I have added some framed textile collages to my online textile shop
They can be seen by clicking on the following link:
http://www.sharpart.co.uk/shop/products-page/textiles/
You will also be able to see my new range of heart shaped textile cards.
I hope that you like the work.
James
I held my Art Journaling Page Creation course at Creative Recycling on Sunday and some great work was produced by the attendees.
Suzanne Davies and Sophie Uglow show their pages inspired by Lynne Perrella:
Jane Hughes shows her work inspired by Teesha Moore:
Sophie shows her Teesha pages:
Suzanne shows her Teesha page:
I am giving three more courses at Creative Recycling in February and March. For full details go to upcoming events:
http://sharpart.co.uk/category/upcoming-events/
Have you visited my online shop yet? There are lots of textiles and paintings available for you to buy online:
http://www.sharpart.co.uk/shop/
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I have added Aprons, Shoulder bags and Stuff Stashes to my online textile shop. These items are individual works of art and may be purchased online. I will post your selections to you.
You can go straight to my online textile shop by clicking the link below:
http://www.sharpart.co.uk/shop/products-page/textiles/
I hope that you find some items that you like.
James
I have added some more flower paintings to my online shop. The following link will take you direct to the flora shop:
http://www.sharpart.co.uk/shop/products-page/flora/
I hope that you find something there that you like.
I have a few of my textile covered 2012 diaries left and have put them on sale in my online shop. Originally for sale at £25 I have reduced them to just £9!
You can find them in the shop category Art Journals. If you click on the following link it will take you straight there:
I am pleased to announce that my online shop is now open. You can now select items and collect them in your basket and pay online through paypal or a credit card. The items will then be posted to you.
There are seven individual shops by art and craft category and you just click on the category to view the available items. If you click on any of the pictures of individual artwork it will enlarge to enable you to inspect the item more closely. Another click will take you back to the shop.
Visit the shop by clicking on the following link:
http://www.sharpart.co.uk/shop/
I hope that you will add this link to your favourites and visit the shop regularly.
Happy shopping,
James
I am giving three courses over the coming weeks at Creative Recycling , 40 Beech Road , Chorlton. There are still a few vacancies on each course:
Sunday 5 February- Art Journaling with Rubber Stamps. Our sponsor for this course, Ma Vinci’s Requiry, has provided a set of rubber stamps for each attendee to keep.
Sunday 26 February- Printing on textiles and textile collage.
Sunday 25 March- Book making using recycled materials
I hope that you will be able to join me on one or more of these fun events.
Further details of each course is given in Upcoming Events on my website blog.
All courses should be booked direct with:
Creative Recycling, 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
Email:creativerecycling@mac.com
On this course you will be taken through all the steps necessary to make your own book utilising a range of recycled materials including envelopes and textiles. At the end of the course you will take home your own book that you will have made and decorated yourself.
This course is proving very popular and I suggest that you book early to avoid disappointment. Places should be booked direct with:
Creative Recycling, 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
Email:creativerecycling@mac.com
My packs of collage pieces are the ideal stocking stuffer for your arts and crafts friends and relatives. I can provide them in either paper or textile form. There are approximately fifty pieces in each pack. The paper are £4 a pack and the textile are £5 a pack.
I can supply them in the following categories:
I will be happy to post them to you in good time for Christmas. Email me your requirements. I can take a cheque or , if more convenient, a credit or debit card.
I will also be happy to send you any of my other products if you would like me to.
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk239xa
My 2012 diary has the following specifications:
-A5 size
-Heavy cloth fully lined slip cover
-Storage for papers inside slip cover
-Monthly page tags
The diaries are £25 each and can be ordered from the address below.
If you would like any customised embellishment (eg initials) I will be happy to incorporate them for you.
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk23 9xa
01298 70237
On Sunday 26 February I will be giving a class on Textile Printing. You will print your own textiles using rubber stamps and acrylic paints and then assemble them into a collage. The collage will then be sewn and mounted onto a wall hanging which you will be able to take home with you.
The course will take place at Creative Recycling, 40 beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL.
Places must be booked direct with Creative Recycling:
Creative Recycling, 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
Email:creativerecycling@mac
I will be giving an Art Journaling course using Rubber Stamps on Sunday 5 February. You will be taken through a range of techniques using different papers and backgrounds and will compile your own journal during the day. We will also use an enormous variety of stamps from my own collection. At the end of the course you will take home your own journal featuring the techniques you will have learned.
This course is generously being sponsored by Ma Vinci and attendees will receive some free rubber stamps that she has donated. See my blog under Other Artists’ Stuff for more details of Ma Vinci and details of her website.
Places should be booked direct with:
Creative Recycling, 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
Email:creativerecycling@mac.com
Pat Berry is devoted to greyhounds and adopts them after their racing days are over. She currently has Jule and Herman under her care. Last winter I made them some coats to protect against the winter cold of Chicago. More recently Pat asked me to make a Halloween coat for Jule:
Herman is much too shy to go out in such garb but his picture is often to be seen on Anne Leuck-Feldhouse’s website (see my blog under Other Artists Stuff) following a particularly successful pet portrait she completed last year.
