Silk Painting Workshop

I am now starting to get in the swing of teaching at home a much larger group this time with a wide range of abilities from very experienced to beginner , all good fun and some fantastic work created yet again

Bovey Tracey Youth Cafe Bunting

An evening spent in the Youth Cafe over half term , which was a little quiet by all accounts , but we still managed to get some Bunting made out of crisp packets with sewn on additions of their own choice BTYC standing for Bovey Tracey Youth Cafe of course !

I was impressed that the boys also knew how to sew , mainly having been taught but their grandmas - good stuff !

Mythic Garden

Monday morning at the Mythic Garden near Chagford. I went with Michael White,Chairman of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, to help give June Ashburner some advice about becoming a Charity  - a rather grey wet day for a walk around the Arboretum but at least the rain held off until after we left.
The trees look wonderful still, even without their leaves.

I love the reflections in the water, but I was also amazed by the number of Sculptures still there left behind by the artists.

Silk Painting Workshop

The Next Silk Painting is on Wednesday 23rd March to see whether I can get more people during the week onto courses as there are never enough Saturdays in the month !
This first session at my studio went really well and a good time was had by all.

Gill created a beautiful shawl with butterflies these photos actually don't do it justice !

Great Social Media Course

Devon Guild of Craftsmen held a free Social Media course on Wednesday I learnt so much and the speaker is great. Kate works for Cosmic www.cosmic.org.uk and she is a lovely dynamic lady who manged to explain all those new words like Tweetdeck  and that have developed in a way even I could understand !

So now I am going to start Tweeting as well ! With my Bunting as the subject to see what I can find out there !

Last Outside the Lines

What a shame it was only for 2 weeks , such a lovely group and it felt like we had just got started, again some great paintings were created - hopefully I will get the chance to do some more courses after September.

Firing Up!

Finally I visited my placement College for The Firing Up Project . (see previous blogs) So I arrived in Tavistock after a foggy drive over the moors, which brought back memories of driving to Princetown a few years ago now.

Great to get some residency dates sorted and look at the space and equipment . The school seem really keen, so its great to start the ball rolling ! Hurrah

The kiln room - everythings working fine so more good news

My heads buzzing with ideas now !