Unless stated otherwise my courses all take place at The Hearth in Horsley, Northumberland. This small rural arts centre has studios for 9 resident artists and I hire a nice big room to teach in with plenty of space for you to work and me to lay out materials. At lunch time we can take advantage of the café on site which serves delicious light lunches ,snacks and cakes and I usually open up my personal studio for a short while so you can see what I am currently working on.
You may be disappointed to find all my courses are FULL so if you really want to get on a course you need to sign up for my newsletter as it is definitely worth being on the waiting list. Students sometimes pull out for one reason out another.
Infant Sunday May 8th at The Hearth Horsley £60 not including garment
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Come and join me for a day of embelllshing tiny clothes with old patchwork, applique and embroidery. I have sourced some lovely things for you to use and will show you a number of ways to approach putting your own mark on a garment and making it a unique art piece.
Please bring an old garment or you can buy one of mine on the day ( mostly £3 -£10 each and all vintage). To be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE |
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Borrowed from Boro Sat May 28th 10-4 at The Hearth £60 including all materials FULL
Traditional Boro textiles from Japan provide the inspiration for this course where the palette will be the blues. The Boro aesthetic patchworks rags and old fabrics together and then holds them in place with lines of obvious running stitching which remind us of the lines and marks of painters and has rightly elevated these beautiful textiles, which emerged from poverty ,into what is now regarded as art pieces..In this course we will not be copying Boro as we will be mixing the cultures up a bit as I will have sourced blue worn quilts from Cumbria for you to use in conjunction with indigo and woad dyed cloth, block printed Indian and ikat fabrics. This is very much free style patchwork which is harder than you think but I shall show you how!
To be put on the reserve list for this course contact me HERE
To be put on the reserve list for this course contact me HERE
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Bloom Sunday May 29th 10-4 at The Hearth £60 including all materials FULL
At the beginning of the summer it seems appropriate to use flowers as inspiration for stitch. They have long been a motif used by embroiderers across all cultures and we are familiar with the careful embroidered flowers found in the domestic embroidered linens found in our own pasts. In this course you will work on to an interesting dark utilitarian patchwork of old suiting samples or a piece of blanket and you will be stitching with wool rather than embroidery thread. You might add a little applique but the point is to stretch your stitch knowledge and develop your personal style to create a suggestion of the floral across the surface. I will show you lots of examples of different styles you can work in. There will be the option to turn your piece into a small bag. I will show you how!
To be on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
To be on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
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Fish Sat 16 July 10-4 at The Hearth £60 including all materials FULL
For a long time I have been looking for an excuse to use my beautiful metallic and lustred fabric and threads and fish have swum into view! Have a go at building up a textile collage of a warm golden cod, a pretty speckled trout, the common herring or another of our British fishes. We will work by hand on to a background of a damask table cloth building up the layers and then putting in the details and the sparkle with hand stitching.
to be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
to be put on the reserve list for this course please contact me HERE
Sea and Estuary Birds Sun 17 July 10-4 at The Hearth £60 incl all materials FULL
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At this time of the year when we are heading to the beach more we can not fail to notice the birds that live near the sea and in our estuaries. I come from Norfolk where the bird life is particularly rich and now the Northumberland coast provides the same inspiration. In this course you will build up a simple background context for your bird and then I will provide templates so you can have a go at the textile collage technique I use myself for building up my bird portraits. I will provide the palette of materials you need to do the job, suggest stitches and give you some ideas for making more of the background with the addition perhaps of some real sea weed and shells! Once you know this technique you can use it to develop portraits of all your own favourite birds and animals.
To reserve a place on this course please contact me HERE |
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Further afield in 2022
Sat January 22 and Sunday 23rd January Red Hen Stitchery online workshop with French General HERE
May 14 Hope and Elvis Vintage Textile Collage HERE
May 15 Hope and Elvis Red Work HERE
23-30 June Stitch Retreat at Le Manoir aux Ecureuils France. Information HERE
3-10 September Stitch Retreat at Studio Preniac, France HERE
9-14 October Textile Retreat Goodnestone Park, Kent HERE
Further afield in 2022
Sat January 22 and Sunday 23rd January Red Hen Stitchery online workshop with French General HERE
May 14 Hope and Elvis Vintage Textile Collage HERE
May 15 Hope and Elvis Red Work HERE
23-30 June Stitch Retreat at Le Manoir aux Ecureuils France. Information HERE
3-10 September Stitch Retreat at Studio Preniac, France HERE
9-14 October Textile Retreat Goodnestone Park, Kent HERE
