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Visual art with Sandra Kennedy

Creative art with Sandra Kennedy

Sandra led a small group of care workers from Crossroads Care on Harris. The group focused on weaving, using materials participants may have at home or would find in their surrounding environment. Many of the weavings incorporated sheep’s wool, bog cotton, moss and in contrast, some beautiful offcuts of Harris Tweed.

About Sandra: Sandra Kennedy is an artist from Lewis working in both Gaelic and English. She has lots of experience in teaching art to people from all backgrounds and has been leading workshops in many different venues. She works with different media and art forms including painting, sculpture and printmaking as well as design for drama. 

From the workshops

Detail of a weaving using strips of multicoloured material.
Detail of weaving using multi-coloured strips of material. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
A weaving created using different natural marterials including wool and dried moss.
Detail of weaving incorporating natural materials such as wool and moss. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
A yellow crate holds natural and found materials including blue rope, moss and bracken.
Natural and found materials from Harris were used to create textiles that reflect the local area. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
A woman holds a small hand loom in front of crates containing materials for weaving
Sandra Kennedy demonstrates the materials to be used at the workshop on Harris. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
A table covered with crates full of textile items sits below a large 3-paned window in a traditional former school building.
The weaving workshop took place in a former school building in Tarbert, Harris. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
A small boat sails on blue waters from a rocky shore
Luminate Weaving Workshop in Tarbert, Isle of Harris. (Photo: Alison Johnston)
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