Over the past four months I’ve been working at Bluecoat Arts Centre with a group of volunteers on their Growing Creativity Project, which is helping people with learning difficulties and disabilities to reshape the Bluecoat Garden and create some unique artwork for the outdoors space. The Bluecoat Arts Centre is situated in the heart of …
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And the winner of the Oakwood Art Competition is….Jane. Congratulations to Jane, who produced some lovely drawings and worked hard to put into practise new techniques learned whilst on a school trip in the Dordogne, France. She was really willing to try out new things and to develop her thinking and her skills in all …
I have been very fortunate to work with Groundwork Cheshire on a commission at their Grozone project since October. The commission is an extended participatory project – working with volunteers and visitors to the Community Garden to create an arts trail using materials from the garden around the theme of Humans within our Landscape. At …
As part of the arts trail commission for Groundwork we have been working with willow grown in the community garden at Grozone in Northwich. Using nature’s own resources and working with the ethos of Groundwork, the garden and the volunteers we used willow cut freshly from the grounds and from the weeping willows along the …
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STOP PRESS: Santa is officially visiting this Saturday’s Craft Fair at Inspire – Saturday 3rd December 12-4 – so don’t miss out on your chance to meet him and have your photo taken to take home and remember your visit. He’ll be arriving to a super duper grotto at Inspire at around Midday, so come …
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This week sees the fourth Buy Art Fair, taking place at Spinningfields in Manchester. If you’re in the market for some high quality art at an affordable price then this is the place for you. Galleries and individual artists from across the country are coming together to show you the very best in original and …
4 Week Class Starting September 5th This class will run every Monday evening for 4 weeks, for beginners and those who have some experience of drawing and painting. The course will introduce you to the basics of acrylic painting, making use of sketching, investigations in colour and a range of techniques to develop your own …
EVOKE//INVOKE//PROVOKE For the duration of the Chorlton Arts Festival a selection of my work incorporating text will be on exhibition at the Nip and Tipple in Chorlton, Manchester. The works span from 1999 to present, offering a precursor for other work being developed for the Buy Art Fair in October at Spinningfields in Manchester City …
Following a full day film shoot on Thursday 5th May with a talented and skilled crew and cast, I can confirm the Film Screening of ‘An Intervention in Chorlton’, a concept developed for Chorlton Arts Festival by the Internation Intervention Clash Mob, of which I am a part. The project centres on the concept of …
New Art Class Starting at Levenshulme Inspire – May Following a series of successful classes before Easter I have commenced a new series of classes on Fridays 10-12 at the wonderful venue of Inspire in Levenshulme. Situated on the A6 only 5 minutes from Levenshulme station, the venue is in a converted church, with a …