The studio will have been thoroughly cleaned beforehand and surfaces and handles will be cleaned throughout the day. The amount of students has been lowered to enable everyone to have a large working area with plenty of social distance. At each work station there will be a create with basic materials i.e. scissors, needles etc. … Continue reading How Hope & Elvis has adapted to Covid

As the title suggests, these sessions are a day to do whatever, a day for you. Bring along something you are working on or that piece of work you started and is now in a drawer somewhere waiting to be finished (and lets be honest we all have a few of those!) Between 10am & … Continue reading “Whatever Wednesdays” – 16th, 30th June, 14th, 21st July (more dates to be added)

*due to the popularity of this workshop, it will not be bookable online the workshop places will be determined by a ballot, please email louise@hopeandelvis.com before the 13th Nov, include which dates you would prefer and number of place (max 2) places will be drawn at random on the 14th November* About Mrs Bertimus, first … Continue reading Mrs B’s Mixed Media Weekender 22nd & 23rd May or 6th & 7th November 2021 – SOLD OUT email bookings@hopeandelvis.com to be added to waitlist

Hope and Elvis would not be the same without Jessies wonderful workshops , such a wonderfully inspiring tutor, it never fails to produce wonderful textile pieces to treasure. This most favourite and popular workshop will focus and explore Jessie’s signature style of hand embroidery combined with her unique approach to applique and patchwork Jessie will … Continue reading Embroidered and Appliqued illustrations with Jessie Chorley – 5th June 2021-SOLD OUT

This workshop will focus and explore Jessie’s signature style of hand embroidery combined with her unique approach to applique and patchwork as she delicately and sympathetically helps you to create embellishment on pre-loved items of clothing Jessie will show you how she uses pre—worn items of clothing as her canvases as she illustrates them with … Continue reading Embroidered and Applique Story Garments with Jessie Chorley 6th June 2021

  I am Delighted to welcome Claire back to Hope & Elvis this Year,  this workshop is perfectly timed in light of the pandemic, there is no better time to explore you creativity and well being.   This three-day Stitch Retreat will explore a variety of ‘slow’ textile techniques using traditional skills as inspiration. Old … Continue reading Stitch Retreat with Claire Wellesley-Smith 12th , 13th & 14th June 2021- SOLD OUT

Alice’s process-led practice is based on recording personal experience of landscape. She works with natural fibres and gathered materials, employing natural dye techniques, print, stitch and weave in different combinations to create surfaces and structures. Alice takes an experimental approach to found items, learning about their properties, boundaries and possibilities through the making process. Alice … Continue reading Botanical Books with Alice Fox – 19th & 20th June 2021

Emily Jo Gibbs is a British Artist who over the last two decades has established an international reputation for her delicate textiles. Emily’s latest body of portrait work The Value of Making depicts various making disciplines through to-scale representations of tools; hand-stitched exquisite still life portraits in a collage of silk organza. Emily made these … Continue reading Illustrative Pictures Working with Silk Organza – Emily Jo Gibbs 26th & 27th June 2021

  Helaina is a designer maker, based in West Yorkshire, creating 2D and 3D wirework. Her work is inspired for her love of tea and the rituals around tea drinking and is rooted in the elegance of the past, particularly the Edwardian era. Using old sepia photographs she creates pen and ink drawings that are … Continue reading Wire Work with Helaina Sharpley 10th July 2021 – *NEW DATE ADDED 11th July 2021

About Richard McVetis My practice is deeply rooted in process and hand embroidery. I record time and space through multiples of dots, lines, and crosses. These meticulously rendered stitches reflect a preoccupation with the repetitive nature of a process, exploring the subtle differences that emerge through ritualistic and habitual making. The inscribed stitches mark the … Continue reading Stitch with Richard McVetis – 3rd July 2021

About Richard McVetis My practice is deeply rooted in process and hand embroidery. I record time and space through multiples of dots, lines, and crosses. These meticulously rendered stitches reflect a preoccupation with the repetitive nature of a process, exploring the subtle differences that emerge through ritualistic and habitual making. The inscribed stitches mark the … Continue reading Stitch with Richard McVetis – 4th July 2021

I can’t tell what a pleasure it is to be welcoming Jo to Hope and Elvis, I have long been a fan of Jo’s beautiful work and the stories behind the pieces. i am lucky to have a stitched mouse in the studio and also 2 stitched portraits that Jo kindly lent to us for … Continue reading Stitched Animal Portraits with Jo Smith – 17th July 2021

I can’t tell what a pleasure it is to be welcoming Jo to Hope and Elvis, I have long been a fan of Jo’s beautiful work and the stories behind the pieces. i am lucky to have a stitched mouse in the studio and also 2 stitched portraits that Jo kindly lent to us for … Continue reading Wire & Stitch Sculpture with Jo Smith – 18th July 2021

about Leah Leah always brings a little bit of magic & sunshine! Leah Halliday is a designer, educator and social entrepreneur and has been working in the creative industry for over 20 years. She lovingly creates and designs a small collection of handmade gifts, accessories, homewares, paper goods, embroidery designs and surface patterns that combines … Continue reading Hand Embroidery with Leah Halliday – 24th July 2021

I am a practicing textile artist and experienced tutor, having taught for over 15 years in the university sector, as well as teaching adult workshops and summer schools in a variety of venues worldwide. My fascination with historical textiles and experience of my own textile practice underpins my teaching.Workshops typically include a blend of practical … Continue reading Inspiration from Historical Textiles inc Cyanotype with Hannah Lamb 21st & 22nd August 2021 – SOLD OUT email bookings@hopeandelvis.com to be added to waitlist

