Juliette Orton

  I have just finished teaching a 3-day 'Mixed media 3D Landscape' course at Missenden Abbey which was a great success and my wonderful students produced some amazing pieces. I started by showing my students examples of my work and how the landscape piece is built up using different layers and a variety of techniques and media. I then showed the ladies how to print to create textures and manipulate the materials in different ways to represent various types of landscapes.     Some amazing landscapes were created and students were then introduced to some other possibilities which they used to develop their ideas further.   Very well done Ladies, fantastic work! julietteodesigns.co.uk julietteorton.blogspot.co.uk facebook.com/julietteodesigns twitter.com/julietteorton 

I've just had the pleasure of teaching a weekend course at Missenden Abbey called 'Discover your Inner Artist' and judging from the wonderful work my students produced, I would have to say that they all definitely succeeded in finding theirs! This is the first time that I have taught at Missenden and it was an absolute delight I have to say, it was very well organised and both the food and location were a real bonus. There were 9 ladies in my group and after some brief introductions they got straight to work on the Friday evening with some printing.   On the Saturday, there was some designing and wirework development. Once everyone had been introduced to the tools and equipment they did some experimentation, refining their skills as they went. It was amazing to see how much they improved in the space of a few hours....... ........but not quite as amazing as all those ladies working in one room without talking (for some of the time anyway!), the...