

Art Camp and the Melbourne Centre, York
One of the thing I love about summer are all the great art camps that pop up for kids. One such camp is Greg McGee’s (of According to McGee) Art Camp that he runs from the Melbourne Centre in York. On the 28th July I was delighted to be invited to run a session and even more delighted that I could pick what I was going to do with the twenty or so children that we booked in that day. I picked a couple of my favourite workshops; clay sculpture and textile collage. I always use


Working with NCS The Challenge in Leeds
This summer has been is the first time that I’ve worked with NCS The Challenge. I joined their seasonal staff team as an Enterprise skills practitioner. It’s been a fair few years since I’ve taught anything to do with enterprise and I’d hoped to teach art, but alas, there was no art category to select in Yorkshire. So off I toddled to Leeds on my first day with a notebook full of ideas about how to try and convince 15-17 year olds that it could be just as fun to spend three d