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Mandy McKenna Designs is original artwork and her fabric range. Mandy's independent artwork and designs are available in a range of fabrics, wallpapers , homeware products and original artwork in her high street shop and online website
Mandy McKenna Designs Pop up Shop, studio and gallery, open until Christmas 2024 40, Cyprus Road, Burgess Hill Open hours 11am - 3pm Tuesday to Saturday Opening Hours next to The Mercantile Adventures Café
Find, Mandy's range of designer fabrics matching wallpapers, textile homeware, pottery and then her original artwork in different creative forms such as beautiful hand painted vintage manikins, stylish hand painted floral lampshades and original floral watercolour and acrylic paintings. Within Mandy's shop is a gallery wall showcasing and supporting a local artist each month as Artist of the month
Mandy's additional business is Firing Earth Pottery and Art Studio, based in Ifold, near Loxwood, West Sussex. Mandy's home studio is where she regularly works as an independent artist and designer for her own designs
2025 - Mandy McKenna Designs launching her fabrics, wallpapers and homeware ranges at 'Top Draw' Design Fair , Olympia, London from 12th, 13th, 14th January 2025, as one of the New Designers, showcasing her floral designs in London
Worthing studio relocated to Burgess Hill
Mandy has joined with a collection of artists to 'Seasons' no.37 studio at East Beach Studios on Beach Parade, just next door to my original Worthing seafront studio. Find a selection of her pretty floral ceramics and her original paintings for sale in 'Seasons'
Mandy's additonal studio, Firing Earth Pottery and Art Studio , in Ifold near Loxwood, runs painting and clay workshops, an established studio of over 15 years, for general pottery painting and art originally based in Surrey, and relocated, 6 years ago to her home studio in West Sussex. Ideal for individuals and small groups to experience clay workshops on the pottery wheel, general pottery painting , baby prints, floral watercolour and floral acrylic workshops for beginners. Open, and available to book by appointment to visit and be part of a workshop on a Monday and Tuesdays
Mandy's story behind every design she paints is different, but it is a story that creates the design and gives it a meaning and structure of where the design came from for example Mandy's small watercolour sketch named 'Lavender Fields ' was painted on a sunny day amongst a field of lavender surrounded by bees with the warm sunshine and gentle breeze, swaying lavender, just near Chichester. A design with a gentle impact creating tranquility and this painting, inspired Mandy to develop her first fabric design 'Lavender Fields '
Bold , but delicate watercolour artwork inspired the design, Scrumptious in Teal, Pink, Purple and Lime. Mandys artwork, painted with watercolour inks, adding bright colourful backgrounds to compliment her floral design and naming her design 'Scrumptious'.Mandy loved the way these designs add a pop of colour but can blend together so well, enabling you to mix designs together successfully
With encouragement, support from her husband and family, and her little dog by her side, Mandy has taken her artwork from paintings to the exciting world of textile design, a new journey begins ...
Artwork fundraising for Charities - Mandy, still makes time, to paint for charity community projects, which is an important ppartof giving art skills for free, to help others. Mandy is a passionate artist, raising money through painting for charities over many years
Summer News 2024 - Mandy painted live again this Summer at The Haslemere Fringe Festival. Mandy painted a large canvas ,originally back in 2022 , fundraised by auctioning Mandys original artwork raising £920.00. This year, Mandy chose to paint, on selection of musical instruments, 6 new ukuleles and 3 new guitars in her recognisable floral style and had the guitars, signed by the headline bands, main draw and silent auction took place at the festival . Mandy donated the money raised to the festival music charities. Music being a big passion to Mandy, supporting new bands, to play alongside,headline bands funraised £920.00 in 2024, to add to the funds to book new bands for the next festival in 2026 . Mandy is an Artist in Residence, a volunteer artist, helping fundraise through art and music
Painting live at the festival with colourful abstract and floral artwork adding her interpretation with her paintbrush and meeting bands such as Blue, Tau Pau, Tash, Space Fishermen, Callum Beattie, Haircut 100, Rebecca Ferguson, Daniel Bedingfield and comedians, was a busy and fun weekend. Giving the public a chance to purchase one of the colourful and awesome hand painted guitars and ukuleles was alot of fun! The instruments were donated by a local Haslemere buisness, so thank you
Haslemere Fringe Festival is run, and a collaboration of amazing locals, local businesses, and sponsors giving up their time to bring you, fantastic music and creative weekend
September 2023 - An original floral painting by Mandy was donated and auctioned at The Dorchester Hotel, London at an event called 'Who's Cooking Who' a collaboration of famous chefs cooking for guests and celebrities at The Dorchester Hotel, fundraising for Leukaemia UK. Mandy helped make a difference. Mandys painting raised through auction £850.00 for Leukaemia UK. Mandy had the pleasure of meetinhg with Dame Julie Walters who kindly signed her painting, before it went to London to The Dorchester Hotel for tge main auction
Mandy, through her artwork, enjoys painting at live events , meeting and introducing herself to the audience and musicians and fundraising for many charities with paintings and have included Cancer Research , Macmillan, NHS, Haslemere Fringe Festival, Haslemere Hounds and Hares, The Hunter Centre, Haslemere for Dementia , Leukaemia UK and Music Charities
