ArtyBird Staff

Kate Horner - E-Mail Me! - View My Gallery

Kate Horner is a practising artist with a B.Sc. (Hons) Textile Design (Woven Structures) and a M.A. in Design Studies (Textiles). Kate has taught in Secondary School and Further Education for many years and is a thoughtful educationalist. Her artwork explores many forms of textiles, centred on felt making. Her sketchbooks are vital to the work she makes and these are extended and explored through the computer. Her themes are about herself and her relationship with people and places. This focuses on her family and friends, and their environmental and peace work. She has exhibited nationally.

Kate delivers the attended, hybrid and on-line Feltmaking and Creative Computing courses.

Rosie Jackson - E-Mail Me! - View My Gallery

Rosie Jackson is a qualified tutor with a City and Guilds Diploma in Embroidery and an HND in Business Studies. She has many years experience in a variety of crafts and is a practising textile and mixed media artist using the English landscape for most of her inspiration. Further studies have come from ‘Nostalgia’ and the memories of her childhood. As well as being an artist Rosie has experience of the business side of textiles. She has successfully managed a fabric shop and has been self employed, running her own dressmaking and soft furnishing business for many years.

Rosie delivers the attended Embroidery, Fashion and Mixed Media courses.

Maggy Lightfoot - View My Gallery

Maggy Lightfoot runs a company importing wool fibre from Norway. She has successfully completed her Level 2, Level 3 certificate and Diploma in feltmaking. She internally verifies courses in feltmaking for ArtyBird and is now part of the teaching team.

Alison Seddon - E-Mail Me!

I am an ex pat Geordie and have been living in Carnforth since 2005. I have worked in insurance for 20 years, I decided that I would use my training in "nit picking" and "attention to detail" to my own ends. I have set up my own Girl Friday enterprise, providing office based tasks on a "by the hour" basis and was delighted when I was asked to become an Artybird, although I’m more of a Clartybird than an Arty one!