A little something about me…

I’ve been making ever since I was small! You could always find me happily absorbed in craft projects; quilling, fimo, decoupage… to name a few. I was always experimenting with different materials melting wax to create flowers! ( not sure how safe that was!), marbling with PVA! I can’t imagine a life without creativity !

I still enjoy experimenting with different materials and craft is still at the heart of what I do, but it`s about making the craft my own and I do that through play and experimentation. I now make jewellery, which I treat like wearable works of art, paper art and installations. After studying a mixed media degree in Fine Art in the friendly city of Cardiff, I moved to London to do a two year MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art. I began my degree by painting, but soon started creating miniature paper installations and by the time I started my MA I was creating room sized textile installations. I now use a mixture of fabric, paper, wood, perspex, which I laser cut to create my work.

I am passionate about spreading the word about how wonderful creativity is! so I do lots of workshops and projects with different communities from school children to adults suffering with mental health difficulties. I have recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy, which I loved!

Pattern design and laser cutting in Clitheroe…..

April 30, 2012

We started to gather our designs together to create our origami book…we also created new pages creating beautiful patterns using pin pricks…

New Ghosts…..So many possibilities..

April 25, 2012

I started New Ghosts project last week, so i`m working with two classes at Falinge School in Rochdale for Cartwheel Arts. I`m going to be working with the classes, so the children can produce their own artists book based around myths/legends in Rochdale.

My first two sessions went really well….my tuesday group were very enthusiastic and full to the brim with ideas….the monday group today were more cautious, so i think a completely different approach is needed. We looked at various book artists and discussed what an artist book is…..here are some of the artists we looked at…

Su Blackwell

Brian Dettmer

Olafur Elliasson

In both groups i asked them to use their first letter of their first name to create a design that told a story about themselves….there were lots of brilliant ideas…..I thought we`d create an origami book of all our ideas and designs for our final book and this would be the perfect first page.

Pattern Design and Laser cutting in Clitheroe……

April 25, 2012

We only have two weeks left now, so we have started to look back and think about how much we`ll miss our friday mornings…one group member said,”Coming to this course has made me want to make more things and now i want to do everything!.”

It was our last chance to finish off our designs on friday so we were really busy trying to get everything ready….

We put our necklaces on chains/ cord and they looked amazing!…

For the next two weeks we decided to create an origami book of all our designs over the past ten weeks.

Pattern design and laser cutting in Clitheroe….

April 15, 2012

During the Easter break i had time to spend a lovely morning laser cutting all the groups`designs and here are some of the results….

Once we have added a chain this is going to be a necklace…

This is going to be brooch….

Pattern design and laser cutting in Clitheroe….

April 2, 2012

Time seems to be going so quickly….we finished our beak books and started to get our circular designs ready to be laser cut into mirrors….

We`re going to get this lady`s beautiful drawing etched into walnut and made into a picture. We break up for Easter so there is no session this friday- i`ll miss it!