Workshops
and Courses 2008
Saturday
29th March
Living Willow. Tutor Amy Ralph
10.30 - 12.30pm Cost £20
Come and have a go, learn to plant, weave & make beautiful living
arbours, tunnels and natural screens. Guidance & instructions to take
home so you can create your own living archways and fences.
Monday 31st
March & 29th September
Natural
Baskets. Tutor Andy Southwell 10 - 5pm Cost £40
Max 7 materials included.
Relax and enjoy working with natural willow. Andy is a great tutor and
you will achieve a beautifully handmade basket. Please bring lunch.
Sat 15th March
& 6th Dec
Flowers
for you! Tutor Sylvia Dunsdon Buttonholes 10-2pm £25
Christmas 10-4pm £35. Both inc. lunch.
Small charge for materials used.
Learn to be creative with the help of Sylvia. Please bring along flowers
and foliage. 2 workshops – Buttonholes & hand-tied posy workshop
and Festive flowers, new ideas to impress your friends for Christmas!
Sat 12th April
& 27th Sept
Willow
Sculptures for the Garden. Tutor
Fiona Hingson Cost £35 Max 12 materials
included. Lunch can be provided additional £5.
This workshop is always popular so book early. Come and make an exciting
sculpture to take home, hopefully it will fit in the car! It can be a
bird or beastie, tepee, or anything you fancy.
Monday
1st
September & 8th September
Painting and Sketching Days. Tutor Ann Gray 10 - 4pm
Cost £35 Lunch can be provided additional £5.
A relaxing and enjoyable day out for artists of all abilities, each
artist will be encouraged to work at his or her own pace and in their own
style. Beginners can be sure to receive individual help in overcoming
initial anxieties and will produce a first painting.
New
Felt Making and Nuno scaves. Tutor Dennie Rose
1.Sat 19th
April 2.7th
June 3.Sat
8th November 10 - 4.30pm Cost £35 Max 10
Small charge for materials used.
Felting making is fun! Be guided by Dennie and you’ll be amazed at what
you can make! 3 new workshops: 1. Felt making & landscapes with
fibres 2. Beautiful Nuno felting & silk chiffon scarves 3. Felt &
beaded flowers.
Sat &
Sun 5th & 6th April and
Sat & Sun 10th & 11th May plus
4th and 5th October
Rustic
Hazelwood Furniture.Tutor
Peter Moors 10 - 5pm Cost £80 Max 7 Materials £15 approx.Please
bring lunch.
Try your hand at furniture making and be inspired and guided by
green woodman and tutor Peter. This is a two-day workshop. Make your own
unique garden furniture, its well worth the effort!
Saturday
28th June -New date
Jewellery - Wire and
Bead Scribble! Tutor Fran Griffith. 10-4pm Cost £35 small charge for
beads. Max 12 Lunch included.
Fran is a lovely tutor and has a wonderful array of bead and ideas.
Experiment with coloured wires and sparkling crystals & light
catching glass beads. Suit both beginners & experienced beaders.
Workshop
Feedback
2008 -
23rd
February
10
eager looking ladies arrived for Rag Rugging Workshop and gathered around
the large dining table. Led and guided by expert textile tutor Angela
Axeby. They were shown wonderfully unique samples woven by Angela
herself and taught techniques to weave old defunct garments into
interesting and useable rugs.
Colourful assorted pieces of materials adorned the tables, with
bits all over the floor!
There was a real community atmosphere and the opportunity to meet
new people and exchanges news and views while rag-rugging.
It was busy and buzzy with the ladies all working extremely hard,
they enjoyed a break for a nice home cooked lunch and then all completed
their starter rug.
When these were all put together they achieved a super colourful
carpet and we hope everyone went home happy and will be inspired to do
more. Pauline
29th
February
Hi
Pauline,Just to let you know I'm the proud owner of a willow
dome(started off as a tee pee!) constructed last weekend, all my
own work! The kids love it, am hoping it will start to sprout soon, Best
wishes Lisa
15th
March
We
spent a very wet and windy Saturday making wedding buttonholes around the
kitchen table by the warmth of the aga. Lots of wedding talk and
with the helpful guidance from tutor Sylvia we made a wonderful variety
corsage to brighten any wedding outfit. Midday cooked brunch
followed with a demonstration of how to make beautiful hand-tied posies which
made wonderful Easter gifts. This was a small friendly group and a
very productive day was had by all. So at the next wedding, no
excuses, hand-made buttonholes!
Creative
felt-making
Just a note to
thank you and John for providing lovely food, setting and atmosphere for
the day, it was great. Kind regards, Chris
Willow
Sculptures for the garden
Thank you for a lovely day
yesterday; we had a super journey home and hey - Dilys and Dennis look
great on the lawn! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and actually
feel chuffed to bits with our achievement. Pauline & Peter.
We had a
wonderful day thank you. Attitude the swan now guards my back
garden. Jackie
Rustic
Hazelwood Furniture
Review - at last! Pauline - just to let you know what an
enjoyable weekend the 'rustic hazelwood furniture has been'. With expert
tuition from Peter I have made the most exquisite 2-seater garden bench,
which is already the talk of the village - much admired by friends and
neighbours. In fact three of them now want to do the same course - so
please can you ask Peter to do another one in the autumn. I'd like to do
it again too and make something else!
I've done five of your workshops now and each one has been really good;
all the tutors have been first class and I've learnt some brilliant new
skills. Highway Farm is such a friendly, welcoming place - I'd
recommend it to anyone! Jill Turner
Creative Appliqué
£45pp
At the home of Willemein Stevens. www.creativeapplique.com
Why not get a party together and let me arrange your tutor and accommodation?
Try Tutored Wine Tasting with Andrew Kindness, ceramics at Tony's
studio, private guided fossil walks or fishing lessons with Jim
Copplestone at £15 per hour or £20 for doubles, age 5+ |
From Jill Innis: "Just a note to say thanks for such a lovely weekend. I thought the idea of an art package with bed and breakfast was wonderful - and would be grateful if you could let me know when you are having another one. I just feel the package would be of interest to any one interested in art as its basically a short stay - you have two nights away - and several sessions of art tuition as well as supper with you, John and Michael which all helped to make it special. I really enjoyed my time with Michael - just thought he was inspiring, just what you need when you are trying to paint. Anywhere I go where I come into contact with other art people I will spread the word and give out your cards where possible."
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Michael
likes to work and paint outdoors and offers stimulating teaching
sessions. His dramatic seascapes & landscapes have become
much sought after, they capture the very essence of the forces of
nature. In addition he has gained a reputation as a controversial
prize winning “sculptor”; his work containing every kind of
detritus found on local beaches. 
Ann
grew up in rural Kent, as a child she loved to study nature and
illustrated stories about animals. She now tutors in watercolour
& drawing technique, enjoys painting & sketching on
location and works as a Natural History Artist in Uplyme.