20th September – My sponsors are local business ! Any good project relies on a great idea, some supporters, a pile of hard work and … A number of well meaning sponsors ! That is why this year I decided to approach three local companies for some help and guess what… They said yes !Continue reading “The Big Banner – the diary”
Category Archives: Art work
Map your memories ! Up-cycle to recycle your cherished maps !
I will be running a block of 10 weeks block of up-cycling class with the House for an Art Lover starting on the 14th September. Its a great way to learn new paint technics and to up-cycle small pieces of furniture. For info and bookings look Here A while ago I used some old maps toContinue reading “Map your memories ! Up-cycle to recycle your cherished maps !”
In Thomson Greek Style
I will be running a workshop on the 29th July as part of the Merchant City Festival on how to stencil “Greek Thomson Style” ! For details and bookings check Here The Victorians were definitively interested in style ! After all they had to compensate for a recently gained status and a complete lack of lookingContinue reading “In Thomson Greek Style “
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 !”
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 !”
Together we made some chairs ! For an Art Lover’s House
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 new creative partner ! To work out what they are like ! What will upsetContinue reading “Together we made some chairs ! For an Art Lover’s House “
Stencilling with Mackintosh a West end Festival stencilling class #WEF2017
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. Its a very special building as today it houses the headquarters of the Charles RennieContinue reading “Stencilling with Mackintosh a West end Festival stencilling class #WEF2017”
Mackintosh as an inspiration – A great Stencil creating workshop
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 in a trendy, practical and beautifully harmonious house for himself and his young bride. SomethingContinue reading “Mackintosh as an inspiration – A great Stencil creating workshop”
“Lost in Translation”, I up-cycled my Asian travelling impressions on multimedia boards …
12 of my “Lost in Translation” boards and canvas are part of The summer exhibition at the Glasgow West End Thistle gallery between 17th of August and 3rd of September. I will be running a week end workshop on multimedia memory using similar techniques. We will be making boards at The House for an Art Lover in Glasgow.Continue reading ““Lost in Translation”, I up-cycled my Asian travelling impressions on multimedia boards …”
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”
THE LANSDOWNE HOUSE 