Creative Days

Wild Canvas weeks 1 & 2

Here's a snap shot of my last two weekends Wild Canvas Camping

Felt pictures, Wind wands, Magic Ts, Art Wall, Peace Doves, Canvas painting, Collage, Wax rubbings, Circular weaving.

And this weekend I do it all over again.

It's been busy, and hot, but the vibe is perfect. This is like a mini festival where kids can't get lost. Everything about Wild Canvas is beautiful. If you like camping, cool music and activities with an earthy feel look no further.

Summer School 2026

2 gorgeous days spent creating together in the giant Tipi Wild Canvas Camping in the grounds of Turvey House & Estate

Turmeric Sun Prints, Wet Felting, mini Tipis, Wind Wands, Collages, Wax rubbings, Watercolour painting, Ink painting, Felt Sunflowers and Sketchbooks!

We welcomed a lovely mixture of old and new faces along. Everyone worked really hard despite the heat and created such beautiful results 🤍

Thanks to all the young artists for helping to make it so special and to my team for all their tremendous support. Lastly to Wild Canvas for offering this amazing location for us to work in 🙏

And now for a dip in that river!

I'll be working at Wild Canvas for the rest of August running workshops for the campers each weekend. It's been super busy so far this year and pitches are selling out fast. Do not miss this hidden gem 🏕💙

New flyers

I'll be Standing In The Wings Events from 10-4pm today The Place Bedford as part of their Well being Fair. This is the perfect opportunity for you to come and say hello and I can tell you all about our Autumn term and the other things we do. I'll be running a 30 minute workshop at 2pm too 💙

Summer 26

Life so far (hanging out with my babies)🤩 and what's happening next..

☀️Join our workshops! Inclusive Performing Arts Bedfordshire FESTIVAL Quarry Theatre at St. Lukes
July 22nd 12.45-1.45pm
July 23rd 10-11am

☀️Come and say hello!
Standing In The Wings Drama
Wellbeing Fair
The Place Bedford
August 2nd 10-4pm

☀️Pitch up!
You'll find us in the giant TiPi doing what we love each weekend Wild Canvas Camping
August 6th-31st
NB our Summer Art School is now FULL
(Aug 11th and 12th, 10-2pm should you wish to join our waiting list)
We'll be sending out all the finer details very soon to those of you with children booked on 🤗

Can't wait to see you all very soon 💙

Homemade sketchbooks 📚 💕

At the end of our summer term we decided to turn some rather gorgeous artwork into sketchbook covers so that it could be shared between the young artists that created it (two drawings ontop of each other using carbon paper) The children helped build these little books themselves adding personal touches of their own. Something to take home, treasure and use over the summer holidays 🤗

We love sketchbooks and every year we make new ones for every child that joins our workshops, and every year they're a tiny bit different. What will September bring?

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Decorated lanterns adorned with hoops homemade beads and ribbon. We love the 70s vibe ✌🤎

Well done for sticking with us on this project Friday crew, it didn't always go to plan and it was hot and sticky too, but just look at your gorgeous outcomes, I'd like all of them please!! 💯

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Key rings made with felt beads, clay beads and paper beads (all homemade) plus bells and ribbons and lots and lots of love 💕 What beauties they all are! Our kids absolutely loved making these (the video shows examples from our teen group too)

We've had lots of enquiries recently asking more about what we do and here is a lovely example. When one activity leads to another then another and even I don't always know where we're going, we always trust that wonderful creative process 🤗

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Groovy interiors inspired by New York based contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas

All the incredible work of our super cool Tween group. What's not to love about the 70s 🤎✌

Take it easy and muse at your leisure this fine evening 🌅

Our final collection of pics taken from our Character Design workshops last weekend, lead by the great Jean Constantial, Computer Graphics artist with over 20 years experience in media and marketing including film and fashion.
Jean has worked in various studios in Paris including the famous visual effects and CGI studio BUF Company. 

I'm sure you'll agree these characters are truly amazing thanks to Jeans skills and expertise. We cannot wait to learn more from him next term!

Character Design with Computer Graphics artist Jean Constantial

Who are they?
What is their story?
Hero or Villain?
Historical or Futuristic?

More fabulous outcomes from last weekend when the children blew our minds with their creative thinking and ability to visually develop their incredible ideas using 'shape language'

We are thrilled with the outcomes and cannot wait to invite Jean back to teach us more next term!