Workshops Overview
All of my workshops are suitable for absolute beginners and people who’ve been creative all their lives and everyone in between!
Map Making –
Turkish Map Fold
We explore the history of maps, mapping elements, design, drawing and lettering while you create your own unique map.
The workshop finishes with you binding your maps using the traditional Turkish Map Fold to produce a pop up map.
Bring an idea with you to work with. In previous workshops we’ve covered holidays, favourite walks, family farms, family trees, well the list is endless.
I have been running this class in various UK locations for five years and each map is a discovery both for the student and myself. You’ll be surprised just how addictive mapping can be and how much you’ll find yourself concentrating on the processes, while still having a fun, I promise you, the two can happen concurrently!
I’ll also be bringing my own maps and a small selection of my own vast collection of maps to the workshop.
The Map of I –
A Fold & Unfold workshop
More information on this workshop arriving in the next few days…
Sketchbook Diaries
This workshop comes from the author of ‘The Diary of an Artist in Lockdown’.
Learn ways, and some tricks, to document your life visually, using collage, hand lettering illustration, maps and so much more.
This packed workshop will give you the confidence to start recording not just the wonderful things that happen in life, but also the small details and the tricky moments.
We all know journalling is good for our souls and peace of mind but not everyone can sit and write, some of us want to include drawings and some of us speak in images rather than with words.
We’ll also cover sketchbook nerves and how to overcome that first mark on the page.
If you can draw, think you can’t draw, haven’t drawn for a while, then this workshop is for you. All levels welcome, everyone will learn something and take away a sketchbook and a head full of ideas!
Brush Lettering
More information on this workshop arriving in the next few days…
Map Making –
Take a Line for a Walk
Take a Line for a Walk in this mapping workshop with Inksmith Christine Nicholls of Inkpot & Pen.
Bring an imaginative or real journey with you, design and create your own linear map with a cartouche and compass rose, finishing the workshop by binding your map into an artists’ concertina book. Christine works as both an illustrator and lettering artist, and will guide and support students throughout the workshop to create a unique personal map.
You can bring any idea with you; perhaps you’d like to record an enjoyable day, a secret walk, a holiday with all its memories, or the dream of a perfect garden. We’ll bring those ideas and memories to life. Bring any kind of reference materials along, be it newspaper cuttings, tickets or photos on your phone and your creative spirit.