From now until 25th April 2026, my community group, Open Art Group Consett, have their collaborative quilt on display at the Willows Café at Willow Burn Hospice in Lanchester.

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I was in the mood for creating some new greetings cards to send to friends and family, and so decided on a small series of spring flowers. Inspired by the flowers coming up in my garden, I carved out a snowdrops design and two different daffodil designs from lino.

The daffodil designs I created the other year, but the snowdrops design was created this year, and was ...

Some of the lovely chine collé lino prints made on today’s private class in my studio. The great thing about private studio workshops is that we can play and experiment, and as well as chine collé, I was also asked to demonstrate gelli plate printing and metal embossing!

One of the ladies also brought some of her lino carvings that she had made previously, to...