Monthly Archives: June 2017

Oxfam bookshop workshop ! Up-cycle local … make the world a better place and your home more beautiful !

Free workshop Upcycling old maps and musical sheets into stylish journals @Oxfam Bookshop Byres road – Glasgow – 24th September I will be running a 2 hours FREE workshop at The Oxfam Bookshop in Byres road as part of the Byres road book festival on  24th of September for details and bookings please click Here  Continue reading “Oxfam bookshop workshop ! Up-cycle local … make the world a better place and your home more beautiful !”

Fauxidermy – Textile extravagance !

Helly Powell is a textile artist born and raised in Wales. I had the pleasure to meet her at The Royal Highland show this past week end. I was marvelled by her “beasts” !!! Made of beautifully woven and medieval inspired fabric her animal’s heads are a great statement for creativity. Inspired by the traditionalContinue reading “Fauxidermy – Textile extravagance !”

Remember ! Remember ! The makers of the Mackintosh Wartime furniture !

Very rarely you get the chance to be involved in a project driven by “goodness” but a few times in your artist life you come across someone who just wants out of sheer work and creativity to set the record right ! to give credit back where deserved… and its impossible not to get involved.Continue reading “Remember ! Remember ! The makers of the Mackintosh Wartime furniture !”

Come and stencil Mackintosh at The House on the Hill

Up on the Hill, overlooking the Firth of Clyde there is a superb house, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for one of his favourite client Mr Walter Blackie. The Hill House is the very first Mackintosh property I ever visited when moving to Scotland. Its a beautiful building covered of white rough cast, in theContinue reading “Come and stencil Mackintosh at The House on the Hill”