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Week one of Developing Drawing and Painting Skills! I always like to start with some continuous line drawings! @weaadulted.bsky.social

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This evening creativity for calm learners explore patterns! Join me for Creativity for Calm: Collage in June! www.wea.org.uk/courses/arts... @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Come and see me this weekend at Rowhedge Art Trail. You'll find me and my words at number 2, along with david_piercy_artist 10th and 11th June!

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hi A little look at a little face! 📅 Save the Date! The 2025 Rowhedge Art Trail is back on 10 & 11 May 🎨✨ #RowhedgeArtTrail #SaveTheDate #CommunityArt #SupportLocalArtists #Studio #ArtStudio #TapeArt #NewArt #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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SPACE: Peer-to-Peer Next sessions: Thur 8th (In person, 12-2) peer support, feedback, networking open to all creatives, free to attend online on GoogleMeets, DM for link In person, 37 Queen St, Colchester

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Less than a week to go until this year's #RowhedgeArtTrail You can find me at number 2 on the trail with David Piercy. 📅 Save the Date! The 2025 Rowhedge Art Trail is back on 10 & 11 May 🎨✨ #RowhedgeArtTrail #SaveTheDate #CommunityArt #SupportLocalArtists #ArtLovers

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We are... On time... Well... Doing.... #AutomaticWriting #SlowArt #TextAsImage #AcrylicOnPaper #ArtistAtWork #Process #Text #TextArt #ThickPaint #WhitePaint #Acrylic #OnTime #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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Each Sunday we will spotlight an area of research recently published in JVET and open the conversation to you. Share your thoughts on our spotlight, network, and connect with the community. This week we ask what can VET organisations learn from neo-institutional theory? #SpotlightSundays #JVET

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Holding it all together. #Art #3D #Sculpture #Metal #Wire #InsideArt #Studio #ArtStudio #WorkInProgress #BTS #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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Five. How is it May? #Time #Number #Numbers #Line #LineDrawing #Pen #HandRendered #sketchbook #Art #Digital #DigitalDrawing #DigitalArt #Five #May #Time #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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Each Thursday we will be digging into the JVET archive. This week we share ‘The residental secondary technical school’ by G.A.F. Clarke (1950). Vol 2. Issue 4. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #ThrowbackThursdays #JVET

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SPACE: Peer-to-Peer Next sessions: Thur 8th (In person, 12-2) peer support, feedback, networking open to all creatives, free to attend online on GoogleMeets, DM for link In person, 37 Queen St, Colchester

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This afternoon creativity for calm learners played with paper! @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Ready for #RowhedgeArtTrail? I am! (Mostly!) You can find me at number 2 on the trail with David Piercy. 📅 Save the Date! The 2025 Rowhedge Art Trail is back on 10 & 11 May 🎨✨ #RowhedgeArtTrail #SaveTheDate #CommunityArt #SupportLocalArtists #ArtLovers

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What are you doing? #Text #TextArt #FineArt #Paint #AcrylicPaint #BlackAndWhite #BlackPaint #WhitePaint #LargeScale #Studio #artStudio #WorkInProgress #TextConext #HandRendered #WhatArtYouDoing #AbbieCairns #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist

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SPACE: Peer-to-Peer Next sessions: Mon 28th (Online, 7-8.30) peer support, feedback, networking open to all creatives, free to attend online on GoogleMeets, DM for link In person, 37 Queen St, Colchester

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🎨 Appreciate local art with me in Colchester! Join my 5-week WEA course exploring the work of James Dodds, Aline Gowen, Ian Hay, Wyndham Lloyd & Michael Middleton. 📍 Fridays from 9 May 📌 Castle Methodist Church www.wea.org.uk/courses/arts... @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Creativity for Calm learners explored abstract paintings this afternoon. We played with ways to apply painting and ways to add texture. @weaadulted.bsky.social

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no time is a recurring theme #Text #TextArt #FineArt #Paint #AcrylicPaint #BlackAndWhite #BlackPaint #WhitePaint #LargeScale #Studio #artStudio #WorkInProgress #TextConext #HandRendered #Work #NoTime #Time #AbbieCairns #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist

