February opens with a few bright days and the Spring to look forward to. So good to see a few hints of brightness in the garden and elsewhere.Equally, I see Spring as a time of planning and looking forward and whilst I can do fewer workshops I have been planning some to take place both on-line and in-place 2025 with project partners in 2025 which I am really looking forward to. Confirmed workshops are listed below by location.
My only international in place course this year is with the lovely guys at Creative Experiences in Spain from 14-21st October 2025. This will be one of the rare opportunities I will have to work away from home doing what I love in beautiful surroundings with our wonderful hosts Nadine and Mark. The work below is a tribute to creative stitching and companionship.
I am delighted to be back at West Dean College at their beautiful historic campus in the heart of the Sussex countryside, at the new London Campus in Bloomsbury, and on line via Zoom. Read my recent interview on creativity and challenge with West Dean here.
By enlisting ‘found objects’ from your own personal collections or those found at West Dean College, we will explore different tools to paint and mark cloth and paper substrates creating samples inspired by locality and place. A series of creative exercises will further help to develop personal expression and add meaning to your work and to connect a sense of place to your collection and ideas.
Investigate deconstructing and subverting the narrative form of maps, or book-related objects to create new forms of mixed media paper and textile-based work, which reference a physical or reflective journey. Develop your visual narrative as you stitch, paint and collage a bound or modular work loosely based on a book-form.
Two workshops for you, with space in-between for you to go off and explore the techniques learned in Class One; Cas has asked that you attend BOTH parts to get the most of the techniques.
Take the fear out of using a sketchbook. Learn creative ways of developing ideas through mixed media including dyeing and staining pages, drawing with found objects, stitching and layering.’
Finally, but by no means least,
Making Connections my signature online course with Fibre Arts Takes Two is now available on-demand. Beautifully filmed it is especially designed for those willing to take a risk and become empowered to create work that truly reflects their unique voice and perspective. 'This self-paced course is a rich creative resource full of inspiration and ideas to last a lifetime'.
More workshops open to enrolment will be posted on my website as they are confirmed during the year. I am also giving talks and workshops to art groups and organisations during the year. If you are interested in finding more
please get in touch.
As to my own work. I still create. I stitch in-between things. Maybe even 'a stitch in time'. It is about making time to hold on to my creativity.
It takes TIME, -or rather than seeing it as time "taken" see it as Time "given" to the things you love and want to do (as opposed to the things you have to do)
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