Recording the hand prints of our wee ones is such an impulse, don’t you find? I guess most of us have done the almost obligatory hand (and feet!) in the paint splodge paintings with our children at various sizes. Or plaster of Paris…or even casting them in that gooey putty that sets in minutes and […] Read more...
Mosaic Making Workshops
I started running mosaic workshops in my small studio last summer. The current course is nearly at an end and I am just having a ball with yet another wonderful group of students. I have a professional training background, so facilitating learning is not new to me, but I am surprised just how much I […] Read more...
Paper art and lovely spring blossoms
Here’s another of the activities on the great experimental art e-courseI am doing…making art from paper, anyway you want to. Ripping, sticking and in Isabella’s case, lots of scrunching. She decided to do a picture of a tree in blossom with little balls of scrunched up tissue paper – so beautiful and effective. I love […] Read more...
Arts, Kites and Musical Delights
Phew! What a weekend… Isabella, Toby and I went to the launch on our new local community arts gallery, Sprout. It was a drawing free for all, including the walls. Not every day you can draw on walls. Isabella suggested we draw each other and then draw ourselves – can you spot whose who? (clue, […] Read more...
International Postcard Swap
Just a quick post this morning as I am rushing around trying to do 10 things at one (its a little boy’s 3rd birthday this week…things to make, things to buy!) Zoe at Playing by the Book is organising an international postcard swap for children to take part it. Kids send 5 postcards to 5 […] Read more...
Mother and daughter doodles
I have just started on Amelia’s Experimental Art E-Course– fun, inspiring exploration of making art using different mediums. Week one. Me and my daughter sit at the table together with pencils, charcoal, felt tips and crayons, our aim is to doodle, to make marks without fear of what will be produced (kids are great at […] Read more...
Perot Family Land Art Part 2
‘We will make a Family Picture’ declared our beautiful artist child. And so we did. By now, the sea will have taken it away. Happily, we have camera’s to capture our moments (aren’t we lucky?). Read more...
Being a mother and artist- passing it on
A brief hello to you all from our south coast holiday where we are reveling in the arrival of spring – blue skies, 16 degrees celcius and the smell, sound and touch of the seaside to revive me. Happy, happy. Today, on the beach, Isabella declared that we will make a Family Picture in the […] Read more...
Isabella’s Land Art
Have you come across Land Art? A few years back, I discovered a book by Andy Goldsworthy and sat for ages enjoying this delicious feast for the eyes. The other day, I was doing the first garden tidy up of the spring and out of the corner of my eye I saw a very industrious […] Read more...
Experimenting with art
I want to introduce you to my first sponsor and new friend, Amelia. One of the things that I love about blogging is meeting new people and making connections that would otherwise not happen. It feels especially lovely to have met Amelia through the blogosphere as she is not only a fellow artist and mum, […] Read more...