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Had your fill of Easter eggs? 🐣 Here’s a treat of a different kind: My new paper explores what happened when I swapped teaching adults for learning to ice skate. It’s about identity, growth, and wobbly beginnings. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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SPACE: Peer-to-Peer Next sessions: Thur 24th (In person, 12-2) peer support, feedback, networking open to all creatives, free to attend online on GoogleMeets, DM for link In person, 37 Queen St, Colchester

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A much needed bank holiday for some art trail prep! 📅 Save the Date! The 2025 Rowhedge Art Trail is back on 10 & 11 May 🎨✨ #RowhedgeArtTrail #SaveTheDate #CommunityArt #SupportLocalArtists #Studio #ArtStudio #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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There is less than a month to go until the #RowhedgeArtTrail! You can find me at number 2 on the trail with David Piercy. 📅 Save the Date! The 2025 Rowhedge Art Trail is back on 10 & 11 May 🎨✨ #RowhedgeArtTrail #SaveTheDate #CommunityArt #SupportLocalArtists #ArtLovers

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🎨 Ready to grow your art skills? Join me online for Art Practical: Developing Drawing & Painting Skills – starting 7 May! 10 weeks of creative exploration, colour theory, texture, and finding your unique style. Let’s make art together! www.wea.org.uk/courses/arts...

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This afternoon, creativity for calm learners explored mark making and drawing to sound and music! 🎵 @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Just some arms, hanging out in the studio. Come and see what they become at Rowhedge Art Trail: 10th and 11th May. #RowhedgeArtTrail #Rowhedge #ColchesterArt #EssexArt #GroupExhibition #ArtTrail #TapeArt #DIYart #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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I’m pleased to share that my article "An interrogation of a proposed definition for artist-teachers in adult community learning" has been accepted by the International Journal of Art & Design Education (iJADE). 1/3

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Today is all about joins. With less than a month to go, I'd better get these sorted! Rowhedge Art Trail: 10th and 11th May, 11-5! #RowhedgeArtTrail #Rowhedge #ColchesterArt #EssexArt #GroupExhibition #ArtTrail #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EssexArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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I enjoyed giving my first WEA members lecture this evening! Thanks to everyone who joined and for the great questions after! @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Creativity for Calm learners have started to explore mix media outcomes! @weaadulted.bsky.social

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Each Tuesday we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal. This week we share ‘Why are qualifications frameworks so ineffective? The role of academic drift in their implementation in Bangladesh and Switzerland’ by Markus Maurer (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Pleased to be delivering my first @weaadulted.bsky.social members' talk this week! It’s both timely and important—exploring the role of arts-based adult community learning and the impact it can have on wellbeing.

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It was week one for my new drawing and painting for the terrified learners! (I love week one as it allows me to do some continuous line drawing!) @weaadulted.bsky.social

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SPACE: Peer-to-Peer Next sessions: Thur 24th (In person, 12-2) peer support, feedback, networking open to all creatives, free to attend online on GoogleMeets, DM for link In person, 37 Queen St, Colchester

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iJADE Conference 2025 | Ecologies Registration and abstract submissions open now! 🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025 📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio _ #iJADE2025

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The best of times. A conference followed by a writing retreat. What more does one need? #LSRN #phd

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I've moved the art studio outside 🌞 I can't quite believe Rowhedge Art Trail is next month. I will be spending today working on some new work to share with you all then! Rowhedge Art Trail: 10th and 11th May, #RowhedgeArtTrail #CreativeColchester #ColchesterArtist #EmergingArtist #AbbieCairns

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Each Sunday we will spotlight an area of research recently published in JVET and open the conversation to you. This week we ask what can the overlooked experiences of women in the British coal industry teach us about the social and cultural impact of vocational education? #SpotlightSundays

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I had a wonderful time at the #LSRN conference yesterday!

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✨ Publication news! ✨ I’m so pleased to share that my paper, "I Can’t Do It, Yet: An Autoethnographic Exploration of a Beginner Ice Skater," has been accepted for publication in Leisure Studies! ⛸️

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Drawing and painting learners take on split-complementary colours. @weaadulted.bsky.social

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