A Hectic February

Gosh, this month is going to be busy.  That's the thing with working as a Freelance Artist, you can have a period of quiet where there is no work, then you come across lots of interesting opportunities and they stack like dominoes side by side.  Planning is definitely the key sprinkled with an good portion of forward preparation otherwise it all goes pear shape and you're running around like a headless chicken. (Yuck, what a thought)

It's part three of a creative project I'm working on with artist Carole Miles (The Eloquent Fold) called "Seeing the Wood for the Trees" funded by KHL Big Local.  The theme for this round is winter.  I posted the first week recently.  If you'd like to read about it click here

Seeing the Wood for the Trees - Part Three, Week One

A great project connecting people with a local woods, allowing them to take a walk, click some photos then explore their findings creatively through bookmaking, art journalling and printmaking.

I'm also back at Fermyn Woods Contemporary Education Academy.  I work with the students once a year to prepare them for their Arts Award.  I show them how to make a re-fillable book wrap and pamphlet books.  A very versatile structure that is used to document their progress through the award.  These are youngsters who for one reason or another have been excluded from mainstream school.  I usually sneak in a bit of origami or paper play of some description.

The art award is a great way to improve confidence and self worth.

I'll be demonstration my skills in Lace making at the National Centre for Craft and design, namely tatting which I will blog about soon.

Finally, I am working at Leicester University doing a Chinese Paper Lantern workshop in readiness for the Chinese New Year, which is the year of the dog. Again, I hope to blog about that.

So you can see, my work is very varied and when I'm busy, I'm super busy.

Thanks for reading

Phiona