Over the last year, I’ve been working with Horatios Garden to facilitate creative wellbeing workshops at Salisbury Hospital. Horatio’s Garden nurtures the wellbeing of people after spinal injury in beautiful, vibrant sanctuaries within the heart of NHS spinal injury centres. Leading designers create the accessible gardens where the charity’s team, alongside volunteers and creatives, care for people and plants alike…
Read MoreI was delighted to be commissioned to work on a community project with Hampshire Cultural Trust & CAMHS creating a collaborative installation to transform space in the Eastleigh clinic. The project began with a site visit, exploring the clinical space and area had to work with, from this, I began to see how the installation could work as a journey piece up the stairwell.
Read MoreJoin me in September for a month of creativity as we head towards the new season… Learn how to paint fungi with gouache paints, explore drawing dahlias with oil pastels, welcome the equinox with watercolour wreaths and nature journal the months magic with me…
Read MoreI was delighted to be commissioned by Hampshire Cultural Trust to design and illustrate a 10-window arts trail across Gosport High Street. I took inspiration from the maritime history of the town to design colourful underwater motifs that worked across 10 different shaped windows, in each of the window murals I included a small vintage diver for members of the public to find as they enjoyed the trail along the high street.
Read MoreBack in March, I was delighted to be booked to host a private craft workshop at a Hen Do just a few miles down the road from me. The group had booked a lovely house to accommodate themselves for the Hen do weekend and when they got in touch were in the initial stages of planning out activities for their 3-day celebration, I chatted through some workshop ideas and options with the bridesmaids and we decided candle painting and clay would be a great way to for everyone to get creative and also have something handmade to take home from the workshop.
Read MoreJoin me for a joyful & inspiring month of creativity in April with an online workshop from decorating ceramic eggs to drawing spring blossom with pencil, loose watercolours and nature journaling. Celebrate the magic of the month with a creative class…
Read MoreAs we head through the first full month of Spring I wanted to share a few ideas to creatively connect with the season and celebrate all the month has to offer…
Read MoreLast week, I was delighted to spend the Spring Equinox hosting a vase painting workshop at the beautiful Babington House in Frome. We began the workshop by exploring the acrylic painting motifs inspired by folk art and traditional decorative arts, something I love reading about especially the arts and crafts movement and traditional ways of pattern painting.
Read MoreThe days are getting lighter and longer, camellias are in full bloom, and I’ve spotted daffodils and crocuses in the garden, It feels as though Spring is really on the way so whilst we wait for its arrival, embrace the early spring florals with these creative ideas for the month…
Read MoreJoin me in March for an online workshop exploring spring watercolours, drawing with coloured pencils, mindful mark-making & nature journaling…
Read MoreAs we head into a new month and the last full month of Winter, I thought I’d share a few simple ways to creatively celebrate from bringing some of the outside in, making the birds a tasty treat, flower spotting, making your own botanical stationery and more…
Read MoreWhilst there may not seem as though there is much to be inspired by outside at the moment, there is actually plenty of nature to find and appreciate during these late winter months if you look a little closer. In my Celebrating Winter 4 week course we are focusing on exactly this, looking a little deeper to find pops of colour with rose hip buds, catkins, berried ivy, hellebores and even some early blooming daffodils, blossom and snowdrops. It’s not just the more colourful nature that can spark inspiration but the shapes, textures and movement of dried grasses, interesting branches and trailing dried clematis which is one of my favourites in the Winter, it’s perfectly frothy, magical and wonderfully wild…
Read MoreJoin me in February for a seasonally inspired creative workshop, as we head towards the spring months we will be celebrating the arrival of spring bulbs blossoming with watercolours, creating playful brush lettering with illustrative motifs, mindful mono colour painting and nature journaling…
Read MoreIn next month’s Celebrating the Seasons workshops we are not only embracing the nature of the season but also the celebration of love ready for the 14th, and it doesn’t have to be romantic love, why not celebrate friendships, family, or great work pals that you love with a special card… it might just brighten someone’s day.
So in the spirit of card giving, which I think is always the best part of any celebration, I’m running a workshop session focused on brush lettering and envelope decoration…
Read MoreAround 4 years ago I began Nature Journaling and over the last few years I have been creatively experimenting and working out my journaling style, something that I have actually found is ever changing, but I have settled on some definite styles that I tend to embrace and use most frequently. It began as a way of me being creative that had no ‘endpoint,’ I found I was often racing to get a finished piece and I wanted to find a creative way to enjoy the process. Nature Journaling has turned into one of my most creative practices, it is something that helps me slow down, appreciate nature with a sense of gratitude and allows me to embrace each season for all its magic… including Winter!
Read MoreJoin me in Celebrating the seasons this year, with weekly nature, creativity, journaling and craft workshops…
Each month, I will be running 4 workshops to creatively celebrate the magic of that month, focusing on seasonal plants and flowers, and taking inspiration from what’s going on outside to inspire paintings, drawings, journaling and making. The first 3 sessions of each month are prerecorded and you will receive a link to a video to watch the workshop at your leisure from the chosen release date, the final session of each month will be a live workshop (with a recording available) where I’ll be sharing techniques, tips and ways to nature journal that the magic of the month.
Read MoreI was delighted to be commissioned to design and illustrate a festive window mural for ASK Italian to celebrate the Christmas season this year in my local City of Winchester.
On planning the mural, I took a trip down to ASK to have a look at the space that I would be working with for the illustration piece, I took a few photos and spoke to the team about how they wanted the ideas to work before heading back to my studio to get to work on a draft idea. Taking inspiration from the brand guidelines which included town houses, stars, sparkle and love, I wanted to draw on the housing element to create the base for my scene before adding my own personal touch with some nature elements alongside the sparkle and magic.
Read MoreJoin me in celebrating winter and embracing the sense of calm and tranquillity January offers with a month of mindful creating in rhythm with the gentle pace of nature.
Designed as a completely immersive creative experience, this series of seasonal and mindful workshops will help you find and celebrate the light and magic of midwinter. Throughout the month you will be encouraged to embrace seasonal changes, deepen your creative connection with nature and create your own joy and light despite the soft cloak of darkness this time of year brings. There will be time spent outdoors in nature, foraging materials to inspire your seasonal crafts and your creativity will be further cocooned with 10 hours of live video workshops each Sunday as well as automatic access to all of the January sessions of Celebrating the Seasons.
Read MoreFollowing on from sharing this wreath on Instagram this week I wanted to pop a little tutorial here for anyone who fancied getting crafty but didn’t know where to start to making paper wreaths. I often use my Cricut machine for paper cutting but this week I taught a papercut workshop at a local school and remembered how fun and relaxing it is to actually cut the paper, we also used scissors rather than craft knives and mats.
Read MoreInspired by the celestial cycle, this DIY jewellery Dish is a simple, beginner friendly craft project to try in an afternoon. With minimal materials required, you’ll be able to create something unique for yourself or to gift to friends and family, I think they would make gorgeous birthday gifts…
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