Textile & Mixed Media group Up-Front. Check out our website to see what we are up to - including our current touring exhibition of Altered Art Braswhich is also helping to raise money for breast cancer charities.
www.corinnephillips.co.uk Corinne Phillips - also a member of Up-Front, is a mixed media & textile artist - but primarily she is an inspiring Fairy Tale Maker. www.malvernbandbconsortium.co.uk/the_elms.html Jill Holland from Up-Front runs a beautiful guest house in Malvern called The Elms...... as does...
www.sunnyvalehouse.co.uk Judith Clarke - Up-Front member who moved to Whitby, North Yorkshire in 2007. She and her husband now run a guest house called Sunnyvale House.
www.cropvale-farm.co.uk Up-Front member Sue Hutchings also runs a guest house! Cropvale Farm, at Pershore, Worcestershire.
www.jackieharrisglass.co.uk Glass artist Jackie Harris produces beautiful and contemporary stained glass windows, as well as smaller handcrafted items.
www.jodewar.com Jo Dewar is a contemporary textile artist who makes exquisitely crafted pieces, including coloured wire jewellery and little paper shoes.
www.creativeceramicsculpture.co.uk Denise Russell is a contemporary ceramic artist whose work 'fundamentally combines textiles and ceramics together in an exciting and innovative contemporary format'. www.artistree.org.uk Herefordshire based artists co-operative of which I am a member.
www.farrow-ball.com Farrow & Ball, manufacturers of traditional paper and paints. I use Farrow & Ball paints to hand-finish my framed pieces.
www.beverevivis.com The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester. 'A major centre for the visual arts - showing original crafts and artwork, prints and ceramics'. http://www.blue-ginger.com Inspirational Art and Crafts Gallery, Worcestershire.
www.makersguildinwales.org.uk Craft In The Bay Gallery, 'showcasing and selling fine contemporary craft in the
centre of Cardiff Bay'. www.embroiderersguild.com Embroiderers' Guild - 'the UK's leading crafts association'. www.selvedge.org Selvedge magazine - 'The fabric of your life: textiles in fashion, fine art, interiors, travel and shopping'. www.craftanddesign.net Craft&Design is 'an exciting and vibrant magazine' about British crafts.
www.coaster.co.uk 'Custom-made coasters, placemats, glass kitchen boards, mouse mats and mugs'. I have a range of mats and coasters made for me by the Coaster Company and soon to be featured on my website.
www.funmats.co.uk 'School Fundraising Ideas from the Coaster Company' - see above and below.
I have recently been asked to be one of the judges in the Leukaemia CARE National School Art Competition and I'm delighted to be involved. The competition theme is: 'My family – the people who CARE for me’. 2009 will mark the 40th birthday of the charity Leukaemia CARE. To celebrate - and in association with FunMats- it is holding a school art competition from December 2008 to the end of June 2009. The age categories are: 5-6 years, 7-9 years, 10-11 years. Why not get your local school involved? Click on the logo below and go to 08-09 Fundraising Events to get all the details.