SK Writer & Illustrator
-
Recent Posts
- Sally Kindberg and another Royal Literary Fund podcast
- The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels
- Sally Kindberg and Robin Hood
- Angels in the Fens
- Sally Kindberg, the Sitwells, Pollocks Toy Theatres and the Ballets Russes
- Punch & Judy celebration May 2026
- May Day 2026 by a windmill
- The Museum of Dust travels to Doncaster
- Sally Kindberg in Cornwall once again
- Doctor Who and TARDIS dust
Subscribe
Categories
Tags
- Bloomsbury
- Bloomsbury Activity books
- Bloomsbury Childrens Books
- books
- CBBC
- childrens books
- comic strip
- comic strips
- Cornwall
- Design For Today
- dinosaurs
- drawing
- drawings
- Draw It!
- Draw It! Dinosaurs
- Draw It! London
- Draw It! Monsters
- Draw It! Pirates
- exhibition
- Hair
- handwriting
- Lifebabble
- live drawing
- London
- London Zoo
- map
- maps
- Museum of Dust
- notebook
- notebooks
- Nottingham
- Pollocks Toy Museum
- Primrose Hill
- robots
- Sally Kindberg
- SCBWI British Isles
- seaside
- Swedenborg House
- The Comic Strip History of Space
- the Guardian
- The Hand Book
- The Hand Book of hopes and dreams
- work in progress
- workshop
- workshops
Recent Comments
- Sally Kindberg and a podcast | Sally Kindberg's Blog on Sally Kindberg and Robin Hood
- The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels | Sally Kindberg's Blog on Angels in the Fens
- The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels | Sally Kindberg's Blog on Sally Kindberg, the Sitwells, Pollocks Toy Theatres and the Ballets Russes
- The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels | Sally Kindberg's Blog on Sally Kindberg at Pollocks Toy Museum again
- The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels | Sally Kindberg's Blog on Sally Kindberg’s Museum of Dust – dust from the Great Wall of China
Archives
Category Archives: Workshops
The Museum of Dust continuing on its travels
Adding to the Museum is always an adventure … meeting people on my journeys and discovering stories about a location, event or a character. My miniature dustpan and brush, essential for the collection process, has to be replaced after a … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Travels, Workshops
Tagged angels, dust, events, Fenland, Museum of Dust, St Wendreda, St Wite, talks, Whitchurch Canonicorum, workshops
Leave a comment
Sally Kindberg’s workshops for all ages (and a little film)
Sally Kindberg’s Family Day workshop at the Guardian With thanks to artist Michael Challenger who made the video and to Roland Denning who extracted this clip. A few of my many workshops for all ages … My workshops are varied, … Continue reading
‘Workshops/explorations’ article in the sixth Swedenborg Review
Congratulations to Swedenborg House on the publication of the sixth Swedenborg Review. Delighted that it features my ‘Workshops/explorations’ article, referencing some of the SK workshops held there. More to come! More about these and other workshops in different venues here.
Posted in Drawings, Workshops, Writing
Tagged angels, article, Emanuel Swedenborg, notebooks, Sally Kindberg notebooks, Swedenborg House, Swedenborg Review, workshops
1 Comment
Sally Kindberg and workshops, some involving a Hat of Surprise
It’s not as if I usually wear my Hat of Surprise, but this hat is sometimes an important part of one of my many comic strip workshops, including those at schools, the Institute of Physics, the Guardian, Ledbury Poetry Festival, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Workshops
Tagged children's book illustrator, childrens book author, comic strips, festivals, graphic storytelling, Hat of Surprise, magician's hat, museum workshops, paper houses, portraits, school workshops, storytelling, top hat, visual narrative, visual storytelling, workshops
Leave a comment
Fitzrovia Fete August 10th 2025
Great fun to be invited back to take part in the annual Fitzrovia Fete event organised by Lucia Jaffer and her Fitzrovia Community Centre team. My drawing prompts this year were ‘Draw a Family Tree and/or Draw your Best Friend’, … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects
Swedenborg House, the 18th century home of the Emanuel Swedenborg archive, is a house full of mysterious objects. More than one hundred years ago this house in Bloomsbury, London became home to all things related to the 18th century polymath, … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects
Another workshop event at Swedenborg House on April 16th. Check their site to register for a free ticket. You could bring your own mysterious object to draw, although there are plenty of mysterious things in situ. You could also could … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and a happy school visit
Last week I visited an infants and junior school in Windsor. Recently my school visits have been to Sixth Forms, running workshops for the Royal Literary Fund encouraging writing skills, although in the past I have run many workshops in … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Visits, Workshops
Tagged book week, cartoon characters, drawing cats, drawing expressions, live drawing, school visit, workshop
1 Comment
The Queen in my suitcase
‘Aha!’ said a member of Glasgow airport’s security staff as a small Royal person was revealed lurking at the bottom of my suitcase. Ten years ago this summer, whilst returning from the Outer Hebrides, my luggage set off a shrill … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels, Visits, Workshops
Tagged an Lanntair, Bernara, carvings, chess, chess sets, Iceland, islands, Isle of Lewis, Lewis chess set, Outer Hebrides, Queen, Stornaway Gazette, travel, Uig, Vikings, Visit Scotland
2 Comments
House of Dreams workshop with Sally Kindberg at Swedenborg House
The painted wooden summer house where eighteenth century polymath Emanuel Swedenborg sometimes wrote his mysterious books, thought of inventions, planned his garden or played music on his organ, is now in Skansen, Sweden. I visited here when I was three … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged drawing workshop, dream, family workshops, House of Dreams, memory, paper cut out, paper house, Skansen, Summer House, Swedenborg, synaesthesia, Triola, workshop
1 Comment