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Mandy McKenna Designs Adventures - Exciting news and wonderful people!
Dame Julie Walters signing original Mandy McKenna piece for the Haslemere Hounds Charity Auction in aid of Cancer Research.
Exciting news for Mandy as launching her fabrics, wallpapers and homeware range at Stand 28 at 'Top Draw' Design Fair, Olympia, London on 12th, 13th, 14th January 2025, one of the New Designers, showcasing her floral designs in London to shops and businesses threwout UK to stock Mandy's floral work.
From January 12th 2025 you will be available to order Mandy's product range, fabrics and wallpapers as a wholesale customer please email info@firingearth.co.uk and quote Wholesale2025bulkorder for price list , Thank you
Supporting Charities with Artwork
Mandy, makes time to paint at charity community projects, an important part of giving her art skills for free, to help others. Mandy is a passionate artist, raising money painting for charities over many years
Charity Summer News 2024
Mandy painted live again this Summer at The Haslemere Fringe Festival. Back in 2022, Mandy painted a large canvas to raise £920 towards up and coming musicians. In 2024, Mandy chose to paint on a selection of musical instruments kindly donated from an additional Haslemere business a collection of 6 new ukuleles and 3 new guitars. Mandy painted live at the festival with her recognisable floral style and had the guitars signed by the headline bands playing over the weekend including some big names! The £920.00 went towards enabling new bands for the next festival for 2026.
In the summer of 2024, Mandy painted live with her colourful floral artwork, adding her interpretation with her paintbrush to the musical instruments. Mandy had signatures from some big names such as Blue, T'Pau, Tash, Space Fishermen, Callum Beattie, Haircut 100, Rebecca Ferguson, Daniel Bedingfield and comedians, all signing the guitars and ukuleles, giving the public a chance to win one of the colourful and awesome hand painted guitars and ukuleles. Haslemere Fringe Festival is run by a collaboration of amazing locals, local businesses, and sponsors giving up their time to bring you fantastic music and creative weekend!
Auctioning of 'Garden of Colour' at The Dorchester Hotel for Leukaemia UK
In September 2023 Mandy's original floral painting was donated and auctioned at The Dorchester Hotel 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's painting raised through auction a whopping £850.00 for Leukaemia UK! Mandy had the pleasure of meeting with Dame Julie Walters who kindly signed her painting, before it went to London to The Dorchester Hotel for the main auction, helping raise more funds.
(top right) Haslemere Hens auctioned for Cancer Research and The Hunter Centre. (top right, bottom left) Firing Earth & Onslow Arms supporting the Happy Hippy Chick with funds towards Haslemere Fringe Festival.
Original artwork and textile range available via online shop, Horsham Market and Pop Up Shops. Mandy sells a range of fabric in various forms:
- Fabric by the metre
- wallpaper borders
- wallpaper by the roll
- Tea Towels
- Notebooks
- Greeting Cards
- Cushions
- Cosmetic Bags
Painting and clay workshops are run from Mandy's additional home studio Firing Earth (Ifold, Loxwood West Sussex) where she creates her regular designs and commissions.