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The wedding of Miss. Burgess will be held at  Rise Hall in Yorkshire, so I took inspiration from the grand surroundings, creating personalised hand made luggage label designs incorporating my watercolour of the beautiful hall, local maps and scrolls.

I wanted us to explore Pop Art, so I focused on the artworks of Andy Warhol. Using bright unusual colour combinations with simple printing and blocking, everyone made their own Marilyn Monroe paintings, then tried their own printing compositions.

As Valentine's Day was approaching I set the task of making inky material heart cards.   I made a batch of waxed and inked scratchboards to give the students a new sensation of drawing and carving their designs.  I asked them to study some trees and draw their interpretations, I think the stark contrast of the black and white lends itself well to the subject matter, giving a night time feel.

In the run up to Christmas we created lots of festive crafts, from felt badges of snowmen, Father Christmas, robins and poinsettias, to 3d reindeer cards and wooden gingerbread men to hang up.

To coincide with the theatre production of 'Miss. Ophelia', I worked with animator Jane Cheadle running a fast-paced animation workshop for 120 primary school children.  Using stop frame animation, the children manipulated scrunched paper 'monsters' to create moving imagery.