I am pleased to announce that Garstang and District Arts Centre will be hosting my first solo exhibition from the 4th June- 1st July 2023! I will be having a preview event on the 4th June at 2pm at Garstang Arts Centre and would love for you to attend where you can meet the artist,… Continue reading Solo Exhibition 2023
Get your free copy at any Lancashire, Blackpool or Blackburn library! Lancashire Stories: illustrated by me! Rachel Crawshaw Last night I spoke on a panel for one of the 5 Lancashire Stories launch events. The event I attended was at the beautiful Burnley Library, in the magically decorated children's library. I was on the panel… Continue reading Lancashire Stories Launch Event
Hi there! Today I had great fun running an all-day, Christmas themed, sketchbook making workshop for the fabulous Blackburn Artists' Society. In today's workshop, I showed the Blackburn Artists how to make three different sketchbooks using only one sheet of paper in each. We made the pages of the books using different paper folding techniques… Continue reading Christmas themed sketchbook Workshop!
https://youtu.be/4eueyEH8oto You can check out my latest You tube video above in which I show you the whole process on how I painted these Autumnal Apples! I went on a lovely walk this morning just as the sun was rising and took some great photos of the gorgeous mist over the valley, and the sunlight… Continue reading Painting Autumn Apples
It's official, September has arrived and I am here for it! Autumn is my favourite time of year. I love the changing leaves, the sunlight, acorns and pine cones, mushrooms and toadstools, crunching through dried leaves, wearing jumpers and lighting candles in the home again. Conkers- on my morning walk In April I started morning… Continue reading Welcoming Autumn
Over on Mushroom Moon Designs on Etsy I have been busy creating several new Digital products for use in junk journalling, scrapbooking and other paper crafts. First up we have several Christmas themed kits all ready for you to start your Christmas crafting! Some may think it too early to even begin thinking about Christmas,… Continue reading New Digital kits!
Hi everyone! Today I have released a BRAND NEW digital Junk journal kit over on my Etsy Shop! This New Abstract Digital Junk Journal kit consists of 4 sheets of lined and unlined Landscape oriented papers, 4 portrait-oriented papers, Faux stamps, faux postcard, 2 pocket designs, 2 sheets of labels in two designs and a… Continue reading New Digital Kit Release!
Hi everyone, hope you all had a good 🐣 Easter! In amongst the chocolate egg eating I have been working hard on making two new pieces of work for an upcoming exhibition. 23rd April- 14th May three of my pieces will be exhibited amongst the work of many other talented artists in the Blackburn Artist's… Continue reading Upcoming exhibition at Blackburn Cathedral
I really enjoyed making the assemblages with photographs from my family history collection, (if you missed this post you can find it HERE ) so I thought I'd have a break from editing digital images for the Lancashire stories project (find out more HERE) and have another play and experiment with collage, textiles, ink, paint… Continue reading A few more little experiments
Today I am sharing with you a recent body of work I created which consists of several mixed medium assemblages. Assemblage is art that is made by assembling disparate elements – often everyday objects – scavenged by the artist or bought speciallyhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/assemblage These pieces were created using various mediums- collage, alcohol inks, acrylic paints, textiles… Continue reading Mixed medium assemblages
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