Please scroll down to see a selection of imagery from creative events that I have designed and facilitated. They include a variety of photographs of workshop participants' creations.
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​​A day of Experimental Weaving for beginners at Ceridwen Centre in The Pole Barn, a wonderful eco barn conversion on an organic farm in Carmarthenshire, where they provided us with a delicious lunch. Participants learnt to warp up a frame loom and how to weave a wall hanging. They were taught a variety of weaving stitches and used their creativity to explore colour and texture. They used coloured yarns and mixed media such as beads, shells, buttons, wire, thread and feathers.  ​

​A whole day of Creative Papermaking for beginners and intermediate levels using the pouring pulp method, with recycled papers. Explorations involved adding inclusions such as petals and leaves; embossing, stripes, layering and expanding of scale. It took place at the inspiring eco build Y Stiwdio, Hermon, Pembrokeshire and was hosted by Cwm Arian Renewable Energy. It was funded by Community Foundation Wales. 

​I was invited by the Pembrokeshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers to teach this beginners Creative Papermaking workshop, in Y Stiwdio, Hermon. They were creating paper with a view to making their own paper books to add a woven, spun and/or hand dyed cover to, as part of a National Guild exhibition happening in the Autumn. Handmade recycled papermaking is a lovely additional personal touch to the exhibition brief. ​

​This beginners Creative Papermaking workshop used recycled paper and a variety of textural additions including plant matter and threads.
It took place at the beautiful eco building Y Stiwdio, Hermon, Pembrokeshire; a Cwm Arian Renewable Energy venture.
The workshop was funded by Community Foundation Wales.

Beginners Weaving
At the welcoming The Open Door Natural Health & Wellbeing Centre, Lewes, E. Sussex with the Monday Wellbeing Group.

Exploring Textiles 10 weekly session course,
explored Stitch, Recycled Papermaking, Paper & Fabric Collage, Feltmaking, Needle Felting, Weaving
& Rag Rugging. This took place in my Sun Room when I was living in E. Sussex.

Creative Weaving with mixed participants plus Vision Board Collaging, Branch Weaving, Needle Felting, Nature Mandala & Card Making sessions with South Downs Hub & WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise).
These sessions took place over a series of years inside and outside at a wonderful venue, Spithurst Hub, Barcombe, E. Sussex; as well as at a group member's house.

Lewes Artwave Festival
Felt Leaf making workshops, adding additional stitch, with Well-being Tree, Southover Grange Park, E. Sussex.
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The finished felted & stitched leaves were then displayed in the trees in the park.

Below Exploring Textiles workshops Part 1 & 2, Exploring Collage and Collage Card Making
at the light & bright Made and Making, Hassocks, W. Sussex

 A series of Exploring Collage & Card Making workshops
at Much Ado Books, an eclectic, independent bookshop in Alfriston, E. Sussex - an ambient space to be creative in.

Card Making & Mandala Collage
at The Koorana Centre, a nurturing and creative space in Ardingly.

Here I designed and taught an Art & Design syllabus
over 10 summers, for International teenagers, in Bede's spacious Art department at Bede's Summer School.

These photos incorporate imagery from a carnival arts workshop collaboration with drama, dance & music practitioners; as well as a commission making banners for children to use in school assemblies, in the south east of England, with Bigfoot Arts Education.

Creative Textiles Day Workshop
Pumpkins were the theme for this Creative Textiles workshop, at the house of feltmaker friend Gladys Paulus
I was invited to run a workshop as part of a series of days where friends shared craft skills.

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