Workshop news…

Posted on 1st November 2013 by perfectly4med

For those that haven’t noticed yet, I’ve added some new dates for next year on the Workshops tab:

Come & Craft sessions on a Tuesday night continue to be popular – recent projects include napkin decoupage, dry brushing techniques, image transfers and glittering on acetate.

The Come & Craft Christmas Party will be 11am-4pm on Saturday 4th January 2014 – perfect for boosting your creativity and do bring your crafty presents for show and tell 😉

And on Saturday 1st February 2014, 10am-4pm, sees an introduction to Zentangle Inspired Art including a book of my tangle patterns and tangling pens to take away.

For full details and to book, head on over to the Workshops page 🙂
And if you’d like any of the workshops on a weekday, this can often be arranged, just let me know 🙂

The Creative Expression Experience

Posted on 24th October 2013 by perfectly4med

I spent the day yesterday in the company of most of the new Creative Expressions Design Team, and what a day it was 🙂

Aside from the personal introductions, I also had a sound introduction to the product line – and I have been sooooo missing out on some of these goodies. Of course the credit card is now getting battered as I build up my stock of Creative Expressions/Cosmic Shimmer goodies ready for creating my design team projects, but play time ahead! I hope to be adding a quick product review to each of my posts as well as I learn the dos and don’ts of each medium. Watch this space for CEDT projects each Wednesday: I’m busy working on a top secret project for them as well, ready for a future TV airing – fingers crossed 🙂

You’ve done it! 250,000 hits reached

Posted on 10th October 2013 by perfectly4med

Well done to you all – at some time during the night (GMT+1) my little blog counter tipped over the 250,000 views mark. Next major giveaway will be at 500,000 views and if the current rate of views is maintained, that’ll be in around 6 months!

And the winner of the giveaway was…. Robin Pich – who pipped Meret to the post by just a couple of hours. Congratulations to my ‘newest follower’ and check your email inbox!

Exciting news!

Posted on 3rd October 2013 by perfectly4med

I’ve just received an email informing me that I am now a member of the Creative Expressions Design Team 2013-14 🙂

I’m delighted to have been selected and look forward to sharing my projects with you using their stamps and products.

More from the archive…

Posted on 16th September 2013 by perfectly4med

Here’s another discovery from the study… Two photos of my special hair do (yes, I once had hair) for Comic Relief 1993:

Look what I found cleaning out my study…

Posted on 16th September 2013 by perfectly4med

Possibly one of my earliest surviving artworks, from 1985 when I would have been 14… Later strips weren’t coloured and I used a typewriter to add the text. I seem to remember the inspiration stemmed from the fabulous Classical Studies classes led by Mr Boulting at school, where we were asked to do comic strips to illustrate the mythological stories of Ancient Greece and Rome.

It’s another giveaway…

Posted on 18th August 2013 by perfectly4med

I snuck in some ‘me’ crafting time at the end of last week, and spent 10 or so hours creating my next blog giveaway. As promised, I am going to celebrate 250,000 views on this ‘ere blog soon, and in honour of this will be giving away a piece of unique art. Here’s a sneak preview…

All you have to do is leave a comment (constructive, spam won’t count!) somewhere on my blog – whenever I notice the views click over the 250,000 mark, whomsoever has made the most recent comment, gets the prize! It’ll help if you sign up for email updates as I shall be posting regularly between now and then…

Studio Open Weekend

Posted on 8th July 2013 by perfectly4med

I’m holding an

OPEN WEEKEND

on each day over

Bank Holiday Weekend, 24th – 26th August, 10am – 4pm.

at my studio for people to come and look at samples of work and sign up (and pay) for workshops. If you’re in the area (Leicester, UK) and interested, then do drop by.

For more details, email me.

College Course – Term 6 – Final Exhibition

Posted on 28th June 2013 by perfectly4med

Where has two years gone? Seems to have flown by! And so, I come to the close of my course, and here are the pictures of my final exhibition. I have studio pictures of the final pieces to post as well, and they’ll come in due course. I’ve used a bit of Photoshop jiggery-pokery to get some of the detail right in the exposures, but the light level on the day was more the dome pic than the globe pic (i.e. not as dark as I’d like, but hey ho!).

Wanton self promotion!

Porcelain pieces

Paper/card pieces

Keep an eye out for the individual pieces as they will be for sale, complete with free light! I don’t have enough room to store them or display them, so it’s only right they should find a new loving home 🙂

College – Term 5 – Final Ceramics Piece

Posted on 21st June 2013 by perfectly4med

This piece from last term won’t be exhibited at my end of course show next week, so now it’s been fired and assembled, I thought I’d share it with you here 🙂

The brief was to create a ‘Cornell style box’ (i.e. an assemblage) based on my chosen collection, which, for last term, was beads. The base and top were scaled up from a metal filigree bead, with the top flowers being formed from a mould made using lucite beads. The hanging flowers were sliced from a clay extrusion using my own custom laser-cut perspex die and then individually hand carved and pierced. The clay used was earthstone which goes cream/white when fired, and I decided to keep it unglazed.

The filigree section was formed by sticking down D-shaped extrusions to form the pattern, using slip, and then I used a fine potter’s knife to cut out the enclosed sections. This obviously took the most time! Just as the box was finished, I managed to drop it – a gut-wrenching moment, but happily not much got damaged and the clay was still soft enough to work out the kinks. After that, I was a lot more careful!