Discover the Beauty of Nature’s Palette – Natural Dyeing at Stepney City Farm

This autumn, Ross is running a series of workshops on Mondays during term time. These workshops are run as individual classes, although together they will form the foundations of a comprehensive natural dyeing course. We will be referring to Jenny Dean’s ‘Colours From Nature’ as a dyeing resource. The Autumn Workshops will produce a portfolio…

Looking Forward – The Serpent Eats Its Tail

If you are in Berlin in September, then visit Ludwig, a neighbourhood pub that first opened in 1909 which now also encompasses an exhibition and art space. It should be worth your while. ‘The Serpent Eats Its Tail‘ is the first solo show of the artist Russell James Redwood Harris. Examining ‘primordial transformations and the…

From Garbo to Gaga – the art of Alaïa

I haven’t visited the Design Museum since they moved to the old Commonwealth Institute at the far end of Kensington High Street. I loved the Butler’s Wharf building. I’d seen many shows there over the years as I lived down the road from it for 6 months, sleeping on a friend’s floor when I first…

Looking forward – Summer Tasters at the Stepney City Farm

It’s been a busy couple of week since our last post. We have run our first Mark Making workshops at CassArt Islington. The first part looks at making natural Botanical Inks and homemade Brushes from recycled materials and the second continues the mark making and then looks at techniques such as paper folding and coptic…