Exhibitions, Projects & Workshops
Project/ Exhibition - Rivers4Life
Saturday 6th June to Sunday 6th September 2026
The Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, will be hosting our Rivers4Life summer exhibition showcasing the work of the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, and including art produced in the Rivers4Life workshops. The exhibition will be open to the public.
I have been involved with school and community groups that have produced artworks for this exhibition.
Workshop-
Nature- inspired Lino- Printing Workshop
Tuesday 26 May 2026 - 2 sessions
9am and 12.30pm or 1.30pm - 5pm
Create your own unique lino-print inspired by the swifts and house martins who call the Ampleforth valley home. This half day workshop will be led by lino-printing expert Sally Zaranko from Ashford Cottage Design and includes a delicious lunch in the oak-panelled Ampleforth Abbey Tea Room.
To book please visit Ampleforth Abbey
Workshop- Thoralby & District Village Hall
Lino printing workshop
Saturday 20th June 2026 or Wednesday 24th June 2026
10am - 4pm
£45 per ticket
To book please contact me via the form online.
A relaxed friendly workshop suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Workshop - River Lines Linocut Workshop with Sally Zaranko-
Tuesday 23 June 2026- Book now
A lino workshop using rivers and their natural history as inspiration.
Printmaker Sally from @ashfordcottagedesign will lead a day workshop on mark making which will result in lino cutting a simple river themed print .
This workshop is suitable for beginners or anyone who enjoys the beautiful process of mark making and wishes to have a lovely morning playing with textures and making a small lino print in the afternoon.
Bring along any locally foraged treasures or images that you want to work with . This will form the basis of your artwork which will form a postcard sized print .
All materials provided.
Wear suitable clothes in case you get inky!
Lunch included
10:30am - 3:30pm
This workshop is linked to the Rivers4Life exhibition with Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust
Thanks to National Lottery players.
Workshop- Watery Weavings-
Thursday 6 August 2026 - Book your free place now
A free family art workshop on rivers and wildlife.
After a short and informative walk, you will be invited to collect materials on your walk back; these could be feathers, leaves, grasses , twigs etc.
Back at the workshop these treasures will be woven into a watery themed piece .This will be a record of your walk and how you felt about it.
It is an opportunity to create a piece to take home in which all the family has participated
Morning session 10:30 - 12:30
Afternoon session 2pm - 4pm
Spaces are limited so please book ahead to avoid disappointment.
This workshop is linked to the Rivers4Life exhibition with Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust.
Thanks to National Lottery players
Exhibition- More than Moors
Yoredale, Bainbridge, DL8 3EL
16th January to 31st March 2026
9am - 4.30pm Mondays - Fridays
My lino cut work explores how I feel about and see the world around me. More than Moors is a collection of pieces which reflect both iconic species and iconic places. Both happen to be predominately moorland habitats. Two years spent following curlews or walking the Pennine Way, has informed what moorland means to me and how vital a space it is for all living things, including us humans.
Each lino piece is created from field observations and sketches and then worked up in the studio. Lino carving is a developmental and meditative process for me , where each mark has a meaning .Each block evolves as I carve . The lines I carve echo the lines on the landscape, tracks, hedges, walls, contours. They map lines of flight for the birds we see on the moors in summer who have traced lines across continents, habitats, seas, to get to here to breed and the fragility of these lines. The genetic lines of species and how some face extinction.
Moors, like any other habitats, cannot survive in isolation. They are part of a complex interrelationship with other places, habitats. Curlews need the coasts to overwinter and the moors to breed. Ring Ousels winter in southern Europe or North Africa, coming here to the moors, in March to breed. Both species are on the red list for conservation concern. I hope my work helps to highlight these places and the wonderful species which inhabit them and raise some awareness to help protect them.
Moors, the open spaces in which some national trails wander, are vital lifelines for humans to trace. Walking in nature improves physical and mental health, reconnects you with natural space and the elements and the seasons. More than Moors hopefully helps to connect people to places, nature and through that hopes its provokes a commitment to help preserve and look after them. Some pieces in the exhibition are offered at a discount price as shown for the duration of the exhibition.