Lino printing
28 August 2025The art group I host at Warleywoods Community Trust has been lino-printing for a few weeks now and it has been an unexpected hit! The negative/positive concept is a head bender and there’s a lot of cutting both of which usually put people off but they’ve pushed through the pain barrier! 💪🏻. This is […]
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Green Chillis
23 January 2025Here’s the second of my ‘things on a plate’ series - “Chilli’s on a Plate”.
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Lemons on a Plate
14 January 2025Starting a fresh New Year with a fresh new painting – Lemons on a Plate. A watercolour gouache (with a little bit of pencil work) full of lovely bright colour to cheer us up until springtime.
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Abigail McLellan
20 October 2024I love a rainy Sunday like today; a great excuse to snuggle down with an art book.
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Festival of Quilts 2024
5 August 2024Just one reason to love living in Birmingham – the Festival of Quilts is right on my doorstep! I try and go most years as its such an inspiring event full of craft, ingenuity and colour. There are always the most spectacular quilts to gawp at. Some I can’t fathom how they were constructed. Others […]
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Around here lately
4 August 2024I’ve had some lovely teaching jobs through July. I love guiding people to develop their creativity, bump up against some challenges to try new things and feel more confident and ‘can-do’ when they prevail.
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Chasing the sun – cyanotype printing
29 July 2024When the sun shines in the UK you have to make the most of it whichever way you like and for me today it was to use up the remaining half a bottle of Jacquard Cyanotype liquid for fabric and do some cyanotype printing. Cyanotype printing on fabric takes quiet a bit of prep work […]
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From design to stitch – I made a top!
30 June 2024This has been a long time coming. Not just because I really need to be in the mood to sew (this has been waiting 18 months to happen) but because it seems one of those perfectly right, ‘close-the-circle’- things that I think (as a pattern designer/sewer) that I ought to have done by now. And […]
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Japan – May 2024
27 June 2024We had a long-awaited holiday of a lifetime to Japan this year; one week in Tokyo, a few days south in Hakone and then up to Osaka where we could get to Kyoto, Kanazawa and Hiroshima. Tokyo was full-on! Partly because its a 14hr direct flight with some jet-lag but also the scale of Tokyo […]
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