The Artist Ali draws inspiration from the every-day. Everyday people and everyday things and is endlessly fascinated by people and their stories, particularly their memories of ordinary home and working lives. Wherever possible she works with old and used materials. Seeking out fragments of old clothing, household linens and the everyday bits & pieces … Continue reading Patchwood Samplers with Ali Ferguson – 7 and/or 8 October 2023 – Fully booked, please e-mail to be added to waiting list

  The Artist Sue Brown is an artist who uses printmaking to tell stories. She is inspired by process as much as nature. Her work springs from the pages of her sketchbooks and she develops carefully researched themes using printmaking processes. Sue uses her work to explore the relationships we have with our garden visitors; … Continue reading Mixed Media Sketchbook Techniques with Sue Brown 14 and 15 October 2023 – Fully booked, please e-mail to be added to waiting list

  Slow Lane Studio forages, cultivates and uses plants to create colour for textiles, paper, printmaking and pigments. Created from a desire to be more environmentally-aware, buy and consume fewer products and generate less waste, Jacqui Symons began exploring natural colour and dyes and developed the use of plant-based pigments for oil-based printmaking inks.  From … Continue reading Introduction to natural dyes with Jacqui Symons of Slow Lane Studio 21 and 22 October 2023 – fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist Mrs B hardly needs an introduction – her workshops are always very popular! Mrs Bertimus studied fashion and textiles at Saint Martin’s School of Art and enjoyed three glorious years of making completely un-wearable garments. She has taught in Art Education for over twenty-five years and loves sharing techniques and eating lots of … Continue reading Spend the day drawing with Mrs Bertimus 4 or 5 November 2023 – 4 Nov fully booked, places still available 5 Nov

The artis “My works combine wire and thread to create intricate and delicate two dimensional and three-dimensional works reflecting observations of nature. The inspiration stems from the love natural forms in which I look for shapes, textures, colours, within what might be a hedge row or a motorway verge, recording the small and insignificant details … Continue reading Natural Collection with Liz Cooksey 11 and 12 November 2023 – FULLY BOOKED (E-MAIL TO BE ADDED TO WAITING LIST)

Tansy Hargan is a British artist based in Sheffield, U.K. With a background in architecture and landscape architecture, Tansy’s art is an exploration of place, time and materiality. “I explore urban and rural places with my sketchbook, making brisk marks and colour blocks to simplify and record snapshots of what I experience. Repetition and annotation … Continue reading “Little Book of Colour” with Tansy Hargan 23 & 24 March 2024

Debbie Lyddon is an artist and maker. Her work explores landscape and place, and her inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to her surroundings. Cloth is at the centre of Debbie’s practice and she enjoys the process of making and constructing with it. She combines traditional stitch techniques with non-traditional materials such as bitumen, … Continue reading Weathered Cloth Workshop with Debbie Lyddon – 13th & 14th April 2024

  Maria studied Embroidery at Manchester Polytechnic during the early 1990’s and has continued to practice and exhibit textiles ever since.   Her love of patchwork and quilting techniques combined with found objects and memories inspire her to create. Teaching and making textiles for over 30 years, she currently works at her home studio in Kenilworth, … Continue reading quilted collage with Maria Thomas 20th April 2024

  Helen Hallows is a restless landscape artist who wishes that every day could be spent making. Reluctant to limit herself, her art crosses genres and she works with paint, textiles, and more recently ceramics. Known for her landscapes, these have moved towards abstraction where she enjoys the combinations of textures and marks to express … Continue reading everything all at once with Helen Hallows 27 April 2024 – fully booked, please e-mail to be added to waiting list

  Sally studied Art, Design and Business Studies at Trent College and Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She has spent many years sketching and painting her local Lincolnshire landscape. “I see the landscapes in vivid shades and I want to share my rose-tinted glasses with the viewer. I first depict the subject in … Continue reading “Times 16” A Framed Landscape Story with Sally Kheng – 28 April 2024 – fully booked, email to be added to waiting list

  The Artist “I am a textile, collage, assemblage and book artist and I work mainly with found objects, old papers and photographs. I’m never happier than when I’m wandering around a flea market, picking up bits of ephemera and working out how to use them in my art. I like to create stories from … Continue reading Altered Photograph Artworks with Jane Chipp – 4th May 2024

  The Artist “I am a textile, collage, assemblage and book artist and I work mainly with found objects, old papers and photographs. I’m never happier than when I’m wandering around a flea market, picking up bits of ephemera and working out how to use them in my art. I like to create stories from … Continue reading Enfolded Memories with Jane Chipp – 5th May 2024

  The Artist “I am a textile, collage, assemblage and book artist and I work mainly with found objects, old papers and photographs. I’m never happier than when I’m wandering around a flea market, picking up bits of ephemera and working out how to use them in my art. I like to create stories from … Continue reading The Lacemakers with Jane Chipp – 6th May 2024

The Artist UK based textile artist Anne Kelly is an award-winning artist, author and tutor. Her multi-layered and densely stitched textiles have been described as ‘small worlds’. Trained in Canada and at Goldsmiths College in London, she creates wall hangings and objects using a mixture of mixed media collage and hand and machine embroidery. Her … Continue reading Nature Memory Box with Anne Kelly – 18th & 19th May 2024

  The Artist Priscilla Edwards began creating sculptural textiles while studying embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University during the 1990’s. It was here she was encouraged to nurture her love of found materials and transform the lost and overlooked into arresting works of art. These charming yet slightly dark fairy-tale like sculptures transcend the familiar qualities … Continue reading Sculptural Textile Art Workshop with Priscilla Edwards – 8th June 2024

The Artist “I create bespoke textiles mixing media and building up tactile delicate surfaces. I work and rework my pieces with paint, dyes, bleach and ink, burning and layering until finishing it with hand stitch. I find beauty in flaky walls, overgrown buildings and encrusted surfaces; this is something I like to recreate in my … Continue reading Textile Surfaces with Emily Notman – 6th July 2024

Ann Povey completed a BA in Contemporary Crafts in 1999 and then started working for the University of Lincoln as Senior Technician for glass, ceramics and metalwork in 2000. While there she gained an MA in Design Crafts. She retired from the University in 2018 and now works full time in her garden studio in … Continue reading Assemblage with Ann Povey – 7th July 2024

  The artist “My works combine wire and thread to create intricate and delicate two dimensional and three-dimensional works reflecting observations of nature. The inspiration stems from the love of natural forms in which I look for shapes, textures, colours, within what might be a hedge row or a motorway verge, recording the small and … Continue reading natural collection with Liz cooksey 27 and 28 July 2024

The Artist Eve is a Lincolnshire based Felt Artist and has been working with wool for over 17 years. She uses a variety of wet and needle felting techniques to create her art, and is inspired by the countryside and her wacky brain.  “I love exploring texture and colour when I am creating a piece, … Continue reading Wet Felted Art scarf with Eve Marshall 7th September 2024

Rachael is an experimental textile and mixed media artist living in West Yorkshire, England and loves bringing together materials in the chase of an idea.  All this leads her to make one-off pieces or very small series.  “The natural world is a constant source of enchantment and I also have a few preoccupations such as … Continue reading Re-imagined with Rachael Singleton 21 & 22 September 2024