Create beautifully shimmery, stitched Christmas cards using textile foiling on fabric. Using simple foiling techniques, make festive stencils and add hand or machine embroidery for extra texture.
Loosen up and let your paint play. In this hands-on course, you’ll create lively marks and textures in acrylic using brushes and everyday household tools, then build them into three bold abstract compositions.
Explore the creative potential of textile foiling and stitch with my self-paced online courses, designed to help you experiment, layer, and build richly textured fabrics full of depth and shimmer.
Foil isn’t just shimmer — it’s a way to add depth, texture, and personality to your textiles. In this course, you’ll go beyond the decorative to explore how foil can transform fabric into something layered, tactile, and full of life.
Combine the shimmer of foil with the texture of stitch. This creative, hands-on course shows you how to layer, embroider, and experiment with simple techniques to create richly textured textile surfaces
Get started on your creative journey with my free online courses designed to inspire, guide, and give you practical tips to boost your creativity.
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Be Inspired is all about encouraging you to see and think about imagery in new ways. I will show you how ideas can be sparked off from everyday things such as textures in your house and garden.
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How you display and finish your creations is so important. After all, you want to be able to show them off to their best advantage. I'll share some tips on the best ways to display your work.
Unlock your creativity with my collection of self-paced online courses designed to help you experiment, play, and grow as an artist. From drawing for collage and creating textured papers, to stitching, embellishment, and working with colour, each course guides you step by step through inspiring techniques.
Learn how you can interpret textures, shapes and patterns from imagery, using simple drawing techniques.
Explore paper manipulation, cutting, layering, repetition and how to combine textures to develop into a collage composition.
An introduction to combining stitching, both hand and machine, with paper collage.
Using paints, oil pastels and other materials, learn how how to enhance textured collage, using stitching to add embellishment. Have fun, experiment and be creative!
Create your own piece of embroidered abstract mixed media art. Let me guide you through the process of generating ideas, planning a composition, experimenting with stitching and making your own textured papers.
Save £43 when you buy all five courses in the Creative Collage Series as a bundle.
A range of smaller projects for you to download (PDF) and work on at your own pace.
Explore the exciting world of collage and embroidery and try out some new techniques. These are inspirational ‘how to’ guides, providing you with the skills and a basis to create your own unique piece of embroidered collage art.
A step-by-step inspirational guide to create your own unique piece of embroidered collage art inspired by rust.
Explore painting techniques and hand embroidery working on paper.
Create textured collaged paper and explore painting techniques, learning how to blend and mix acrylic paints. The addition of simple straight stitching enhances the composition.
Explore painting techniques, free machine stitching and hand embroidery, working on felt and paper.
Take a look at my YouTube channel for FREE videos to learn new skills and see me drawing and painting.