Last week we made handmade journals by upcycling old Readers Digest book covers. We enjoyed learning a bit more about our shared creative interests and how to pool our ideas to enhance our journals by adding pockets and sheets of beautiful paper and by using quilling...

It’s handmade for Christmas at Open Studio this Wednesday and Thursday from 10am - 12noon. Our Creative Reuse Challenge this week will be to make our own decorations and cards - and get some ideas for creating simple Christmas wreaths and gifts as part of future Open...

This week we will be taking a mindfulness break with Fiona, and having some fun learning more about Zentangles. While Fiona will showing us some basic zentangles, Fiona does turn them into some pretty special pieces. You can also bring along your own creative project...

It's all about Colour with Carol Thompson from Lundy Designs at this weeks Open Studio this Wednesday from 10am-12noon. Thursday we will practice what we have learnt. Carol is keen to use this weeks Creative Reuse Challenge to show us different techniques for making...

Welcome to Open Studio for 2024, I look forward to catching up on everyone's creative projects and to finalise our contribution to the The 10 Mile Collection - entries need to be dropped off to the @Cannery Arts Centre by Friday. We will also do some planning for...

Last week at Creative Reuse Open Studio, work started on an Open Studio entry to the The 10 Mile Collection Exhibition that will open at the Cannery Arts Centre January 2024. You can contact Michelle Crisp on their FB page if you would like to make an artwork for the...

It was a joy to work on the The 10 Mile Collection artwork. With lots of input from the group, and under the guidance of Janet, we were able to finalise the Open Studio piece ready for the opening this Tuesday night at the Cannery Arts Centre. You will be able to view...

Under the guidance of Sue Starr from the Home Environment Network, the Open Studio group took up the Creative Challenge last week to recycle fabric to create wall hangings. The results were a collection of very colourful and interesting artworks - these are still in...

This was a week of celebrating creativity at Open Studio, working as a group on our Creative Challenge to explore paper collage, using cards, small tins and on cardboard. Other people used their time to learn how to crochet, paint, and to finish off their fabric...

Last weeks creative challenge was to use recycled paper, old calendars specifically, to explore collage making - and I think the group made a great start. We also used a lot of donated paper wrapping from 'who gives a crap' toilet paper, there are lots of fun colours....