagraph. These tricks may...
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Print & Press Exhibition – 2 weeks to go.
Print & Press Exhibition As some of you may know, over the last few months, I’ve been organizing an exhibition, Print & Press. The exhibition showcases not just my own recent work, but also...
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2019 here I come – Starting my printmaking year
2019 Here I Come! Starting my printmaking year as I mean to go on. It’s already the end of the first week of 2019. Is it just me or does each year fly by faster and faster all the time? It’s been a...
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Art For Food Studio Clearance Sale
Art For Food Studio Clearance Sale One of the first events I have planned for this year is a studio clearance sale on Sunday, the 3rd of February 2019 between 11am and 3pm. I’m not particularly unusual...
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An Insight into My Work Process
WANT AN INSIGHT INTO MY WORK PROCESS THAT LIES BEHIND THE MAKING OF MY PRINTS? It is longer than you think. There are various stages: Thinking time Sometimes many months, while I mull over an idea....
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Future Plans for Workshops
Future Plans for Workshops This year his nibs and I have been consolidating the gains we’ve made – we’ve come a long way in the last three years. This spring, alongside getting ready for exhibitions...
View ArticleA PRINTMAKING HOLIDAY ANYONE?
A PRINTMAKING HOLIDAY ANYONE? For some time now I’ve been looking out for an opportunity to hold a workshop somewhere inspirational away from my studio. The search continues. Somewhere in the Hebrides...
View ArticleRemedy for a Body Under Pressure
I bought a chair yesterday … not just any old chair either! ‘What’s so special about this chair?’, I hear you say. Arthritis and spondylosis – I have both these conditions in my lower lumbar. Long...
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Future Proofing My Studio
I’m currently in the process of future proofing my studio. That is to say, as someone who has inherited her parents genetic predisposition towards arthritis, I’m taking a number of steps to ensure I...
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