Welcome to Monk Quixote

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Hello!

Let’s go tilt at windmills

We’ll spend ~20,000 hours at school, and a further ~80,000 at work. My goal is to help people do more of what makes them happy by doing more of what makes me happy.

I make books, boxes and printed objects –  drawn less by formal training than by an insatiable curiosity about what happens when ideas from different disciplines collide. Largely self-taught and unafraid to experiment, I like work that is playful and imaginative on the surface, with something stranger and darker running underneath. 

I use my experience as a digital producer and creative consultant in my teaching, with a particular interest in how games, puzzles and storytelling can make the process of creating things genuinely good for you.

Blog

  • A collagerie
    This week’s MQ Art Club was one of my favourite sessions with this particular group – exploring patterns, stencils, and collage. Together we produced what I will term a ‘collagerie’ of patchwork folks…
  • Remastered/ Re-Arrangements in R Minor
    A space to spark my creativity and create sparks for others.
  • Story box(es)
    It’s been another long hiatus, for which I can only apologise to my solitary reader. I’ve been busy elsewhere but – as with many people – realising that the internet… Read more: Story box(es)

About

Children working together on collaborative canvas
Creating on collaborative canvas

MQ Art Club for children

Creativity club for years 4-6 focusing on creative play, storytelling, and collaboration through arts, crafts, and games.

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Paste papers on a single section pamphlet

Book arts and bookbinding workshops

Workshops for adults that introduce the basics of book arts and bookbinding.

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Selection of MonkQuixote book arts

Book arts and ephemera

Visual stories and structures that surprise and play with form.

What attendees are saying – Children

“I like the amazing activities at this art club. They are fun, creative and interesting. I also love seeing all my friends. I think this is a great art club.”
Sophie (year 6)