Art & Craft Businesses After Lockdown

Art & Craft Businesses After Lockdown

Have the fundamentals of your life been affected since the first rumblings of Covid? Have you considered stopping your art or craft business because suddenly nobody is buying from you? Is Facebook squashing your sales posts? Is your organic reach right down to...
Sustainable Printmaking

Sustainable Printmaking

One of the biggest issues for our conscience today, is sustainability. We are now finding ways to ensure every aspect of our lives has a conscience and is not contributing landfill, deforestation, pollution and inequality in workforces across the globe. The internet...
Intro to Linocut: 1

Intro to Linocut: 1

Step 1, positive & negative space. Before you even touch your linoleum, you need to have a great, workable design drawn out. So what makes a linocut successful? In simple terms, you need recognisable positive and negative space. Positive space is the raised areas...
3 Printmakers You Should Know…

3 Printmakers You Should Know…

The rise of so many social media platforms means there really is something to suit everyone’s abilities technologically. For example; I tried Twitter but in all honesty, I don’t ‘get’ it. I think perhaps it is just beyond me as I am a child of the 80s and therefore a...
Start Linocutting!

Start Linocutting!

I know it seems a strange hobby to take up and certainly not a cheap one, but it is a fulfilling one. Since I’m being honest I’ll reveal a secret… I’m a picker. Not spots or noses, but I like to peel wallpaper and take plastic off new things and trying NOT to...