Japan – Textile + Craft Festival

It’s great to be part of the Japanese Textile + Craft Festival again, this year in it’s new home at the Gallery Space, Deptford Market Yard. It is also wonderful that this year the Festival is part of London Craft Week. The festival focuses on the ‘approach to process’ in traditional and contemporary Japanese crafts,…

PRISM Members Day and Private View

PRISM were kind enough to ask me back again this year to document their Member’s Day and Private View for members of the group who couldn’t attend. This year was a huge amount of fun for the members which hopefully comes across in the pictures. The Private View in the evening was also a huge…

PRISM Shibori Workshops

On Tuesday we delivered two free Shibori workshops at the PRISM exhibition Edgelands at the Art Pavilion. Both were a great success with participants travelling from as far a field as Wales to attend and see the show. We had return visitors who attended Ross’ contact printing workshops last year and a lady who we…

PRISM Edgelands

PRISM Edgelands, the exhibition at the Art Pavilion, Mile End, which runs until Monday evening has once again been a triumph. It is wonderful to see such a great range of artist who are pushing the envelope of the definition of what a ‘textile artist’ is. No longer are there just weavers and embroiderers, though…

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…

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…

Signs of the Seaside

As Ross was teaching Contact Printing for the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft Natural Dyeing course, I had the opportunity to catch the wonderful and perfectly formed exhibition ‘Signs of the Seaside’ on its last day. The show looks at the signage synonymous of the British seaside resort, with examples of the typefaces used,…

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

We’ve SOLD OUT! But if you’re interested you can add yourself to the waiting list for next year! We’re really excited about this wonderful development – we will be teaching at the V&A Academy in October delivering a week long comprehensive natural dyeing course. Our five day course at the V&A Academy runs from the 2nd to…

PRISM Warped Workshop

On Monday Ross delivered a free taster workshop as part of PRISM’s free workshop series that accompanies the present exhibition at the Art Pavilion, Mile End. It was a great success, with far more people arriving through the morning than the 10 places we had planned for (we did actually deliver the workshop to 12…

PRISM Warped

Wednesday was the Private View for the new exhibition ‘Warped’ by fine art textile group PRISM. Opened by renowned textile and print artist Sumi Perera, who gave a fascinating talk about her own practice, this exhibition at the Art Pavilion Mile End showcases work from around 50 artists. The work ranges from stunning large scale…

Birthday Weekend – Wedgwood

After our wonderful breakfast at Sat Bains, we drove across country to Stoke to visit the V&A Wedgwood Collection and the World of Wedgwood. Owned by the V&A following a successful fundraising campaign spearheaded by Art Fund in 2014, the collection is on display at Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent. Kevan has been researching four basalt medallions owned…

Handmade Experimental Brushes and Botanical Inks

On Saturday, Ross delivered a hugely successful Handmade Experimental Brushes and Botanical Inks Workshop at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. We were asked to deliver the workshop as park of a season of events to go with the excellent current exhibition Shōji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling. Much like Ross… ‘Hamada developed a…