More Captain Cook Memorial Museum Children’s Workshops for easter and half term.
Back by popular demand!
Starting with... 
PRINT-A-TIPUTA on 11TH APRIL
Print and wear home your very own Polynesian style Poncho (Tiputa) using paints, rolling sticks, rubbing techniques, natural woven printing blocks, indigenous leaf fronds and personalised printing shapes. Learn how precious tapa cloth, made into Tiputas, was once meticulously decorated with pigments and presented to important people (Island Chieftains,) imbuing the wearer with great power and protection. Make and present yourself with a Tiputa in a similar way to the Islanders, who Captain Cook met and traded with on his adventures. Award yourself an attractive outfit of honour and strength - a Polynesian take on the ‘magic cloak’ or protective, status affirming 'cermonial robes' of Kings and Queens, adopted by Western society. 
Take a look at the actual garments being replicated in the workshop, as part of the museum’s new exhibition
‘Fashion and Fibres: Island Dress in Polynesia.’

Both workshop and garment are included in Museum Admission Price!
No need to book. Just turn up!

Brought to you in the newly opened, self contained Captain Cook Memorial Museum education room
by Rachael Boddington

Rachael's latest handpainted signs entice customers into Whitby's new Little Cheese Shop, 'The Mouse Hole'
on Silver Street, where a decent selection of traditional and novelty waxed cheeses, crackers, chutneys, breads, wooden cheese boards and hampers can be found and ordered from proprietors Jon & Deb. The couple designed their cheese moon-gazing mouse logo to launch their new business in the run up to Christmas and have commissioned Rachael to develop the colours and shapes to give the shop its cute and cheesy identity both inside and out. Mini mice shaped blackboard price labels, painted counter characters, open/closed sign and 
stack of fake cheeses for large window display are all underway!

Chalkboards throughout have just been given a Glittermoth make-over!

Turn yourself into a bat, cat, owl or demon and frighten your loved ones using the underestimated power of magazine paper collage at
The Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby this Halloween. 
Rachael will be standing in for Lloyd Bowen, helping visitors of all ages metamophose into beasties from 10am - 4.30pm.
There will be glue. There will be paper. There will be card.
There will be fun to be had. There will be masks to take home.

Mask Making Workshop is included with museum admission...
Just appear. No need to book! 
Visit: www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk 
or Call: 01947 601900 - for more information

Hot of the drawing (and chalk) board, a selection of these pub, restaurant and cafe interior and exterior welcome and menu signs that Rachael has recently found she can carry off.

Clients now include the newly re-opened Dolphin Hotel, Bridge Street, Whitby. Al's Cafe, Whitby now have 19 pieces of her handiwork and her chalk-pen travels have just taken her to the furthest reaches of South Yorkshire and outskirts of Derbyshire, 'The New Inn' Chesterfield and 'The Crown' Killamarsh. 

Harp playing prodigy and Glittermoth neighbour Jessica Wright has just released her debut album 'HOME' with its pretty array of tranquil Celtic classics. Enchanted glade and fairy figure album artwork designed, painted and carefully collaged by Rachael Boddington. Jessica appears at Bothams tearooms on Skinner Street, Whitby every Saturday afternoon and is regularly found strumming her harp at mini gigs, bars and weddings throughout North Yorkshire. She will be making a special appearance at 'The Great Seaside Vintage Fair' Whitby Pavilion on Sunday 29th July. CD album 'HOME' is available to buy through [email protected] for a bargainsome £8  

                     Try your hand at Interactive Installation 
                                      'Loom Raider'
as part of Holmfirth's Indoor Market Pop-up Exhibition evening
                             and the main Art Market event...
 Artists Rachael Boddington (Glittermoth Factory) and Amy Hirst are proud to present a rare appearance by the worker's hero King Ludd. The good people of Holmfirth are invited to step up to (puppet) King Ludd's cabinet and help him wield his hammer and his shoe to redistribute the wealth back to those skilled ones amongst you.   

                                    This is the first time King Ludd has been revealed to the public in 200 years!
                                     See him in action 6.30pm-9.30pm 23rd June and all day on 24th June

This will be an interactive installation inspired by the legend of King Ludd, inviting Art Market visitors to peep into the past, to celebrate the story of the Luddites and their important place in our history. The artists will be present to welcome people, share in conversations and facilitate their engagement with the work. Visitors will be invited to manipulate the puppet.
                                                                Meet you there for a smashing time!

'I find myself drawn to things that seem both magical and impossible'
Check out the blogspot interviews  http://theartsmarket.blogspot.co.uk/