Mixed-Media Album Cover Collage Art Workshop

Growing up in a West London flat in the 1980s, I learned early on that life is lived in the noise. My parents absolutely lived and breathed music. My dad worked in the industry, and my mum was a fiercely creative soul who would blast the sounds of the Sex Pistols and The Clash from morning until night. London back then was a total contradiction: grey, grim streets wrapped around incredibly colourful characters. Amidst all that concrete, I found myself obsessed with the vibrant graffiti on the city walls. It is exactly like my art today - a monochrome background smashed open by explosions of colour.The idea to use album sleeves as my canvas came straight from my mum. When I was very young, she used to grab my crayons and draw right onto the covers of her records. I can still see her so clearly, totally lost in another world. That raw, unfiltered connection between music and art shaped everything for me. Records aren't just objects; they are the literal soundtrack of my childhood memories, and that's where the whole story begins.I stepped into the professional art world over a decade ago, and for a long time, I was just working to everyone else’s vision. It was completely soul-destroying. Trying to please other people stripped away my confidence and made me blind to the beauty of my own work. The traditional art world can be a pretty toxic, rigid place, and I quickly realised it wasn't for me.I refuse to be put in a box, restricted to one medium, or told what to do. Rebellious? Definitely, maybe;) I need total freedom when I create. Stepping away was a survival tactic - I had to rethink and rebalance everything before I ended up hating art altogether. Looking back, that heavy space taught me the best lesson I ever could have learned: stay authentic to yourself, and never stop believing in your art.When I lost my mum, the grief completely changed the game. But inside that pain, I found my true voice. I channelled all that emotion into building two projects rooted in the exact same concept: the chaotic beauty of transformation through collage.REFRAMEDITS sessions are surprisingly meditative, addictively fun, and built for anyone who wants to reignite their creative spark in an uplifting, zero-pressure space. On the other hand, The HOUSE of MAD ALCHEMY takes that same concept deeper. These are tailored experiences for corporate teams, musicians, artists, and wellbeing spaces, designed to break through deep blocks and turn heavy life challenges into creative fuel.I’m not a trained art teacher or a therapist. But I have lived, and I have learned. These aren't your average, creative workshop. When you come to a session, you are stepping straight into my world. We sit together to create, and you’ll actually be using pieces of my own artwork alongside fragments of my mum’s personal vintage magazine collection - original copies of NME, Q, and Rolling Stones spanning from punk to 90s Britpop. Layering these 30-year-old magazines and song sheets into something new is a deeply emotional process. Watching people bring these personal pieces to life in a totally new way is a feeling I can't quite put into words, but it is incredibly healing.My big mission now is to completely dismantle the pretentiousness of the art world. Why should anyone else’s opinion matter? It doesn't. Collage is the ultimate freedom. It lets you tear things up, stick them down, and start again on an album sleeve with absolutely no rules.I want to inspire you to create with total conviction, to trust your own hands, and to see the beauty in things that are beautifully imperfect. Our heaviest emotions and experiences are actually the most powerful tools we have if we channel them right. You won’t just walk away with a custom album sleeve; you’ll walk away with something completely unique, personal, and a bit of visual gold.Join the REFRAMEDITS collective.