Green Magpie

23/05/2026

📣 Workshop announcement 📣
~ Saturday 18th July 2026 ~

🌳 Fancy a glorious day of crafting within the idyllic surroundings of The South Downs?

✂️Join me for a full day of collage craft Holden Farm Camping & Cafe on
Saturday 18th July 2026.

💚In this immersive and relaxing day I will guide you through the principles of cut paper collage.

🖼️ You will come away with your own unique artworks, created using salvaged and painted papers.

🥪 A delicious lunch will be included from the Holden Farm Cafe as well as endless tea, coffee and snacks in The Cowshed where we will be for the day.

💚All materials are included in the cost, with no previous experience needed. Suitable for participants aged 16+

👩🏻‍🎨Spaces are limited so get in touch if you would like to reserve a spot.

Lots of love and happy bank holiday weekend,

Jo

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13/05/2026

LOVE working with Holden Farm Camping & Cafe💚💚💚

03/05/2026

“If someone you love did not make it on that trip
you can take it for them, with them.

If someone you love did not witness that milestone
you can show them anytime you like.

If someone you love did not get to do their living
you can finish those dreams on their behalf.

The beautiful thing about love, you see,
is that death need not stop life.

If you carry someone in your heart
you can take them with you
anywhere you like”

~

🌈 Today I am thinking of my sister Emma, as I do everyday 07/07/87 - 03/05/08

🌈Today I am thinking of you, and the person you miss.

🌈Today I am holding the family close

🌈Today I hold those in conflict zones experiencing unimaginable grief, in my heart.

🖼️image; original cut paper collage of a treasured memory playing in the back garden, jumping off the wall catching the wind in Dad’s golf umbrella ☂️

21/04/2026

“| have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.
Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead.
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”

~Beryl Markham - West with the Night, 1942.

✂️A3 sized original bespoke home portrait. Created using 100% salvaged papers and my trusty scalpel.

💙Commissioned by to celebrate all the years enjoyed in this beautiful home 💫

17/04/2026

💫 Friday feel good 💫

Delighted to share this recent commission for my lovely client who wanted a keepsake of the Edwardian London Terrace they have now outgrown.

♻️ A total joy rummaging through my paper stash to recreate these London Stone Bricks; using old Amazon sleeves, ancient file divider card, vintage dress pattern tissue, and discarded manilla envelopes.

✂️This a2 sized portrait will hang in their new home, ready for more happy memories to be made around it.

🏡 If you would like an original, bespoke collaged artwork to celebrate your favourite place then get in touch via the email button in my profile or the submission page on my website.

📔 I have limited availability scattered throughout the year, so be sure to reach out if you have a first time home, forever home, childhood home, wedding venue, favourite shop or landmark you would like immortalised in paper.

🌟 Places are important 🌟

24/03/2026

🚨Places are important🚨

Thrilled to share this recent artwork; a gift commissioned by .fullerton for husband Jack’s birthday over the weekend!

So very happy being asked to recreate this wonderful couple again in collage. I captured them a few years back, in their first home, ahead of their wedding day (a really thoughtful gift from groom to bride the night before they exchanged vows 🥹🩷).
(Swipe to see!)

This wonderful couple have had a busy few years; getting married, moving home and now with two babes in tow!

Such a joy to depict this significant chapter of their life in this bespoke, paper artwork.

💚💫Much love and many thanks Julia & Jack 💫💚

25/02/2026

LOVED making this for Helen Thebrowclinic 💚💚💚

📍 25 Southgate St ❤️
We LOVE our building. Full of history, charm and character in the heart of the City. Here’s how to find us/ get to us.
🚂 If you’re visiting us from afar you can get to us easily via train as the station is only a short walk away.
🚕 Taxi can drop you right to the door.
🚌 There’s a bus stop right outside and Wi******er Bus Station is a short walk away too.
🅿️ Closest car park is Tower Street multi story another short work from us.
Full Address:
25 Southgate St
Wi******er
So239eb
www.thebrowclinic.co.uk
Thank you to .magpie Jo for creating this bespoke artwork to celebrate our anniversary- capturing our lovely building in all her glory! It hangs pride of place for you all to admire in clinic 🥰🙌

17/02/2026

24/01/2026

“I don’t ever crave extraordinary moments anymore.
Just small, gentle hums of beauty streaming from below, above, and beyond simply from paying attention.
Sound. Light. Shadow. Art. Warmth. The night. The morning. Dreams that are not faraway but exist right here - already in my days.”

~ by ✨

🤍 Happy 15 years of marriage to my lovely client who commissioned this as their anniversary gift 🤍

🖼️ Bespoke paper collage created by hand using a selection of salvaged papers; used envelopes, discarded Amazon delivery sleeves, old dress pattern and The Little Greene Paint Company catalogue pages.

14/01/2026

❄️A joyful, snowy, sunny day remembered in paper ❄️

Happy anniversary to my lovely clients who married on this week many moons ago, returning to this, their first home as the snow fell around them.

This is my fourth piece for this lovely couple who I have had the total pleasure of following their life journey together, through collage.

✨Places are important ✨