View from the studio window
Recipe for a blissful weekend:
Take seven ladies, much chocolate, several boxes of supplies (paper, glue, ribbons, washi tape, paints and who knows what else) and put into a studio in the Chief Keeper’s Office of a lighthouse on a remote Scottish island. Add wine and homemade cake and leave for several days to rise gently. Delicious results every time.
Here’s what I made…
A5 hardbacked book
and this little one, which is just three inches high…
and this other little one with pearl and chain stitching on the spine…
I was lucky to share the workshop with wonderful teacher Rachel Hazell, and five very lovely talented ladies (Sarah, Jeanette, Kit, Ama and Emma). Here is what they made…
Easter books (Emma)
Paper cutting (Kit)
Magazine-collage book cover showing Shetland (Jeanette)
Adorable tiny tapestry made on a makeshift loom on an old canvas frame, using ‘shoddy’ from old machines in the lighthouse workshop as thread (Sarah).
Detail from a painting by local contemporary artist Ruth Brownlee, who used to use the lighthouse as a studio. Several of her gorgeous paintings were stored in the workshop and provided wonderful inspiration.
Ahhhh such a lovely few days…
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