Sometimes one image says a thousand words !!! Here are our words @ The Lighthouse yesterday when I made colours available to the stencillers of #thebigrose !!!
Category Archives: House for an Art Lover
STENCILLING CLASS !!! 22nd/23rd October – The House for an Art Lover
Pushing paint through the holes of a template to produce a design, could be the most simplistic definition of stencilling but probably the most accurate ! Off course you use a brush ! The best thing about Stencilling is the beautiful result anyone can get without being specifically artistic. I love the way participants all usingContinue reading “STENCILLING CLASS !!! 22nd/23rd October – The House for an Art Lover”
DOORS OPEN DAY TALKS – RECREATING MACKINTOSH
Glasgow sees every Mid September a great number of its historic buildings opened to the Public for the very awaited for #DOD (Doors open days). Those which are normally closed to the public open their doors for a few hours… Those who charge an entry fee welcome free of charge many visitors and experts ofContinue reading “DOORS OPEN DAY TALKS – RECREATING MACKINTOSH”
UP CYCLING AS A WAY OF LIFE – a new up cycling class this Autumn – in Glasgow
Many years ago this trunk caught my eye in a “around the corner” charity shop, I remember vividly buying it for £10… that was in the days when you paid “normal prices” for things (that does make me sound a little old but really it was the good times and not so long ago whenContinue reading “UP CYCLING AS A WAY OF LIFE – a new up cycling class this Autumn – in Glasgow”
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”
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 “
Stencils online
Recently I delivered some of my hand cut stencils to The House for an Art Lover’s shop. This is a great property built in the 1990’s after Mackintosh’s design from the turn of the century. Located in the Belahouston Park in Glasgow South Side it has a good number of rooms recreated fromContinue reading “Stencils online”
THE LANSDOWNE HOUSE 