Learn how to create a collection of artworks using botanical elements and images to reflect your relationship with nature.

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Techniques taught:

• preparing textured surfaces with found papers, fabric, gesso, images, inks, pressed flowers, texture paste

• painting on fabric

• imprinting into clay

• layered fabric collages

• printing on fabric and tissue

• adding hand stitch​

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The step-by-step video tuition teaches my techniques that you can use in numerous ways!

My inspiration for Textural Reverence was the the beautiful aged, stonework found in ancient castle and churches.

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I share the techniques that I devised to create a book full of rich, aged-looking surfaces, textures and images, including:

• creating substrates using papers, fabrics, paint, plaster, thread

• my secret technique for printing on delicate fabrics and scraps

• transferring images onto textured surfaces

• drawing and painting techniques... no drawing skills required!

• creating rich, grungy textures

• using plaster to create ancient-looking surfaces

In Enfolded Memories, I show how to make beautiful little concertina books dedicated to the memory of a person, a place, an object or a moment in time.

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Techniques taught:

• basic construction using new paper and found papers

• three types of book closures

• preparing textured backgrounds with found papers, fabric, paint, clay, gold leaf, pressed flowers, plaster

• creating memory bundles

• image transfer techniques

• printing on fabric and tissue

• handmade photograph ‘buttons’

• adding hand stitch

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Follow the step-by-step video tuition to learn my techniques and then take off in your own direction!

Learn how to make beautiful collaged cubes that can tell your stories and capture memories.

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Learn about:

• using new or recycled cubes

• what to look for when selecting the best mix of photographs

• using vintage ephemera or digital downloads to create collages

• adding layers by using tissue prints

• how to create stunning effects with encaustic wax or crackle glaze when sealing the cubes

Learn how to combine beautiful old papers, fabrics, and photographs to create a unique art journal full of textures and intrigue.

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Techniques taught:

• selecting suitable ephemera

• creating pages from ephemera

• assembling pages into stitched book signatures

• creating a book body

• binding your journal

• attaching covers and spine

• how to add collage to your covers

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Follow the step-by-step tuition to learn my techniques to create a journal truly personal to you

I'm so happy to be one of the teachers for Wanderlust 2024!

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Wanderlust is a year-long course in mixed media art journaling, run by Everything Art UK.

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Join me and 33 other inspiring teachers (well known faces AND new talent!) to give you 49 high-quality video lessons, one for almost every week in 2024.

The course has already started but you can still join. As soon as you join you will get instant access to all the content that's already been published in the classroom and you will be receiving weekly lessons until December 2024.