Edinburgh-based Sheila McDonald is the latest member of our creative team to offer workshops at The Arienas Collective. I met Sheila for...

Apparently, most of us don’t know what we really want in life. Recently I've got into podcasts, and while tuning in to episode 498 of...

Self portrait by artist Mark Kirkham, aka the Edinburgh Sketcher Artist Mark Kirkham, known locally as the Edinburgh Sketcher , has been...

I recently caught up with artist Lucy Wayman, who runs macramé workshops at The Arienas Collective, to find out what she's been working...

I want to live a more earth-conscious life. And it's no coincidence that many of The Arienas Collective workshops I host at home use...

In my Creative Focus blogs I feature one particular area of creativity that we offer at The Arienas Collective. This time it's jewellery...

Recently, I dropped one of my great-grandmother's (as I learned later from my mum) china cups and sadly it cracked into several pieces....

Ever since I was a young child, I've been surrounded by women making things: be that hats, clothes, curtains or cups of tea! My nana...

At the start of 2023, I wrote in The Arienas Collective newsletter about the timely benefits of taking a creative deep dive, and...

Do you have gifts to get for people that are hard to buy for? Are you trying to buy more ethically and support local and independent...

With so many festivals happening in August, the biggest question most of my visitors ask me, is how do you decide what to see and do?...

Perhaps it’s ironic I’m composing this on a keyboard, but I can touch-type much faster than I can write by hand, which helps when you’re...

As I'm sure you'd expect, I spend most of my time encouraging people to shop with The Arienas Collective for Christmas. And, of course, I...

The brand new show All That Glitters started last week on BBC2. This month's guest blogger silver clay jewellery expert Anna Campbell...

Thanks so much to bookbinder Cass Barron for doing a live 'make-a-long' as part of our online Open Day this year! If you missed it don’t...

Like many other small creative businesses, we've had to learn to live with the COVID restrictions which sadly meant closing our in-person...

Normally at this time of the year, we would be getting ready to welcome you to The Arienas Collective for some demonstrations along with...

An update from many of the Arienas Collective artists on what they've been doing during lockdown and how you can support them

When there’s no room for your imagining: A memo for Artists, Entrepreneurs, Creatives & Career-Changers alike

Creating a personal vision: how past interests can feed our future