Printmaker & Textile Artist
Events
Upcoming classes & exhibitions
2024
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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This workshop is suitable for adults.
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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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This workshop is suitable for adults.
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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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Event Archive
Previous classes & exhibitions
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
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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