Month: July 2014

  • Summer holiday craft workshops for kids

    Summer holiday craft workshops for kids

    Ruth Singer Studio is now running workshops and clubs for children aged 6+ including teenagers. Summer holiday activities start at the end of July on Wednesday afternoons. We’ve also got after school clubs starting in October. Summer holiday workshops on on Wednesday afternoons, details below. £10 per child per session. Children must be accompanied by an adult,…

  • Travelling Tool Shed

    Travelling Tool Shed

    Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…

  • Maidens’ Garlands collaboration with Jan Garside

    Maidens’ Garlands collaboration with Jan Garside

    EDIT – In fact, this won’t be displayed. There was a miscommunication with the gallery & they didn’t install it properly. So I took it away again. I’ll put it up in the studio soon. My collaborative work with Jan Garside will be exhibited again this month.  

  • Petal Dye

    Petal Dye

    Dyeing fabric with petals (and some leaves) has to be one of the easiest and most satisfying way of putting natural colour onto cloth. It is ridiculously simple & effective, particularly on silk. I first tried it last year, after reading about it online, seeing what Hannah Lamb was doing with plant bundle  (and in India…