In this calming and creative Sunday morning workshop, Leanda will take you step by step through a brush lettering alphabet - providing a full toolkit to support your studies - culminating in creating your own brush lettered artwork to take home at the end of the session.

You'll begin by learning practice strokes and getting a feel for  working with a brush pen, before moving on to learning both lower and uppercase letter-forms.  Then we'll be putting them together to make words before finally writing out a phrase.

In this calming and creative Sunday morning workshop, Leanda will take you step by step through a brush lettering alphabet - providing a full toolkit to support your studies - culminating in creating your own brush lettered artwork to take home at the end of the session.

You'll begin by learning practice strokes and getting a feel for working with a brush pen, before moving on to learning both lower and uppercase letter-forms. Then we'll be putting them together to make words before finally writing out a phrase.

Throw away you cutting tools!

This fab day course teaches you how to create beautiful, almost painterly marks on lino, smooth indents or rugged textures with a lot less elbow grease than traditional cutting tools and a range of NEW opportunities to experiment with the surface of a lino block.

Course Date: Sunday 5th April 2020

Course level: Beginners and Explorers!

Join us for a taste of traditional turkish marbling with a modern twist as we explore surface and form in this fun beginners workshop. You’ll start by learning how to create marbled prints on paper before designing your own pattern to adorn a fresh and contemporary concrete pot! A great mothers day gift idea!

By the end of the workshop you’ll have produced multiple prints on paper as well as a marbled pot - with a little plant included - all for you to take home with you at the end of the day!

This unique masterclass allows you access to one of our true local talents. Jane will introduce you to some of her work and her working methods using the wet-on-wet watercolour technique.

You will receive practical guidance on how to wet your paper, add colour, subtract certain areas - working with artist quality pigments and watching them spread loosely across the page.

Class date: Sunday 8th December 2019

Class Time: 10:30 to 13:00 

Class Level: Beginners

Festive Mono-Printing Workshop & Seasonal Lunch

Date: Friday 6th December 2019

Time: 10.30am - 1pm

Location: The Salt Box, Priory Farm Estate, Nutfield RH1 4EJ

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Woodland Winter Wreath Making Workshop

This season we’ve teamed up with Renee Canter (aka The Girl Who Gardens) to design seasonal Autumn and Winter Wreath Making workshops that reflect the beauty that each season brings and are a little kinder to nature too. Traditional wreaths, although stunning and super popular, are by nature not particularly eco-friendly - see Renee’s Environmental Wreath Manifesto here for more.

We are so lucky to live in an area where woodland is abundant and there is so much we can gather from the forest floor to inspire our wreath-making this winter. As with our hedgerow wreaths we’ll be taking a more eco-friendly approach to the traditional wreath - creating a moss and wire base to adorn with sustainably foraged materials.

Workshop Time: 19:30 to 21:30

In this calming and creative Sunday morning workshop, Leanda will take you step by step through a brush lettering alphabet - providing a full toolkit to support your studies - culminating in creating your own brush lettered artwork to take home at the end of the session.

You'll begin by learning practice strokes and getting a feel for  working with a brush pen, before moving on to learning both lower and uppercase letter-forms.  Then we'll be putting them together to make words before finally writing out a phrase.

In this calming and creative Sunday morning workshop, Leanda will take you step by step through a brush lettering alphabet - providing a full toolkit to support your studies - culminating in creating your own brush lettered artwork to take home at the end of the session.

You'll begin by learning practice strokes and getting a feel for  working with a brush pen, before moving on to learning both lower and uppercase letter-forms.  Then we'll be putting them together to make words before finally writing out a phrase.

Autumn Botanical Pen & Wash Workshop & Seasonal Lunch

Date: Friday 8th November 2019

Time: 10.30am - 2pm

Workshop Location: The Salt Box, Priory Farm Estate, RH1 4EJ

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Parian Clay Christmas Decorations

Join the lovely Jo Hannah Ceramics for a simply beautiful festive Friday night in the studio and create stunning Parian Clay Decorations to adorn your tree.

Parian is type of porcelain which when high fired has the appearance of white marble. It has a translucent quality enabling light to shine through, making it the ideal material to hang from your illuminated Christmas tree!

Drawing is simply taking a line for a walk - Paul Klee

Does it seem that simple to you? If drawing feels like a chore and you’d like to learn more about how to loosen up your line, let it flow with ease and glow with light and shadow then our learn to draw course is just what you need! We’ve designed a 6 week course with absolute beginners in mind that takes you gently through the core concepts of drawing, teaching you the tricks that make putting marks to paper easy!

There are 5 key concepts that will help you to draw with accuracy.

Over this 6 week comprehensive course you’ll gain a full understanding of:

• Edges - All lines

• Spaces - The space between those lines

• Relationships - One shape in relation to another or proportion

• Light and Shadow - Understanding tonal scales

• Gestalt - Your own style

Throw away you cutting tools!

This fab day course teaches you how to create beautiful, almost painterly marks on lino, smooth indents or rugged textures with a lot less elbow grease than traditional cutting tools and a range of NEW opportunities to experiment with the surface of a lino block.

Course Date: Sunday 3rd November 2019

Course level: Beginners and Explorers!

Course Time: 10:30 am to 4:30 pm

Tutor: Paul Wye

Create a drawing or painting onto Aluminium foil using anything from sharpies, to vegetable oil, wd-40 and other household products. Paul will then demonstrate how to create a 'bite' in the plate working with Coca Cola.

After this you'll be able to ink up and create multiple prints from your hand-made Aluminium printing plate, exploring different colour combinations and experimenting with inking up and wiping down the plate in an amazing variety of ways! 

Zen drawing is all about using mindfulness to tune in to your surroundings and slowing down just enough to notice the change in light, texture or shapes that a landscape has to offer. In this super calming drawing workshop you’ll be encouraged to use mindful techniques to broaden your drawing vocabulary, exploring mark-making methods that will help you decode and depict your surroundings with ease.