CRUISES ART AND CRAFT
Debbie has worked as an artist and crafts person for the last 20+ years, following previous careers in nursing and health, a number of years as a specialist bookseller including 'green' and environmental subjects, and an organic smallholder. Creativity and learning are a constant in her life. She is currently enrolled on a p/t online MA degree researching ideas about 'environment' and 'culture' in today's world.
Below are cruises and deep ocean voyages, listed most recent first, on which she has provided art and craft classes, and with a selection of images.
Astor, Cruise and Maritime Voyages, Tilbury UK via Panama Canal to Fremantle Australia, 15 Oct-8 Dec 2017
Below are some photos from the 30+ craft classes held during the 54 night voyage.
Debbie has worked as an artist and crafts person for the last 20+ years, following previous careers in nursing and health, a number of years as a specialist bookseller including 'green' and environmental subjects, and an organic smallholder. Creativity and learning are a constant in her life. She is currently enrolled on a p/t online MA degree researching ideas about 'environment' and 'culture' in today's world.
She
has English and Western Australian heritage. She has travelled
in Europe, North and Central America, and Australasia. In recent years she has
provided arts and crafts classes on small traditional cruise ships and
enjoyed giving the opportunity to others to discover something of their own creativity and response to countries, peoples, environments and landscapes visited. Debbie is particularly interested in the distinctive local ways of life and cultures, natural environments and ecologies of land and ocean, and local arts and crafts and their designs and patterns.
Her classes are varied craft using paper, card, and other supplementary materials, which by virtue of being paper-based are largely sustainably sourced/recycled/recyclable. The classes are based around themes of reconnecting and participating in our natural world and its cultures, such as the local wildlife/sealife/landscape/ocean, folk/native art patterns and designs. The classes give guests the opportunity to put their experiences of the cruise and ports/countries visited into small pieces of art and craft which become a personal record and memory of their holiday. Each class begins with a few minutes of sociable introduction allowing people to begin to get to know each other.
Columbus, CMV, Singapore to Tilbury UK, 3 April 2020 - 5 May 2020, cancelled due to pandemic.
Astor, CMV, Tasmania Adventure, 17 - 25 Feb 2018, Adelaide Melbourne and Tasmania
Astor, Cruise and Maritime Voyages, Tilbury UK via Panama Canal to Fremantle Australia, 15 Oct-8 Dec 2017
Below are some photos from the 30+ craft classes held during the 54 night voyage.
Magellan, CMV, Scottish Islands and Faroes, 15-22 July 2017
'Scottish Islands Inspired Greetings Card'
A greetings card or two as souvenirs and gifts. The handmade cards featured traditional
Fair Isle knitting designs. There was an historical handout, and card-making handout. This class used colour prints from a book of hand-drawn full colour knitting charts published in 2016 by the Shetland Guild of Spinners, Weavers, Knitters and Dyers. Following emails, they were pleased to make the book's design images available to the class.
The cruise map class gave the opportunity to cut out a pre-printed map outline, attach to a coloured back-paper, discover the location of the ports of call!, and decorate with sea life. Maps could be put on the cabin wall, and added to with route sailed, notes and leaflet cuttings as the cruise progressed.
Astor, CMV, Fremantle Australia via South Africa to Tilbury UK, 12 March-23 April 2017
Below are images of a selection of the classes. The handmade cards used printed papers of traditional African fabric designs, along with other decorative papers and seed bead and sequin embellishments.
Two classes involved making small woven baskets using recycled ship 'daily programmes' and news sheets. These used the same weaving as many of the natural fibre baskets that we saw in the markets on Mauritius, Reunion, and in Cape Town.
The guests' various craft making were displayed for several days mid voyage, in one of the Promenade Deck shop display cabinets. This was much enjoyed and commented on. The display included handmade notebooks, nautical signalling flags, party hats, Mauritius and Reunion greetings cards, maps of the voyage, 3D paper alphabet, tapestry Zulu bead designs, concertina rosettes and butterflies, Origami boxes, and more!
The people attending the craft classes contributed 'decoration' to two afternoon tea events - the 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party' with a row of 'teapots' strung across the Show Lounge, and the 'Queen's Birthday' afternoon tea, with red/white/blue 'flowers' also strung across the Show Lounge.
(Apologies for the poor quality of some of the photos).
Astor, CMV, Fremantle Bali round trip, 16-26 January 2017
One of the several craft classes offered:
'Indigo Greetings Cards'
Indigo is a dye used traditionally in Bali and many other world cultures. This class crafted greetings cards showing traditional indigo textile prints with added decorations and embellishments.
Astor, Cruise and Maritime Voyages, Tilbury UK via Panama Canal to Fremantle Australia, 16 Oct - 9 Dec 2016
A selection of some of the classes, including French Polynesian designs and plaiting/weaving, Origami, and more.