Well, the online class was a great success - the ladies were festooned in a magical array of festive outfits & accessories! We had turkey headwear and reindeer antlers along with a rather fetching ‘sprout’ sweatshirt! Spirits were high & everyone was ready to jolly in the 1st of December.

This week I thought I would share a step by step guide to creating your own textural mono-prints from both natural, as well as made resources…….still plenty of leaves around before they get too wet!

Collagraphy comes from the word ‘collage’ and basically its a printing block that utilises basic materials to create a textured surface from which you can ink up to create a set of prints. It is great fun to do and very often the print block at the end becomes a unique work in its own right.

For so many of us, the lockdown brought with it sweeping changes that really forced us to develop new strategies to cope with different working and living demands and eventualities.