If you have any ideas for an unusual product from textiles let me know and I will try to come up with some suggestions.
I ran my printing on textiles course last Sunday at Creative Recycling, Beech Road, Chorlton. Some excellent work was produced but some attendees were too shy to have their picture taken! However, Kayli Rogers wasn’t and here she is with her wall hanging:
And here is me with mine:
I shall be giving this course again at Creative Recycling on Sunday 26 February 2012. Places should be booked direct with the gallery:
Creative Recycling, 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
Email:creativerecycling@mac.com
I have been commisioned to make a variety of special journals this year. Examples of the Brighton, French, Spanish and City of Manchester ones are shown below:
I can supply any of the above if you would like one or alternatively can design a specific one for you if you would prefer.
I have also created a Much Wenlock Olympic Journal, see below:
I will be pleased to supply you with any of the above and you can order by email, post or telephone:
I ran my Art Journaling – Page Creation course again at Beech Road last Sunday and some excellent artwork was produced. We worked on some ideas developed by Lynne Perrella and Teesha Moore and used a range of recycled materials during the day.
Anna Marsland shows her work:
Matt Jones shows his work:
These are my Teesha Moore style pages:
Finally, we bound our signatures in a hard cover which I had decorated in textiles with one of my new rubber stamps:
I will be running the course again in the New Year and will include it in my blog under upcoming events as soon as I have firm dates.
I have redesigned my Stuff Stash to bring it in line with my current work. It is ideal for keeping a whole range of items together in one place and can be hung on the back of a door or on a wall in its own right. It has nine usable pockets and two clips. Overall it measures 30″ x 20″.
The example above is decorated with pocket labels and my new sharpart ladies stamps but I can produce the Stuff Stash with or without decoration and labels to your own specifications.
If you would like to have your own Stuff Stash I will be pleased to discuss its design with you. I can be contacted on any of the media below:
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk23 9xa
01298 70237
I have been working with Estelle Smith this year on producing my own range of sharpart stamps featuring my line drawings of female heads. I featured these in a sharpart news blog in August. This activity is, however, a new one for Estelle who has developed her own range of stamps over a number of years. They are normally based on vintage photographs often with a hint of humour. I have collected and enjoyed many 0f them over the years incorporating them into my art journals. She trades as the Stampsmith.
Particular favourites of mine are the two images of Serena, see below:
The images are taken from photographs and so should be used with well inked stamp pads and imprinted on shiny paper for best results. This next one is Maxine:
This one is entitled Bling:
And finally this is Coffee Gal:
Go to Estelle’s website www.stampsmith.net to see all of these images and many more. You will also see a selection of art works incorporating the stamps.
If you want to buy any of the unmounted rubber images from Estelle but do not fancy mounting them yourself get in touch with me and we can work something out.
I can be contacted on any of the media below:
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk23 9xa
01298 70237
The producers of rubber stamps are some of the unsung heroes in the alternative art world. I don’t mean the type that are massed produced and sold in Michaels in the USA or Hobbycraft in the UK but rather the specialist suppliers who create their own unique designs and sell them privately, usually as unmounted rubber.
Robin Pagliasotti is one such supplier. She trades as Ma Vinci and I have been buying alphabets, numbers and her quirky Mona Lisa images for several years.
When I was tempted recently by her sale bin into another purchase she kindly offered to sponsor my Fall (Autumn) Art Journaling classes by supplying several sets of rubber for the participants to practise with. I have been busy mounting these so that they are ready for use.
The following is an example of a full sheet of unmounted rubber featuring her trademark Mona Lisa designs.
Her website is well worth a visit and has many pages of stamps that cannot be purchased anywhere else. If you don’t fancy mounting the rubber yourself then contact me and we can work something out. Her website is:
I can be contacted on any of the media below:
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk23 9xa
01298 70237
Katie and Sophie Thompson with boy friend Dave run a cafe called Andy’s Kitchen in Hereford. I recently made a set of Andy’s Aprons for them and here they are wearing them:
They have also agreed to sell some of my flora paintings in the cafe and they can be seen on the wall behind them.
I am happy to take commissions for aprons or indeed any of my other textile products. I can be contacted on any of the media below:
james sharp
broad lee house
combs
high peak
sk23 9xa
01298 70237
sharpart 12- Monica 2 1/4″ x 1 3/4″ £5
I ran my Art Journaling – Page Creation course again at Beech Road on Sunday and we had a very creative and productive day. The day uses ideas developed by Lynne Perrella and Teesha Moore as a starting point for the artist to create pages of her own. The standard of art produced was very high and the following are examples:
Christine Lomas with her vintage portraits, Lynne Perrella inspired page:
Fiona Tuffley with her vintage portraits page:
and with one of her Teesha Moore inspired pages:
Laura Tuffley with her Teesha page:
Cindy Styles with her vintage portraits page:
Laura Monaghan with two Teesha pages:
and with her vintage portraits:
I couldn’t resist incorporating a photo of Amy in my pages:
We concluded by binding our work in a textile cover:
I shall be running the course again at Creative Recycling in Chorlton on Sunday 2 October. Bookings should be made direct with Creative Recycling:
0161 881 4422
I gave my textile printing course on Sunday in which we incorporate the printed textiles into a collage and then assemble the collage into a wall hanging. The course went well and we all completed our projects:
Camilla Thomas with her wall hanging.
