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Season's Greetings - Blair Thomson

Season’s Greetings🎄

We hope you are keeping well and settling down for the winter break. Here is our Season’s Greetings card, an abstracted view (actually a few viewpoints brought together in one piece) made in the Dundee Botanical Gardens using pens, ink and pencil on calligraphy board.… Read More »Season’s Greetings🎄

Meeting Seal Engravers and Zen Teachers in Japan – exploring Tenkoku

In December 2022 and January 2023 Blair enjoyed a fascinating visit to Japan as part of a project kindly funded by the GB Sasakawa Foundation. He was fortunate to be able to meet Tenkoku Seal Engraving as well as as Zen masters and teachers and… Read More »Meeting Seal Engravers and Zen Teachers in Japan – exploring Tenkoku

Season's Greetings 2022

Season’s Greetings ❄

We hope you are keeping cosy and well and settling down for the winter holidays. Here is our Season’s Greetings card, an aerial inspired one of Glasgow this year! Please see colourful images from our groups and community events below, it is great to look… Read More »Season’s Greetings ❄

Origami Tiger

Happy New Tiger Year

Happy New Year of the Tiger, grrr! Hope you are well and easing into the New Year. All the very best wishes for a peaceful and healthy 2022 As our friends in Japan celebrate the determination and courage of the new Tiger year, let’s keep… Read More »Happy New Tiger Year

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

Season’s Greetings 🎄

We hope you are keeping cosy and well and becoming quieter for the winter holidays. Here is our Season’s Greetings card, a jazzy one this year! Many thanks for all your participation and kind support this year and we look forward to catch up with… Read More »Season’s Greetings 🎄

Anime Drawing - Relax & Doodle

Join our free December anime event

Anime Drawing – Relax & Doodle Draw your favourite characters from anime and manga at our friendly online group! Many people would like to doodle anime and manga characters and share their enthusiasm with others but find them difficult to draw and don’t know where… Read More »Join our free December anime event

Winter clarity and creative exploration in Japan

Winter clarity and creative exploration in Japan

In January Blair visited Japan as part of a project kindly funded by the GB Sasakawa Foundation. He had an exciting packed schedule learning about various Shodo calligraphy styles of Japanese calligraphy with Shodo masters in Tokyo, and investigating mindful meditation practices with different teachers… Read More »Winter clarity and creative exploration in Japan

Maryhill Art Group Autumn - Winter 2018 flyer

Funding for Maryhill Art Group awarded by Glasgow CAN

We are delighted to let you know we have received funding from Glasgow Connected Arts Network (Glasgow CAN) for our community group in The Maryhill HUB to take us to the end of March 2019. The next Maryhill Art Group will be inspired by nature,… Read More »Funding for Maryhill Art Group awarded by Glasgow CAN

Thursday art groups rescheduled for this week

Hi folks, just to let you know that our Glasgow groups last Thursday which were cancelled due to the icy Siberian snowfall have been rescheduled for this Thursday instead, the 8th of March, at the same times. We have our North United Communities after school… Read More »Thursday art groups rescheduled for this week