Anne is an award winning textile artist, author and tutor based in the UK, exhibiting and teaching internationally. Her three books for Batsford represent her project and collaborative work. Anne’s heavily embroidered fabric collages are reminiscent of tapestry work and her signature stitching technique is applied to a variety of surfaces. She uses mixed media … Continue reading Travels in Textiles with Anne Kelly – 4th & 5th September 2021 SOLD OUT

About Matthew Harris Matthew Harris is a graduate of the textile course at Goldsmiths College and has been working with textiles since 2000, having for the previous ten years made and exhibited drawings and works on paper. He has shown in a number of group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.K, Ireland and Japan. Matthew … Continue reading TEXT-ile with Matthew Harris

About Bonner Leather With backgrounds in sculpture and librarianship we established our workshop in 2014 and launched Bonner Leather Studio at the Contemporary Craft Festival in 2015; and currently work out of our studio 4 miles north of Cirencester. Largely self taught we use traditional leather working techniques and hand tools to fashion our work. … Continue reading Introduction to Leather with Bonner Leather – 17th,18th & 19th September 2021

this workshop is now full – to be added to the waitlist please email bookings@hopeandelvis.com About Liz Cooksey 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 … Continue reading Mixed Media Wire Workshop with Liz Cooksey – 1 day – 24th September 2021- FULL

About Liz Cooksey 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 … Continue reading Mixed Media Wire Workshop with Liz Cooksey – 2 day – 25th & 26th September 2021

About Caroline Bartlett As well as in Europe and the UK, Caroline has exhibited in Australia, Japan, Uruguay, China and the USA. Examples of work can be seen in various public collections including those of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Crafts Council. She is a member of the 62 … Continue reading Between the folds- mark, fold and manipulate with Caroline Bartlett -1st , 2nd & 3rd October 21

About Sue Brown Sue Brown is an artist who uses printmaking and mixed media to tell stories. Inspired by process as much as nature, her work springs from the pages of sketchbooks, and develops carefully researched themes, exploring and developing them on paper and textiles. Sue has been an artist for over 20 years and … Continue reading Sketch Book Master Class with Print Maker Sue Brown – 8th , 9th & 10th October 2021

About Mandy Pattullo As always its a joy to welcome back Mandy Pattullo to Hope & Elvis , Mandy had recently had a new book published by Batsford books “Textiles Transformed” if you haven’t already got it go get it its wonderful! trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an … Continue reading Dolls with Mandy Pattullo – 15th or 16th October 2021

About Mandy Pattullo As always its a joy to welcome back Mandy Pattullo to Hope & Elvis , Mandy has recently had a new book published by Batsford books “Textiles Transformed” if you haven’t already got it go get it its wonderful! trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an … Continue reading Working in Wool with Mandy Pattullo – 17th October 2021

about Leah A Hope & Elvis line up would not be compete without Leah’s Angels! Leah Halliday is a designer, educator and social entrepreneur and has been working in the creative industry for over 20 years. She lovingly creates and designs a small collection of handmade gifts, accessories, homewares, paper goods, embroidery designs and surface … Continue reading Angels with Leah Halliday 23rd or 24th October 2021

Alice’s process-led practice is based on recording personal experience of landscape. She works with natural fibres and gathered materials, employing natural dye techniques, print, stitch and weave in different combinations to create surfaces and structures. Alice takes an experimental approach to found items, learning about their properties, boundaries and possibilities through the making process. Alice … Continue reading Collect & Stitch : Stitch with Found and Gathered Materials with Alice Fox,13th & 14th November 2021

Fabric Recipes Jayne Emerson has been creating experimental textile designs for over twenty years. Her work has sold to clients ranging from Chanel and Dior to household names including John Lewis and Boden. *(She has also written six craft books and taught Kirstie Allsopp how to needle felt on the telly!) Fabric Recipes In this … Continue reading Fabric Recipes with Jayne Emerson – 21st November 2021 – SOLD OUT- email bookings@hopeandelvis.com to be added to waitlist

About Rosie James Rosie James is a Textile Artist living and working in Kent, UK. She has a BA Hons Textiles degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design and an MA in Textiles from Goldsmith College London. Rosie started off with a small business making dyed and screen printed fabrics, scarves, ties, cushions etc, … Continue reading Drawing with Stitch with Rosie James – 4th & 5th December 2021

Cas Homes studied in Fine Art, Maidstone College of Art (UCA) in the eighties before a further study in Japanese art, textiles and paper making in Japan under a Japan Foundation Fellowship and a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship. S. Cas has also published work including; Textile Landscape, The Found Object in Textile Art, Stitch Stories, … Continue reading Cloth and Shadows with Cas Holmes 23rd & 24th April 2022

Cas Homes studied in Fine Art, Maidstone College of Art (UCA) in the eighties before a further study in Japanese art, textiles and paper making in Japan under a Japan Foundation Fellowship and a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship. S. Cas has also published work including; Textile Landscape, The Found Object in Textile Art, Stitch Stories, … Continue reading Layers, Lines and Images: Improvised Book forms with Cas Holmes – 25th & 26th April 2022

A Hope and Elvis day is a great experience, set in a large inspirational studio full of warmth, materials and great food. An ideal gift for any occasion. Hope and Elvis gift vouchers can be used as part or full payment depending on the chosen workshop. To redeem your gift voucher simply choose your workshop … Continue reading Workshop Gift Voucher