Workshops for 2016

2015 has been a busy year for exhibitions, teaching and workshops; so busy of late that I haven't been very present here on my blog. At the moment I am enjoying a little bit of a rest while I plan for the coming year. If you are interested in joining me for a workshop in 2016 there are now several new dates listed on my website.

Inspiration From Historical Textiles

Last weekend I enjoyed teaching a two-day workshop at my studio in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. The theme 'Inspiration from Historical Textiles' allowed me to dig out some of my textile treasures. My lovely students also brought some absolute treats of their own too. We spent the weekend talking about textiles, making cyanotype prints of textiles, drawing from textiles and stitching into textile. Obsessed; surely not!

Below are a few highlights. If you are interested in coming to one of my workshops you can find more information here.

Workshop wandering

During my recent workshops I have met some delightful folk and enjoyed some really interesting discussions about process and practice. It is always an enormous pleasure and excitiement to see what people will do with a new process or material.

Firstly here are a few photos from my Stitch with Found Objects workshop with the lovely Grassington Embroiderers' Guild (plus a few folk from the Skipton EG too).

And then an Artist Talk and Cyanotype Taster workshop to coincide with the Pick & Mix exhibtion a The Dye House Gallery. It was great to have the run of the college workshops.

If you are interested in joining me for a workshop you can find out more here.

2015 workshops

Before Christmas I had a little hiccup with my website which meant that workshop bookings weren't working. I am pleased to say that has all been fixed and folks are busy booking places for next year's workshops already. Take a look here:  http://hannahlamb.co.uk/Workshops.html

New Workshops for 2015

I have been putting the finishing touches to my workshops for spring / summer 2015. You can now find all the details on my website.

The year starts with Scrap Magic and Repair & Disrepair workshops. These workshops take different approaches to working with scraps and secondhand materials. Cut, slash, stitch and manipulate to create a whole variety of surfaces.

This year I will be teaching a variety of workshops from my studio in Saltaire, West Yorkshire. These include stitch, mixed media and cyanotype techniques. For the first time I will be teaching a two-day Inspiration from Historical Textiles course, taking ideas from antique textile and using hand stitch and cyanotype to create original art pieces.

The ever popular Cyanotype Essentials workshop runs on 25th April and for those who have already learnt the essentials there will be a Cyanotype Experimental Day (16th May) to extend your ideas and individual projects.

Sun & rain

Although we had the wrong kind of weather today, we still managed to produce some great sunprints. Jane, Anne, Louise and Louisa joined me for Cyanotype Essentials at my studio. I never ceases to fascinate me how a group of people given the same materials will create such different outcomes and I love the way we all work so differently... I suppose that is one of the reasons I teach.

I am having a little break from workshops for a brief period as the workshop planned for Harewood House next week is being postponed until later in the year. I hope to be updating the website soon with some further dates in Saltaire.

Workshops

January is always a busy month for me, with lots of assessment to do at college, but I always try to do something creative if I can find the time. Yesterday I was fortunate to attend a Natural Dye & Screen Printing workshop led by Kirstie Williams at West Yorkshire Print Studio. Throughout the day we used four different natural dyes; madder, weld, logwood and alkanet and experimented with mordants to create different colours and to create pattern. I was fascinated to see the different results that could be achieved, layering mordant and colour and radiant results of the natural dyes on cloth. I loved seeing how one dye looks so different on a variety of fibres and fabric types.

Below you can see a few of my photos from the day... I also realise I have been rather remiss in promoting my own workshops. I have just a couple of places left for my spring workshops, which can be booked online here.

Stains on paper

 

Before I went away to Lithuania I taught my last studio workshop of 2013; Paper Textiles. We made a glorious mess during the day and created some really interesting samples with natural stains, papers and textiles. You can find new workshops for 2014 on my website now.

Spinning the web

Well I have spent a good deal of tinker time on this but finally I have managed (fingers crossed) to put my online shop together. You can now buy my cyanotype weed postcards online. I am hoping all the web magic works okay so please let me know if you spot anything odd.

If you pop over to my website you may also spot I have a couple of new workshops listed. There are five places on each so it's first come first served.

Stitching & collecting

Last preparations for my Stitch with Found Objects workshop next Saturday. If you would like to join me I still have a couple of places for last minute bookings.