Red, Blue and Yellow – the Florence Trust Artist in Residence Workshops

Well, as they say, that was the week that was! We have the delivered our first series of Taster Workshops as Florence Trust Artists in Residence at our new home in Holy Trinity Church, Cloudesley Square, Islington. We are so lucky to have such a great space so close to home and we’d like to…

Venice By Day

A friend of mine congratulated me on my Venice photographs and commented that it had been very refreshing not to see the traditional Canaletto views in my images, but when in Venice… It a challenge to visit somewhere so famous and beautiful and still be able to frame images that offer something new. Venice by…

Venice at Night

Venice is such a wonderfully photogenic and atmospheric city, whatever the weather and time of day. From dusk and sunset through to the darkest indigo night skies, it takes on a magical quality. The lagoon setting seems to produce the most wonderful sunsets. Our plane landed at around five which meant that by the time…

Venice – Dinner and the Opera

Venice is perhaps best known for it’s beauty and the canals, but it is also known for it’s wonderful food. Situated in the Laguna di Venezia, the local seafood and produce is wonderful. In a place that is a magnet for tourists the world over, it can sometimes be difficult to find great restaurants or…

Venice – Murano, Burano & Torcello

The first time I visited Venice in the late 90s, it was only for 5 days and we didn’t manage to visit any of the islands apart from Murano. With a week pass for the Vaporetto, Mum and I remedied that this visit. Sadly I still didn’t make it to the Isola di San Michele…

Venice – The Working Day

Venice is an amazing place to visit but these photos are of the men and women who live and work in the city every day, dodging tourists and navigating the challenges of moving everything by canal. The Gondoliers Shopkeepers, Market-stall holders, Florists and the Concierge of our hotel. Working on the Vaporettos and Water Taxis….

Natural Dyeing: A Heritage of Colour at the V&A

It’s been an incredibly busy few weeks for us, but as we sit this weekend, a little dazed and exhausted, I can safely say our course ‘Natural Dyeing: A Heritage of Colour‘ at the V&A Academy couldn’t have gone better! There was a huge amount of preparation involved in getting ready to teach a comprehensive…

New Year, New Developments

January is always a grey and dreary month but it’s also a good time to think about the year ahead. Our first workshop is for the London Business School Student Association on Saturday and Ross is delivering Handmade Experimental Brushes and Botanical Inks at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft on the 4th March. This is part…

juliewells.co.uk

To celebrate the selection of Julie Wells’ film ‘Little Rocks In Northampton’ for the @beyondthecurvefilmfestival in Paris, here is a little about the design and launch of her new website. I have known Julie for a few years so I was thrilled when she commissioned me to design and build her site. Julie’s brief was for…

At The Centre Of The Forest

‘At The Centre Of The Forest’ is a piece that was originally planned as a photogravure print. In the end, Jonny decided to use the cyanotype process to produce this large scale piece of 18 A4 sections. Unlike the majority of photographic printing processes, the chemicals used in creating cyanotype images are not toxic and…

Bishops Wood

‘Bishops Wood’ is a large scale cyanotype made of up to 12 A4 panels. The wood at Magus Muir near St Andrews was the site of the murder of Archbishop Sharp in 1675, during the Scottish reformation. The murderers were executed in Edinburgh; the head and two hands from three of them are buried in…

Mummy, what happens when we die?

This work was first exhibited at the St Saviours Winter Show this time last year, (laid out on the wooden bases of the choir pews, in the church that was frequented by Sir John Betjeman as a child) and then as part of Roots at Craft Central. This is the first time that the leaves…