Sheila Birch opted to mount her collage at an interesting angle.
I made my version in line with my usual style.
I shall be running the course again at Creative Recycling in Chorlton on Sunday 30 October. Bookings should be made direct with Creative Recycling:
0161 881 4422
I have been working on my range of textile books recently and it now incorporates:
Textile Collage Book:
The Textile Collage book is hard bound with a fabric cover. It has fourteen pages of textile collages with printed fabric words and images. It comes in three page sizes: small £25($40), medium £35($55) and large £45($70).
Denim Pocket Journal:
The Denim Pocket Journal is hard bound with a fabric cover. It has fourteen pages with usable pockets. It is ideal for storing notes, bills, tickets and other papers. It is available at £45($70).
Textile Faces:
The Textile Faces book is hard bound with a fabric cover. It has fourteen pages of textile collages with printed faces. It comes in three page sizes: small £25($40), medium £35($55) and large £45($70).
Textile Journal:
The Textile Journal is hard bound with a textile cover. The pages, recycled envelopes, have textile edges and random textile collage but have space left on each page to allow the owner to make his own written journal entries. It comes in the large size at £35($50).
Textile Images:
The Textile Images Book is hard bound with a textile cover. It has multiple images on each page. It comes in the large size at £45($70).
Textile Covers:
My Textile Covers are suitable for hard or paperback books. They come with a plain white sketch book inside. This may be used or replaced with the book of your choice. Textile covers are available at £15($25).
All of the above textile books can be obtained from me at:
Broad lee House
Combs
High Peak
SK23 9XA
01298 70237
I can customise any of my standard product range for you whether it be for your own use or for a gift. The following are examples of customised items:
Apron made for Creative recycling:
Laptop bag made for Glennis Andrews:
Shoulder Bag made for Creative Recycling:
French Journal made for an American customer whose daughter was traveling to Europe:
Wall hanging for the Eco Fashion Show:
Wall hanging for an American event:
Handbag for Rosemary Sharp:
I will be happy to discuss any project that you have in mind. Prices will depend on the compexity of the artwork but are always reasonable. Contact me in the first instance by email at: tiksha@btinternet.com
The Beech Road Festival was an enormous success with thousands of visitors attending in glorious sunshine. I have a few T-shirts and baseball hats left over if anyone would like a souvenir of this event or just a quirky fashion item!
Both T-shirt and Cap are £10 each. They can be ordered from me at tiksha@btinternet.com
Creative Recycling is at 40 Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 9EL
0161 881 4422
www.40beechroad.co.uk
We started collecting works by Corneille in the late nineties. Cats feature regulary in his art which was a natural draw but his strong use of juxtaposed colour was an additional appeal. I am not aware of a website dedicated to his art but there is plenty available to view on the web. Here are a few examples of his work:
Lynne Perrella’s book “Artist’s Journals and Sketchbooks” has been the greatest influence over my art in recent years. It covers a huge range of techniques and every page is inspirational. I take it with me whenever I go on a long train journey to get new ideas and lubricate the creative juices. Her website shows a large range of her work and I recommend regular visits to inspire your journaling and other artistic endeavours:/www.lkperrella.com
Here are some examples of her collage artwork:
Those of you who have attended any of my courses will have heard me speak of my admiration for the work of Teesha Moore and the influence she has had on my peronal art journaling style. Her website is a riot of colour and is a great source of inspiration in itself. I strongly recommend a visit: www.teeshamoore.com
Here are some examples of her work:
Fiona and Glennis at Creative Recycling have made an urban garden on a concrete base. It attracts many visitors all year round and as well as providing an unexpected oasis in downtown Chorlton it also showcases a whole range of interesting artifacts.
They have decided to designate 2011 as the Year of the Garden and I have made a large wall hanging to commemorate this:
This measures 60″ x 30″ and is currently on display in the Gallery. I have made two smaller sizes for those who would like to have their own hanging:
This one is 24″ x 16″ and is available at £45.
I have also produced an ever smaller verson which is 16″ x 10″ and is available at £30:
I have also created some fun items on the same theme:
Aprons at £25:
Shoulder Bags at £25
T-shirts at £10:
Baseball Caps at £10:
All of the above items may be ordered from me at:
Broad lee House, Combs, High Peak, SK239XA
01298 70237
Creative Recycling is at 40 Beech Road Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EL
