The start of 2023 also brought me the unexpected joyful but humbling experience of being selected to join the Zentangle.com’s CZT Family Tree. I was partly focussing on my Community Wall Tangling work and it was great to read a few CZTs thinking they might try the same thing local to them. If you want… Continue reading CZT Family Tree
As people from all over the world expand the technique, newly created tangle patterns are given different and unusual names. Additionally a whole vocabulary of terms and techniques have been born through Zentangle, or adapted with a Zentangle context. So to help, I have put together a comprehensive glossary of tangling terms on my website,… Continue reading Glossary, Glossar, Glossaire, Woordenijst
Recently both in an online forum and an email direct to me, I was asked about the copyright of patterns. So I thought just penning my thoughts here might be an idea. A tangle is a pattern that has been deconstructed (by someone) and it is let out in the world for others to use… Continue reading Copyright and Original
The second time round for my Mindfulness Month on YouTube – a free play list of monthly Prompts The second time round for my Mindfulness Month on YouTube – a free play list of monthly prompts – a set of Mindful Month of tangling videos on my channel on YouTube, last year we did a… Continue reading Month Done!
This year I teamed up with Debbie New, another CZT based in Singapore, to work on a monthly challenge based on drawing tiny fragments for the duration of January. This is a 31-day journey, created with four Fragment shapes – the Square, Round, Triangle and Seed. This prompt list will let you play with a… Continue reading A Fragment of Your Imagination 2023
In October I headed off visiting friends and family. First I caught up with the tangling team of 7F5R in Singapore – and how about this beautiful artwork as a welcome present! It was the start of a fabulous and busy weekend of sightseeing, tangling, studio visit, art shop stash shopping, a superb batik textile… Continue reading Tangles, Tiles and Friends
Have you ever wanted to draw on the wall? TangleatioNZ and Life in Vacant Spaces have joined together for a creative community project over five days in September, to ‘tangle’ some patterns on the wall at LiVS’s site in Waltham. So….. If you are a beginner or just starting out, I will be on site to guide… Continue reading Wall Tangling in Christchurch
Fantastic fun on a large scale – Anne Toth, Beate Winkler and Ildica Boyd – all got together for this combined works of wall tangling in Auckland.
I’m now able to supply a range of genuine Zentangle® tiles and other products, along with a complementary range of Sakura pens online with delivery throughout New Zealand. Tiles are available in a range of bundle sizes (or indeed individually), although if you have other requirements, please get in touch with me, and I’ll be… Continue reading Zentangle Supplies in NZ!
I am offering a couple of Zentangle taster sessions – a two hour session for you to have a brief’ have a go and see what this is all about – choose one of two sessions on offer – either Friday 4th August – 12 – 2pm or Thursday 10th August 6.30-8.30pm . You’ll have… Continue reading Zentangle Method – a wee ‘Taster’
