A gentle peaceful creative space where children can explore their own creativity. An Aladdin's cave of wonder .Beautiful varied art supplies to combine with recycled materials. Professional unobtrusive support. Beautifully prepped projects designed to scaffold and give a helping hand to those who might initialy struggle to get going. Set in my studio there are lots of inspirational books too. A place where adults can tap back into their inner child and wonder. Space to work large scale and collaboratively on bigger projects. Themed arty parties also are an option .

Project Summary: A workshop held at the Stockport Art Gallery in conjunction with Tracy's "Eye Candy For The Soul" show. Re-using old broken toys to create something new, these fantastic pieces were created by a very enthusiastic group of children, parents and grandparents.

They were exhibited alongside Tracy's "Big Friendly Robot" in her "Eye Candy For The Soul" show and also went on tour with "Big Friendly Robot" to a few local libraries. The pieces brought back memories to children and adults, causing conversation, sharing memories of childhood but also bringing attention to the ongoing use of plastics to make what become useless throw-away items.

Project Summary: After looking at posters and pictures of various mini-beasts using magnifying glasses, the children at All Saints school in Marple were asked to design their own unique mini-beast that would also become part of a collaborative mural.

Project Summary: Using chalk or oil pastels on white or black paper, children age 4 and 5 years old created an independent spiral snail design referencing the school's giant African pet snail, Susan, and recurring spiral shapes found in Nature. The pieces were then mounted and displayed all together for an eye-catching display.

A collaborative project inviting the children to feel free to express themselves. We provided huge pieces of white paper on the tables.

Starting with big brushes and black ink . We asked them to draw continuous wiggly lines moving around the table their lines crossing over one another. They loved doing this.

Then we provided them with all kinds of art materials to try out in a very free and non intimidating way. Filling in the shapes , smudging, scribbling, painting colours Allowing them to get messy no limits.

They then collaged painted papers on top building up lots of layers of texture and colour.

One child exclaimed with great excitement how Mad it all was and so they added the word to the painting as a final touch. The children absolutely loved doing this , they were so excited and the sound in the room was joyful. They then all created paper bag masks and we went outside in the street and pinned up the Mad painting . Great fun .