Author Archives: eturnerlee

On growing linen for the first time!

At the start of this year I decided to try growing my own linen after listening to Rebbecca Burgess’ book Fibreshed while I was working on my patchwork. Learning about the Fibreshed movement really got me thinking about where fabric comes from and what I could do to learn more and share this with others. …

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Art Lady features in University of Brighton entrepreneur magazine!

Yes: wouldn’t that be wonderful: Dedicated art and craft studio spaces in sheltered housing and in fact all communal housing? Why not? 🤔 “Lets get to work!”

Some of the parts… I play many parts in my role as an inclusive artist. These are some moments I experienced recently that reminded me of the constantly shifting roles I play at the ‘pop-up studio’ (and back in the ‘art cave’!)

News update from the art cave…

Can’t believe a month has gone by since I last posted! I’ve been hard at it taking the Art Lady pop-up studio on the road for creative art workshops. Here are some pictures of the wonderful work made at some of the sessions… …and I was thrilled to learn a new technique from a visitor …

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We’re in the paper!

Yes indeed! Charlotte Harding has written this wonderful article in The Brighton and Hove Independent about our art group! If you’re in Brighton or Hove this week you can pick up a copy in the library and some shops (I think Hisbes might be one?)

‘Still’ life?

I’ve just started exploring animation (or is this stop motion?🤔) Anyway here’s one of my first attempts. It’s great fun but takes ages to execute! I got thinking about the whole moving picture thing… more like life which is forever changing in spite of our attempts to nail it down!