Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Reminder: Workshop this Weekend at Charleston House in Lewes, East Sussex!
Spaces are still available for my workshop this Saturday
'Design and make a 3-D paper-cut Christmas card'
'Design and make a 3-D paper-cut Christmas card'
To book, please go to Christmas@Charleston
3-d paper-cut cards using Windsor pastel papers © Su Blackwell
Saturday 3rd December 10am - 1pm
All materials, and tea and coffee are provided.
Saturday, 26 November 2016
Now Showing at Long and Ryle until 16 December
LONG AND RYLE CHRISTMAS SHOW
The Sleeping Beauty Castle available from Long and Ryle Gallery.
For details and price, please contact Kinga at gallery@long-and-ryle.com
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Plumlines Exhibition at Croome Court
Plumlines is open daily at Croome Court, Worcester,
for details, visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croome
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
'The Alchemy of Woman Hood' by Dolores Rice
Cover Illustration by Su Blackwell
Written in a lyrical and poetic voice, The Alchemy of Womanhood is a unique health book for young women. Unlike other straight-informational books, The Alchemy of Womanhood focuses on comforting young girls entering puberty, and indeed women well beyond, while also informing them about body development, relationship, and lifestyle in a profoundly essential way. If shared between mother and daughter, both will find the book helpful and soothing when cusping this momentous phase. If read alone, the reader will feel as though she is discovering a precious secret due to her readiness.
Descriptive and comforting in its tone, The Alchemy of Womanhood gently weaves its way through what it is to become and be a woman in the world today. It attempts to uncover the mysterious elements of womanhood at the source of feminine knowledge and wisdom. It reveals the strength to be gained from embracing the essence of womanliness and the beauty that arises from learning how to celebrate female physiology for what it is: a powerful expression of the very essence of Life.
Available here: Alchemy-Womanhood-Dolores-Rice
Monday, 14 November 2016
Croome Plumlines Exhibition Officially Opens in Worcester this Weekend
The new ‘Plumlines’ exhibition is a collection of real life stories
expressed through 188 one-hundred word poems, written by people from across
Worcestershire about a female relatives life during the First World War and is
on display from 19 November 2016 until 19 November 2017.
The inspiration for Plumlines came from a little known story at Croome,
of how a woman before her time the inspiring American heiress Viscountess
Deerhurst, helped the 9th Earl of Coventry see the many ways in which women
could provide crucial support to the men at the front line.
It was Virginia’s commitment and strength that helped Lord Coventry
mobilise Pershore’s first ever Women’s Institute (WI), by encouraging 100 women
to meet. The WI’s jam making skills, using the Pershore plum, helped the war
effort at home and on the on the battlefields where it was sent to help keep up
the calorie intake of the troops.
Join us at our launch
Visitors are invited to the launch of
the exhibition funded by Trust New Art, on 19 November between 12.00pm until
4.30pm, where Dame Carol Ann Duffy will read from her acclaimed collections,
including ‘The World’s Wife’ and ‘The Bees’ including First World War poems
‘The Christmas truce’ and ‘The Last post’.
Alongside Carol’s readings, John Sampson will take everyone on a
virtuoso tour through musical highlights of the past 500 years played on a
fascinating collection of period and modern instruments.
The Oriel Singers, will be performing wartime songs and also premier a
song penned by Brenda Read-Brown and composed by Freya Ireland about the
connection of the 9th Earl of Coventry and Viscountess Deerhurst to the
creation of Pershore’s first WI.
Professor Maggie Andrews from Worcester University will be holding
‘Jamfest’ where visitors can learn more about the history of jam and the
Pershore plum which lots of jam tasting too.
The exhibition
Working with poets, Brenda
Read-Brown and Heather Wastie, Croome held workshops with schools, writers
groups, history groups and volunteers. They were tasked with researching a
female relative from the First World War to bring her story to life in a
one-hundred word poem.
Artist Su Blackwell was commissioned
to create a fitting way to exhibit the poems. Su has created a space for reflection, incorporating 188 saplings made from paper, each one containing a unique poem. These saplings form part of a larger exhibition inside the house.
Some of the people
who took part had never written poetry before, but every single poem is
beautifully written, moving and has an important story to tell.
Saturday, 12 November 2016
Plumlines Exhibition Opens at Croome Court Next Weekend.
At Croome Court in Worcestershire, setting up my new commission for Plumlines,
which opens to the public on Saturday 19th November, 2016.
For more information, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croome
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Upcoming Workshop - Paper-cut Concertina Christmas Cards (Book your place!)
I've created these samples in preparation for my Next Workshop on 3rd December at Charleston House in Lewes.
Come and learn the art of paper cutting, and make a 3-D Concertina Christmas Card,
that folds into an envelope.
Create your own unique design, and craft a collection of personalised cards to send out this Christmas.
All materials will be supplied on the day.
To join me on this half-day workshop on Saturday 3rd December 10am - 1pm,
please contact Charleston House on 01323 811626 or click on the link below
Workshop Price - £45.00
Concessions - £40.00
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Yesterday's light box workshop
Thanks to everyone who traveled far and wide to come to yesterday's workshop at Charleston House. Congratulations on your hard work in producing your light boxes.
The results were fantastic, bearing in mind, the short amount of time we had, and that some of the participants were complete novices, having never done any paper-cutting previously. It was really impressive.
The results were fantastic, bearing in mind, the short amount of time we had, and that some of the participants were complete novices, having never done any paper-cutting previously. It was really impressive.