Free Demonstration Up-cyling old maps and music sheet in stylish furniture and small items @ The Oxfam Bookshop Byres Road – Glasgow – 13 and 16th July between 2pm and 4pm … Just turn up ! The beautiful West … Continue reading Oxfam bookshop demo ! Up-cycle local … make the world a better place and your home more beautiful !
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 … Continue reading Fauxidermy – Textile extravagance !
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I will be running a full week end of up-cycling furniture in the lovely House for an Art Lover on the 22/23rd of July. for booking look here we have a… Continue reading Tape and paint ! Upcycle the perfect triangle …
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 … Continue reading Remember ! Remember ! The makers of the Mackintosh Wartime furniture !
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 … Continue reading Come and stencil Mackintosh at The House on the Hill
If you ask me of an advantage of sticking to the same job for many years ! The one that comes to my mind is the pleasure of working with old friends ! No need to try and understand a … Continue reading Together we made some chairs ! For an Art Lover’s House
To book for this day stencilling please click here Queens’ Cross church in the Glasgow West end is best know from many as “The Mackintosh Church” ! Indeed this is the only church the Art Nouveau Architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh built. … Continue reading Stencilling with Mackintosh a West end Festival stencilling class #WEF2017
On the 29th April, I was back in Northampton for the last stencilling workshop of 78, Derngate’s centenary celebrations. And the creativity I saw there was extraordinary. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was employed by Mr Basset-Lowke to refurbish the property in 1917 … Continue reading Mackintosh as an inspiration – A great Stencil creating workshop
Some of my “Lost in translation” boards are part of an exhibition at The House for an Art Lover in Glasgow until the 27th of July Cafe Gallery its a varied exhibition of artist who regularly teach at The Art Park. … Continue reading “Lost in Translation”, I up-cycled my Asian travelling impressions on multimedia boards …
I will be running a full week end of up-cycling furniture in the lovely House for an Art Lover on the 22/23rd of July. for booking look here we have a few spaces left… but hurry they are going fast ! … Continue reading Tape and paint ! Upcycle the perfect triangle …
