You may have heard about the Art Project I am working on for the Mackintosh Festival next October. It will involve stencilling carpets of Glasgow Style roses outside some of the Mackintosh venues. I will involve the public and some school children in the venture. The idea is to show great design and learnContinue reading “CROWD FUNDING #THEBIGROSE”
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Doors Open day talks #GlasgowDOD
For many years now September has brought a treat along with the doors open day #DOD for a whole week end with a week end crescendo a great number of buildings all over Europe open to the public free of charge. A great chance to discover local history, enter secret places and lean a greatContinue reading “Doors Open day talks #GlasgowDOD”
Stencilling Mackintosh – June 2016
Stencilling and Mackintosh have been the great loves of my working life for the past 25 years… I was lucky to be running a stencilling workshop in his very own church in Glasgow during the West end Festival, 25 years after I had run my first workshop there. The Church is a very special building, ItContinue reading “Stencilling Mackintosh – June 2016”
Glasgow Stencils available at The Hill House
Today I made a delivery of Glasgow Style stencils to the shop of The Hill House, the property that Mackintosh designed at the turn of the century for the publisher Blackie. The Hill house features beautiful examples of Art Nouveau stencilling designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the early 1900’s. It is run by TheContinue reading “Glasgow Stencils available at The Hill House”
Art is the Flower… Multimedia class for The House for an Art Lover’s 20th anniversary – October 2016
This is about the multimedia class I have created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Art for an Art Lover, it will run during the Mackintosh festival in October 2016
Talk – Demonstration on Mackintosh Stencilling at The Hill House – Helensburgh
Being blessed with the great chance to work with stencils I take great pride and pleasure in sharing my knowledge and I will be doing this during the summer in the lovely The Hill House National Trust Property in Helensburgh. That great turn of the century building was once designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for hisContinue reading “Talk – Demonstration on Mackintosh Stencilling at The Hill House – Helensburgh”
The Glasgow Art club frieze ! a modern recreation
At the turn of the century a young Glasgow based architect called Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned to design a frieze for the well known “Glasgow Art Club” … Well that is a short version of the story, it would seem there is much discussion about who was commissioned and who got credit for itContinue reading “The Glasgow Art club frieze ! a modern recreation”
The Big Rose project #BIGROSE 2016 – 2017
The Big Rose project is coming back in 2017 and I am excited to take part in a Heritage Walk with the The Maryhill Burgh Hall as part of The West End Festival on the 10th of June between 11am and 1pm. We will walk throughout historic Maryhill and discover the hidden histories of its industrial pastContinue reading “The Big Rose project #BIGROSE 2016 – 2017”
Would George have been proud ? For historic re-creation we all rely on the first owner’s vanity !!!
“There is a great deal to be learned from the craftsman who intelligently executes one’s own designs… he is as much as a necessity in producing a beautiful piece of work as the designer himself.” George Walton, Lecture to The Philosophical Society, Glasgow 1900 I have described recently in an article I wrote for TheContinue reading “Would George have been proud ? For historic re-creation we all rely on the first owner’s vanity !!!”
Recycle ! Turn old news prints in beautiful objects – Papier Mache week end in Glasgow 21-22 May
If like me you still read newspapers you probably have regularly a trip to the recycling bin with a bundle of very good quality paper and it seems such a shame to drop it in the bin but then again what to do with it ??? The week End work shop I will run atContinue reading “Recycle ! Turn old news prints in beautiful objects – Papier Mache week end in Glasgow 21-22 May “
THE LANSDOWNE HOUSE 