An enjoyable and inspiring creative workshop with Helen Cooper in the beautiful setting of Stanton Guildhouse in their workshop. You will learn how to safely score, break & layer sheet and accessory glass to create a minimum of 3 fused glass items including a set of drink stirrers, tea light holders and a coaster. These [...]
Experience picture framing first hand and mix fun with a sense of achievement, taking away with you your own completed frame at the end of the workshop. A practical and enjoyable workshop for beginners run by framer and tutor, Mark Higgins, where principles and key tools will be first demonstrated – then you will try [...]
A spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]
Make your very own farmyard friends using lots of different sculpting techniques, with award-winning ceramicist, Ros Ingram. There will be an option to pay separately for kids’ finished animals to be fired for a small extra fee. Suitable for the smallest of hands – please bring an apron! Note: Parents or carers will need to [...]
This oil sketching workshop will be taking place in the beautiful surroundings of Stanton Guildhouse with far reaching views, and focuses on painting the local landscape with oils and palette knife, led by renowned Cotswold artist Rupert Aker. We will work outside if the weather is fine and explore how to sketch quickly with a [...]
Enjoy a morning of sculpting a ceramic Chicken in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Ros will guide you step by step to create and then decorate your Chicken. Your Chicken will be taken home by Ros to dry out before it is fired and returned to you. Please bring an apron. This event will be [...]
Broadway’s gardens have been the backdrop for artists, writers, actors and musicians for over a century, and continue this theme today. On this walking tour of two famous private gardens with Marion Mako, we shall hear about some of the stories behind those who created, inhabited and visited them, all looking their finest in June. [...]
Join us in the historic Russell House Gardens in Broadway, famously painted by John Singer Sargent in his masterpiece Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. This unique experience offers an hour-long time slot where you can observe four professional artists as they capture a scene featuring models dressed in the attire of Sargent's era. Stroll through the [...]
Spend the day experimenting with 3 different fabric printing techniques with Liske Johnson (BA Hons Textile Design) & Claire Lundy (BA Hons Printed Textiles) from Littleheath Barn Studio. This is the perfect introduction to printing, where you will create a selection of printed fabric samples over the day to use in future projects. The three [...]
During this workshop students will learn about design and construction of a contemporary still life including how to incorporate collage and pattern, techniques in acrylic paint, colour palette and mixing, and how to move away from reality. This workshop is aimed at all levels, although a bit of experience in using acrylic paints would be [...]
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