Spend the day creating a fabulous 3ft willow hare sculpture for the garden to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]
Our annual open art competition is open to any artist, in any medium including (but not restricted to) painting, drawing, pastels, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics & glass. Any artist from across the UK can enter, but we do have a separate prize for best entry from a local artist. We had 580 entries from [...]
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 [...]
Make your very own little clay person using lots of different sculpting techniques, with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram. There will be an option to pay separately for kids’ finished people to be fired for a small extra fee. Suitable for the smallest of hands - please bring an apron! Note: Parents or carers will need [...]
Enjoy a day of sculpting either a Highland or black and white Fresian cow in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Ros will guide you step by step to create and then decorate your characterful Cow! Your Cow will be taken home by Ros to dry out before it is fired – clay and firing of [...]
Spend the day creating a fabulous 3ft willow hare sculpture for the garden to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]
artBEAT is the opening 3 day weekend for the festival that showcases the work of some of Britain’s top artists, designers and artisans in the marquees on the village green in this idyllic Cotswold village. Throughout the weekend the marquees house talented artists, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, ceramicists, designer-makers and a host of traditional artisans demonstrating [...]
Spend the day making a life sized realistic little coal tit with master felter Agnese Davies, who created the much-loved Octopus that was in the finals of our 2023 annual art competition. First you will learn how to create very realistic fine bird feet using wire, wool and a few other materials. This is a [...]
Introducing the Prize Winners and Highly Commended finalists for our 2023 open art competition! We had a fantastic response with 476 entries from across the UK and the standard was exceptionally high. Thank you to everyone who entered. We are so grateful to our 7 judges who did a brilliant job. A huge thank [...]
Join us for this unique opportunity to tour Sculptor Rupert Till's private sculpture garden outside Winchcombe and hear him speak about his journey as an artist, his work with landscape designers and architects, as well as his experience of working on 12 award-winning show gardens at Chelsea and Hampton Court. Renowned for both his realistic [...]
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