Wire bird workshop.....

A really fun workshop I did recently was making this little wren at a wire bird making workshop.....

With a group of friends we all headed to Jimbobart's shop just off Brick Lane where a very talented Zack McLaughlin taught us how to make a wire bird. We were a little late and Zack was kind enough to rearrange the shop in order to squeeze us into the corner. Giving us a sheet of bird outlines to help us begin along with a stack of wire and wire tools off we set. He makes it look incredibly easy which it isn't believe me. This little guy above took me the whole 2 hours and I didn't even touch any of the wine on offer! Even though we look very serious in the pictures it was a great night out and a great atmosphere, all organised through Indytute. Check out Zacks facebook page to see some of the amazing paper birds he also creates.

Rag Factory Exhibition....

Last week we entered some pieces into an impromptu exhibition at the Rag Factory, off Brick Lane.

'ForSee-Arts of Mind' was a mixed media exhibition of established/up and coming artists ranging from paintings, filmakers, sculpture to photography, who came together to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease. The exhibition collected one piece donated by each artist/photographer to be auctioned off on closing night to raise funds for Parkinsons UK Charity.

Here is the lovely organiser, Jessica Sarah, who did a great job organising the whole exhibition as part of her degree course:



Here are our pieces we entered (it's a shame that the bottom one hasn't come out that great but in-situ it looked really good, honest!!):



Here are some of the other artists:




Including Neil Benjamin, whose work I loved, you could stand for hours looking at it and still find something new in there... See more of his work on his website to get a better idea as I forgot to take my nice camera so these really don't do the work much justice!!



and here was some great work by new and upcoming illustrator Lucy Wragg: