Printmaker & Textile Artist
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2025
Open Studios 2025
As usual I will be opening my home studio for two weekends and showing a wide range of framed and mounted prints and textile pieces plus affordable gifts including scarves, t-shirts, sketch books and cards.
The wonderful ceramicist Ursula Waechter will join me with her beautiful and functional pots - mugs, bowls, plates, planters etc
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Come and join us for tea/coffee, cake and chat about art, craft and garden things too!
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Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th May
Bank Holiday weekend 24th, 25th & 26th May
11am - 5pm
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102 Craven Road
Newbury
RG14 5NP​
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Insight Exhibition
The flagship exhibition for Open Studios runs from 10-26 May and is open 10am to 5pm daily.
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This is a great place to start and plan your Open Studios visits, it includes paintings, prints, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and much more and has two or three pieces by every artist participating in Open Studios.
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'The Base'
Communications Road
Greenham Business Park
RG19 6HN
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The Base is off the A339 just south of Newbury
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Event Archive
Previous classes & exhibitions
Christmas Fair at City Arts
I will have lots of affordable gifts at City Arts, from hand dyed scarves, T-shirts and bags to sketchbooks with hand made covers and small prints and stitched pictures.
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There will be lots of other local makers and delicious home baked cakes, teas and barista coffees.
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Friday 22 November
Saturday 23 November
Sunday 24 November
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road
RG14 6DB
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Rhythm Exhibition
5 printmakers, 3 inks, 2 formats, 1 prompt and many techniques and interpretations
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I will be exhibiting with Isabel Carmona, Pam Hardman, Kate Steele and Sally Haynes.
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10am - 4pm
Thursday 24 October
Friday 25 October
Saturday 26 October
Sunday 27 October
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Thursday 31 October
Friday 1 November
Saturday 2 Novemer
Sunday 3 November
​City Arts
10 Hampton Road
RG14 6DB
Open Studios 2024
I will be opening my Home Studio on two weekends in May to show my prints and textiles.
The marvelous ceramicists Ursula Waechter and Diana Barraclough will be with me.
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Come and join us for tea/coffee, cake and chat about art, craft and garden things too!
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Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th May
Bank Holiday 25th, 26th & 27th May
11am - 5pm
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102 Craven Road
Newbury
RG14 5NP
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Some work will also be exhibited at INSIGHT at The Base, Greenham
Sewing Workshop: Creative Patches
Jazz up your wardrobe or save your favourite jeans with patches and simple stitches. You can make a denim sampler or bring some jeans.
You will learn some easy and effective techniques and benefit from the joy of meditative stitch and the satisfaction of upcycling.
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Saturday 27 January 2024
10am to 2pm
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road, Newbury RG14 6DB
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Click here to buy tickets on the City Arts Website
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Sewing Workshop: Free Form Patching and Darning
Take mending and upcycling to the next level. Bring jeans or a jumper or work on a sampler.
Let your imagination run free and create dynamic mends and decorations using techniques inspired by Boro, Sashiko, Kantha and traditional embroidery and darning.
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Saturday 3 February 2024
10am to 3pm
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road, Newbury RG14 6DB
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Click here to buy tickets on the City Arts Website
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Artisan Fair at City Arts
I will be at City Arts Newbury Friday, Saturday and Sunday along with lots of other local makers hoping to help you solve your gift conundrums.
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I have hand dyed scarves, t-shirts, bags, sketchbooks with unique printed and stitched covers, hand made cards and pictures.
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Other makers have their ceramics, prints, paintings, quilts, children's clothes, decorations and much more.
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Friday 24th 10am-8pm
Saturday 25th 10am-4pm
Sunday 26th 10am-4pm
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road, Newbury RG14 6DB
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Open Studios 2023
I will be opening my home studio along with the ceramicist Ursula Waechter for 2 weekends and the final Bank Holiday in May as part of Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire:
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11am - 5pm on 20, 21, 27, 28 & 29 May
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We will be showing prints, ceramics, textiles and a variety of cards and gifts.
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Enter by the white side gate:
Craven Road Studio,
102 Craven Road
Newbury
RG14 5NP
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Insight Exhibition
I have two pieces in this flagship Open Studios exhibition which runs from 6-29 May, open 10am-5pm daily.
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It is a great place to start and plan your Open Studios visits, it includes paintings, prints, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and much more.
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'The Base'
Communications Road
Greenham Business Park
RG19 6HN
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The Base is off the A339 just south of Newbury
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The Space Between
This is another exciting exhibition of 2D & 3D work created by Open Studios artists.
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It runs from 9 May to 9 June and is open Monday - Friday 10am - 4.30pm
Closed Saturday and Sunday
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Arlington Arts Centre
Mary Hare School
Snelsmore Common
Newbury
RG14 3BQ
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Open Studios
With Passion
This is an eight-artist print collaboration which is open 6 - 28 May in St John's Church (the big brick one):
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Tuesdays 12 - 4pm,
Wednesdays - Sundays 11 - 4pm
Closed Mondays
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There will be printmaking demonstrations on Tuesday 9,16 & 23 and Thursday 11, 18 & 25 May at 3.30 - 5pm in the adjoining parish room.
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I will be demonstrating chine collé on Tuesday 23 May between 3.30 & 5pm
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St John's Church
St John's Road
Newbury
RG14 7PY
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Open Studios
Free Art Class at City Arts
Friday Art@ the Art Hub Cafe are free adult drop-in sessions for wellbeing. 11am-12.30 on Fridays. Please book with City Arts - a full list of sessions is on their website.
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On Friday 26 May I will be teaching this lovely English paper piecing technique which is a traditional way of making patchwork from fabric scraps...warning, it can be addictive!
Make a flower motif which could become a patch or the start of a bigger quilt if you get hooked.
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road
Newbury
RG14 6DB
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Open Studios
The Longest Day
An exhibition celebrating summer and the summer solstice
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21 June - 2 July 2023
Friday - Sunday 10.30am - 4pm
(other weekdays by appointment)
Free to visit
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road
Newbury
RG14 6DB
Beyond 4 Walls
Inspired by the freedom felt after the lockdowns, this exhibition by TextileArt07 showcases a wide range of work using a multitude of techniques. It is aptly sited in the Control Tower on Greenham Common, a location that became synonymous with freedom for so many local people during Covid.
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5 - 23 July
Saturdays and Sundays 10am - 4pm
Wednesday - Friday 10.30 - 3pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday
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The Control Tower
Greenham Common
Burys Bank Road
RG19 8BZ
Sea & Sky
A group exhibition inspired by the coast along with Isabel Carmona, Emma Green, Sarah Jane Gordon, Helen Long and Petra Geide Barnes: Prints, paintings, sculpture and ceramics.
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Private view:
6pm-8pm Friday 29 September
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Four long weekends:
Friday - Sunday 10am - 4pm
29 - 30 September & 1 October
6, 7 & 8 October
13, 14 & 15 October
20, 21 & 22 October
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road
Newbury
RG14 6DB
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Collagraph Printed Pebbles
In this class you will learn how to create multiple pebble-shaped collagraph plates using a wide variety of techniques and then ink, wipe and print your plates to create several charming composite prints similar to this.
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Saturday 7 October 10am - 2pm
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City Arts
10 Hampton Road
Newbury
RG14 6DB
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