Jessie Chorley Workshop

"Embroidered Collaged Journals"

with Jessie Chorley

We had a fantastic day here at Indigo Moon with Jessie Chorley making embroidered collaged journals.

Next workshop at Indigo Moon is on the 21st May

"Beneath the Surface Patchwork Collage"

Tina Gilmore

"Spend the day working with different techniques in a hap-hazard and whimsically heartfelt way creating beautiful and inspirational Art.  First we will create a multi-layered meaningful background on a wood substrate and apply paints and inks in a way that allows the underneath to peek through..."

Click here for more details and for booking

or go to 

www.indigomoon.co.uk/workshops/workshops.html

XOXO

"Beneath the Surface" - Patchwork Collage

http://www.indigomoon.co.uk/workshops/workshop013_TG_C.html

I'm quite excited to be doing my own workshop here at Indigo Moon Creative Workshops it's been a long while since i've done one.

I'm currently taking stock of supplies and sorting through cupboards and drawers to see what i have and making lists of what i'm going to need. I thought it would be quite stressful but it's turning out to be rather cathartic as i discover old book pages full of beautiful words and illustrations, the hardest decision being whether to cut them up or not!!!

Then there's the paints, bottles and bottles of fluid acrylics, watercolours, gouache, watercolour pencils, crayons with names like Faber Castell and Caran D'Ache

Wood substrates of all sorts to work on

We will be spending the day painting, glueing, cutting, tearing, mending, gouging, repairing using anything and everything we can get our hands on 

(including our hands/fingers if we so wish)

In essence, anything goes on this workshop, there are no rules, just see where your muse takes you, your finished piece will probably look nothing like your planned idea.

Come and join me (Tina) here at Indigo Moon for this workshop, there are still a few places left

http://www.indigomoon.co.uk/workshops/workshop013_TG_C.html

or call 01686 669644 to book over the phone

XOXO

Jessie Chorley at Indigo Moon

The next workshop here at Indigo Moon on the 16th April is the fabulous Jessie Chorley, "Embroidered and Collaged Journals"

(there are currently only two places available on this workshop) 

please click on the link above for booking details

Jessie will be visiting us from her studio and shop in Columbia Road, East London,....

It will be a fabulously creative day learning Jessies journaling techniques such as 

 *Preparing your pages for collage techniques
*Collage of paper and found items
*Creating  a stitched sash for your Journal
*Creating a narrative around your book
*Hand embroidered lettering and drawing with your needle
*Using found and recycled objects to the best of their means so nothing is wasted
*Printing of fabric and paper with Jessies own rubber stamps collection

Please visit:

http://www.indigomoon.co.uk/workshops/workshop006_JC.html 

for more information and booking details 

or

http://www.indigomoon.co.uk/workshops/workshops.html 

to see ALL the workshops available

Welcome to 2016

I can't believe that 2016 is already upon us.....this time last year i'd just started on my idea for running creative workshops giving myself nearly nine whole months to prepare and to start in September.  I won't pretend it was easy - preparing the rooms themselves was a gargantuan task as it meant a complete refurbishment of the shop and home to accommodate my plans.  In addition to this i needed to contact artists and book them, much more difficult when you don't actually have a space as such to show them where they'll be working. But last years artists came through admirably and 

"Indigo Moon Creative Workshops" was born.

This year i have plans to change a few things and there will be things available for sale.  In collaboration with the Gav (hubby) in the Indigo Moon Shop, and after many requests, we will be selling small items such as antique/vintage sewing/cotton  boxes, textiles etc), 'kits' in line with workshops such as fabrics, boxes, papers etc and much more (this will not affect the normal supplies available freely to participants, just the more expensive rarer fabrics and such).  Additionally, as i have had so many requests from participants to purchase the artwork in the workshop area (this being my own collection and unable to sell) there will also be various artists works for sale and exhibitions.

Workshops for 2016 currently confirmed are:

Jessie Chorley - Embroidered and Collaged Journals - 16th April, 2016

Mandy Pattullo - Folk Art Textile Collage Workshop - 5th June, 2016

Ali Ferguson - Patchwood Samplers - 23rd July, 2016

Please click on the links above for more information about the workshop, costs and booking details.

Now for some photos of fabric samples that i will soon be making into kits, 

gorgeous eye candy

XOXOX

Hens Teeth Workshop

It's a horrible rainy Sunday morning here in Montgomery, and i'm safely tucked up on my comfy sofa, in my 'pie jarmas' (said with an exaggerated (undermilkwood(esque) accent) browsing through yesterdays 'Hens Teeth' workshop, which went all too quickly:

 L-R:  Viv, Nichola, Ginny, Janice, Stephanie, Julie, Julia, Lisa, Nicce; 

Back Row:  Liesa and Becky

 Indigo Moon Haberdashery Gift Kit

 Messy Tables-R-Us

 Becky's gorgeous carrot cake,which managed to get eaten before i could photograph it!

 The lovely Nichola in her Janet Clare Apron Dress

 Happiness is Viv's cottons

 Coffee/Tea/Cake/Relaxing Room

 Viv setting up

 More cake

Thank you to every one who attended and made the day such a success

Indigo Moon Creative Workshops are having a little break now, but we'll be back in March with the very fabulous 'Marna Lunt' (5th March)

Indigomoon.co.uk/workshops