This all-day workshop is an opportunity to join a small group for a relaxed and playful experience, learning and developing the skills of mark-making, painting and printing on fabric, using simple tools and equipment. You will leave with a decorated tote bag and/or additional items you may like to bring along; plus the ability to … Continue reading Playful Painting and Printing With Eloise Renouf – 11 April 2026

In this workshop you’ll learn how to use organic watercolour shapes to form decorative botanical floral designs in a colour palette of your choice. You’ll learn various watercolour techniques and decorative ideas to help you create your very own, unique piece that combines watercolour, inks details, and accents of metallics. You’ll use inspiration from the … Continue reading Botanical Watercolour With Essoldo Design – 17 April 2026

Soak up the glorious colours of nature and learn to create striking abstract shapes including Kate’s signatures stripes, pebbles, and blocks. In this workshop you’ll learn how to use organic watercolour shapes to form decorative abstract designs in a colour palette of your choice. You’ll learn various watercolour techniques and decorative ideas to help you … Continue reading Abstracts inspired by Nature in Watercolour With Essoldo Design – 18 April 2026

About the workshop: This workshop will focus on transforming the colour of fabrics, threads and papers to create a curated and visually engaging collection of materials. We will experiment with various small batch dyeing techniques, utilising natural dyes, rust, and selected art supplies to alter and enhance the appearance of your gathered stash. The majority … Continue reading Dyeing with a Difference with Deb Cooper – 25th April 2026

About the workshop: Gather and select personal items from your stash—snippets of fabric, lace, ribbons and buttons—to incorporate into a unique and tactile fabric book. The workshop will guide you through the assembly of your book, focusing on fabric manipulation and layering to achieve depth and texture. You will have the opportunity to add stitch, … Continue reading Textured & Embellished Cloth Book with Deb Cooper – 26th April 2026

About the workshop: A one-day mixed media workshop with hand embroidery, patchwork, quilting and found materials. Combine traditional patchwork with a creative approach to gathering and reusing redundant textile materials. Explore patchwork, quilting and collage, and appliqué with small found items. Embellish details with Indian inspired hand sewing techniques. About the artist: Maria studied Embroidery … Continue reading Quilt and Collage with Maria Thomas – 16th May 2026

About the workshop: A one-day patchwork workshop inspired by the bright colours and bold shapes used in the early modern designs of the Bloomsbury group; a circle of artists known for their unconventional approach to art & design. Active during the first half of the 20th century, it was said that they ‘lived in squares, … Continue reading Circles, Squares & Triangles with Maria Thomas – 17th May 2026

Amber Lily is an award-winning contemporary textile artist specialising in colour and mixed media. Her practice transforms overlooked details of everyday life – such as graffiti, scuffed surfaces, urban flora, and discarded materials – into expressive, abstract compositions. Sustainability is central to her approach, often incorporating repurposed fabrics, packaging, and household textiles. Combining techniques such … Continue reading Noticing the Unnoticed With Amber-Lily Design – 13 June 2026

You will be shown Jennifer’s trademark experimental techniques, such as waxing, stitching and trapping recycled papers to create sketchbook pages. These will then be made into a traditionally bound A5 soft backed sketchbook, embellished with beautiful hand stitched details, fold out pages and page pockets. All materials and equipment are provided, but you may wish … Continue reading Experimental Book Binding With Jennifer Collier – 20 June 2026

Russell Barratt brings a unique perspective to textile artistry, combining his background in clothes making with a passionate commitment to sustainable practices. His vibrant, expressive quilts, crafted exclusively from secondhand materials, have earned him recognition for pushing the boundaries of traditional quilting techniques while maintaining a deep connection to domestic life and personal memories. Through … Continue reading Clothing Appliqué with Russell Barratt – 11 July 2026

Suzette is a textile artist whose multi-layered work blends fabric collage, free-machine and hand stitching, and mixed media. Her practice is deeply rooted in narrative and memory, drawing inspiration from the natural world and the stories woven into the materials themselves. Working mostly with repurposed and found fabrics—often thrifted, gifted, or carrying personal histories—Suzette embraces … Continue reading Fabric Windows With Suzette Smart – 18, 19 July 2026

About the workshop: 2-Day Creative Workshop –  Playful, Expressive, Experimental Join artist and printmaker Fiona Wilson for a relaxed and hands-on two-day workshop focused on combining drawing with simple printmaking techniques. Working from still life arrangements of flora, fruit and vegetables, you’ll explore shape, line and mark-making through a series of playful and structured exercises. … Continue reading Painterly Printmaking & Drawing – Exploring Flora, Fruit & Form with Fiona Wilson – 25th-26th July 2026

About the workshop: Join artist and teacher Jane Chipp for a rich and inspiring three-day masterclass in creating an ephemera journal, a tactile, expressive art form that weaves together vintage papers, fabric, stitch, paint, and found treasures. Over the course of the workshop, Jane will guide you step by step to: * Build the foundation … Continue reading The Vintage Ephemera Journal with Jane Chipp – 4th-6th September 2026

Rosy Tydeman works from her studio, La Vie En Rose Makery, in the creative West Quarter of Exeter – named after the Edith Piaf song about seeing life through rose tinted spectacles! Ever since sneaking upstairs at the age of three with an illicit pair of scissors and cutting up her dad’s beautiful paisley pyjamas, … Continue reading Fabric Memory Box With Rosy Tydeman – 3 & 4 October 2026

Hannah Lamb is a textile artist, lecturer and author, based at her home studio in Bingley, West Yorkshire. She works with a range of textile processes, including stitch, print and fabric manipulation, creating textile artworks from an intimate scale to larger installation works. Suitable for all abilities, although some experience with hand stitch would be advantageous. Studying historical … Continue reading Blueprints from Historical Textiles with Hannah Lamb – 17, 18 October 2026

About the workshop: In this workshop, you will create your own personalised embroidered textile wreath. Start by crafting a beautiful set of embellishments, then explore colour by painting your base fabrics. With your collection of materials, you will learn how to construct your wreath using hand stitch and contemporary applique techniques. Once your wreath takes … Continue reading Embroidered Fabric Wreath with Emily Notman – 7th November 2026

Julia trained in Applied Design at Edinburgh College of Art and has been teaching Textiles and exhibiting for over 25 years. Now based in Manchester, England her textural mixed media textiles pieces suggest fragments of landscape without being figurative. Work is inspired by weathered, organic, irregular forms and the repetition of simple shapes, like clusters … Continue reading Landscape Fragments With Julia Wright – 28, 29 November 2026