Arts and Faith Weekend, February 2014

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you'll have noticed that I have been combining my Christian faith and my art journaling a lot more recently.

I have been a part of the Arts & Faith Network of the Chester Diocese for a while now, since their 'Breathing Space' event a couple of years ago, and I'll be teaching at their next event in February next year [see details below]

"Building on the success of its previous workshop days, the Arts & Faith Network is extending its ‘Breathing Space’ format to a weekend for Candlemas, entitled ‘Light Work’ on 1st/2nd February 2014, at Foxhill Conference Centre, Frodsham.

The weekend offers an opportunity to work with local Christian artists and teachers [I'm one of them!!!], including Guest Speaker, sculptor Stephen Broadbent, as well as worship and prayer with an accent on creativity, and time to relax and chill out, maybe with a wintry walk in the grounds. Workshop activities offer a choice of creative writing, and singing, alongside a range of hands-on art activities [including art journaling!]"

And the best news?

There is no charge for this event.

Residential places are limited, so prompt booking is advised. Some day places are available.
For further details and booking information please contact Jane Hood: email jane.hood@chester.anglican.org, or telephone 01928 718834 ext 257.

Oh happy day!

I have had a wonderful day playing!  I was in the company of two very talented artists, Wendy Rudd and Dee Rollinson, who I've known for a while now through the Arts and Faith network.  We decided to have a play day and they both fancied having a go at art journaling, which we did, at the end of Wendy's garden!

What an amazing studio!  Wendy is a textile artist and I'm afraid I did have studio envy ;) [The house is gorgeous too, everywhere you look there's some yummy, yummy textile art!]

Such a beautiful space to create in; in the garden, but warm and cosy!  (although the sun has been gorgeous today)

We smudged paint around on the page with baby wipes, sprayed through stencils, and added die cut and stamped images to our pages.

Of course we dried some of the baby wipes and Dee used some in her pages and on the cover of her journal  (sorry, forgot to take a piccie!)

I wandered from my art journal page back to the piece of cartridge paper I'd demoed on at the start of the day and ended up creating a little zig zag book featuring my Stampotique toadstools.  It was so nice to get back to playing with stamped images again, I've not done it in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages!

Tomorrow is another play day - over at Dee's house.  We're going to paint on canvases - eeek!  [Dee's a real artist!!!]