Art at the Heart….
As well as making glass art work, and teaching and helping others to learn about and create fabulous glass goodies, I also do a fair amount of workshops in schools, community events, day centres and recently, nursing homes.
Some days I’ve been visiting a local care home; a few times I was working one-to-one with a resident living with dementia, others I’ve been working with a group with varying physical abilities, eyesight, hearing, communication difficulties and so on.
I’ve also been working with a local friendship group that runs with the aim to reach out to isolated over 50s.
It’s can be quite a challenge, as the sessions are quite short, so we’re quite limited with what we can do.
But with a bit (a lot!) of careful preparation and forethought, all of the participants have been making some fun and lovely art. So it’s dreary, wet Friday evening right now, so I am going to just post a few images of the lovely work they’ve been creating.
Mosaic birds for the nursing home garden, still to be grouted.
It wouldn’t be one of my workshops without the odd glass lantern!
Playing with the laser cutter to create this funky felt flowers!
