Events / Fundraising with Art

Events 2025Horsham  Market,  Carfax Square

Saturday 5th and 12th April 8.30am - 4.30pm

Horsham Art Trail and Events 2025

Find my stand  Mandy McKenna Designs

12th and 13th July 2025

`Carry on Crafting Festival` at The South of England Show,  Ardingly

 Visit The Floral Fringe Fair , Loxwood Meadow,   Loxwood and find my stand on Saturday 30th and 31st  August 2025 - Mandy McKenna Designs

January 2025 -Top Drawer,  Olympia, London - Trade show 👍Thank you to everyone who visited

Mandy, launched her fabric range, wallpaper and homeware products at Stand 28 at Top Drawer, Olympia London in January 2025. This was the first time showcasing her floral designs to London and for future shops throughout the UK  to introduce to their shops and customers Thank you for everyone who visited my stand and made the event so successful,  as my first trade show, I really enjoyed meeting so many people and hearing all your lovely comments. Thanks go to Char Goodfellow, events/Social Media/Marketing/Promotor who was assisting me at Top Drawer. Thanks to Andy Locke - Upholster andy.upholstery53@gmail.com for the upholstery of my now beautiful Chaise Longue in my velvet fabric Purplelicious Steyning Tel.07739 695286

Thanks go to Becci Marsh,  Ruby Baker, Sarah-Louise Cragg for their work, innovation,  work skills and support with Mandy McKenna Designs 

     Scrumptious in Teal floral tea towel from the Mandy McKenna Designs fabric collection    

FUNDRAISING WITH ART - Artist Mandy McKenna  Supports Charities, with her Artwork  - Mandy is happy making time to paint artwork for fundraising projects. This is an important part of giving her art skills to help others. From a volunteer artist for Haslemere Hens with an auction for Cancer Research and The Hunter Centre,  Firing Earth and Mandy McKenna Designs along with The Onslow Arms Pub, Loxwood sponsored  the painted hen , named The Happy Hippy Chick by Mandy, with all funds raised to Haslemere Fringe music festival

 

Supporting local community projects,  lucky to involve celebrities such as Dame Julie Walters and Super Model Jodie Kidd. Visiting the studio and Supporting and signing Mandy`s artwork, for Haslemere Hounds and Haslemere Hens, ready for the main auction -

Mandy volunteers to paint live at festivals and gardens such as from Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex to Haslemere Fringe Festival, Surrey in 2022 and 2024, painting live, over the weekend a large canvas  of the festival , now named 'The Colour of Music'  scene now sold raising a substantial amount of money donated to the music charities that supports young musicians to play at festivals, signed by Artist Mandy McKenna and musicians from the event Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Feelings, Blue, Tau Pau, Tash, Space Fishermen, Callum Beattie, Haircut 100, Rebecca Ferguson, Daniel Bedingfield, The BOILEROOM music venue and many more! 

September 2023 - Mandy donated another original floral painting which was exhibited and auctioned at The Dorchester Hotel at an event called 'Who's Cooking Who' - A collaboration of celebratory chefs cooking for guests and celebrities,  fundraising for Leukaemia UK. Mandy's painting raised a fantastic amount for Leukaemia UK! Mandy has had the pleasure of meeting with Dame Julie Walters again, signing the painting, before it went to The Dorchester Hotel, for the main auction, where it was sold for charity

During , 2019, 2020, 2021  brought us the Covid virus, and a difficult time for everyone staying at home and putting our businesses on hold, giving us time to plan ahead our futures. Mandy, with clay stock , created and made hundreds of clay hearts, all hand painted and fired in her home studio Firing Earth with each one sold to fundraise,  for the NHS nurses and doctors, to say thank you for all their hard work, kept Mandy very busy!

Contact Mandy to paint at your event this Spring and Summer!

             

 

  

   

   

  

      

 

     

 

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