Workshops
and Courses 2009
At a glance……………….
28th February Rag Rugs - Tania
Cash
8th March BIG BREAKFAST at Highway Farm for Cancer Research 9-1pm
Please join us for a full
Highway Farm Breakfast or for the walkers, bacon baps to go!
12th March A Day in the life of
an AGA. Cooking the aga way! Olivia Archer
14th& 15th March Hazelwood
Garden Furniture – Peter Moors
28th March Wire and beaded
Scribble Bangles – Fran Griffith
29th March Living willow Arbours
Amy Ralph, morning
4th April Make a willow hanging
basket, and plant it. Kate Bromfield
18th April Gypsy hedgerow
baskets& woven table mats Petra Hughes
20th April Art Day, watercolours
and sketching Ann Gray
24th April Create beautiful wedding
buttonholes Sylvia Dunsdon
1st May Baskets made the
traditional way Andy Southwell
2ndMay Willow sculptures, birds
and beasties! Andy Southwell
2nd May Felt
bags, creative, stylist and unique. No sewing required Dennie Rose
8th May Willow garden supports
and tepees Kate Bromfield morning
16th May Art Day, watercolours
and sketching Ann Gray
17th May Gypsy hedgerow baskets
& woven table mats Petra Hughes
20th May Pottery with the Symondsbury Potters
4th
June Intro to
Felt-making/create fibre landscapes Dennie Rose
20th & 21st June WOMENS ART
FESTIVAL IN BRIDPORT
25th June A Day in the life of an
AGA. Cooking the Aga way! Olivia Archer
27th June Fairy Sculptures for
the garden – Tania Cash
17th July Create beautiful wedding
buttonholes and hand-tied posies. Sylvia Dunsdon
18th & 19th July Hazelwood
Garden Furniture – Peter Moors
30th
July Fabulous Nuno – Floaty
felt & chiffon scarves Dennie Rose
8th August Gypsy Baskets Petra
Hughes
15th August Silk Bowls &
Candles morning, plus soap-making in the afternoon Tania Cash
21st & 22nd August Hazelwood
Garden Furniture – Peter Moors
22nd August Wire and beaded
necklaces Fran Griffith
29th-31st August BRIDPORT OPEN
STUDIOS 2009
12th
Sept New- Polymer clay
Jewellery - Beautiful brooches and earrings
25th Sept Willow sculptures,
birds and beasties! – Andy Southwell
26th Sept Baskets made the
traditional way – Andy Southwell
14th Oct A day in the life of an AGA. Cooking the Aga
way! Olivia Archer
18th Nov Christmas with an AGA. Festive foodie flair with
Olivia Archer
21st Nov Bath Bombs, Bath melts
and lip balms – Tania Cash
27th & 28th Nov Free
workshop - Christmas wreaths.
TBA AGA - Cooking for Christmas
The Workshop days begin with
coffee and biscuits on arrival. If you would like a freshly prepared
lunch please order when booking, additional £5. Payment due when
booking. Please ring if you have any questions or would like to book.
New AGA Courses -A Day in the
life of an AGA! tutor Olivia Archer
Thursday 12th March &
Thursday 25th June. Wed 14th Oct and Christmas Day Wed 18th Nov. 10.30 – 3pm
Olivia will take you through a
whole day of cooking, showing the basics of Aga cookery and how to make
the most out of cooking and living with Aga! Yummy tasters, lunch
and a glass of wine included. £40
WORKSHOPS WORKING with
WILLOW. Such a wonderful local resource & lots of ideas.
Living Willow tutor Amy Ralph
Sunday 29th March 10.30-12.30
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. £20
Make a hanging basket, and then
plant it. tutor Kate Bromfield
Saturday 4th April 10.30-2.30
Homemade willow baskets to
decorate your home, under guidance from Kate, our local plants woman.
£35 materials and plants
included.
Traditional Basket Weaving
WILLOW
WEEKEND
tutor Andy Southwell
Friday 1st May 10.30 – 5pm
Saturday 26th September 10.30-
5pm
Relax and enjoy working with
natural willow. Andy is a great tutor and you will achieve a beautifully
handmade basket. £45 materials incl.
Willow Sculptures for the Garden
tutor Andy Southwell
Saturday 2nd May 10.30 – 4.30pm
Friday 25th September
10.30-4.30pm
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 or
anything you fancy. £38 materials incl.
Why make it a workshop weekend
with Andy? *Free lunches if you sign up for Baskets & Sculptures
Tepees and plant supports for
your garden tutor Kate Bromfield
Friday 8th May 10 – 1pm
Learn to make willow structures
to support your plants with the help of Kate, garden designer.
£30 materials incl.
Hedgerow baskets tutor Petra
Hughes
Saturday 18th April, Sunday 17th
May & Saturday 8th August 10.30- 4pm
Make unique and beautiful Gypsy
baskets made from natural materials gathered from the hedges woven with
garden climbers. Also learn how weave tablemats and nests from rushes.
Suitable for all ages. £35
materials incl.
Rustic Hazelwood Furniture tutor
Peter Moors
14th & 15th March, 18th
& 19th July and 21st & 22nd August 10-4.30
This is a two-day workshop. Try
your hand at furniture making and be inspired and guided by green
woodman and tutor Peter. Make your own unique garden furniture, its well
worth the effort! Please sign up early, as there is a waiting list! £80
plus approx £15 for wood used.
CRAFTY DAY COURSES with
talented tutors. Come on, anyone can do it!
Rag-Rug
and
more Arty Crafty with
tutor Tania Cash
Saturday 28th Feb. 10.30am –4.30pm
RAG RUGS
Have you ever fancied having a go
at rugging? Well now’s your chance! Create a small rug or wall
hanging, traditional technique, can be learnt in a day. £35 materials
incl. Option to buy hook.
Saturday 27th June 10.30- 4.30pm Fairy
Sculptures for the garden
And now for something different!
Sculpt a figure, a fairy, angel or even a tribal figure,
Weatherproof, so your finished
creation can take pride of place inside or out. No experience necessary.
£35 incl. materials.
Saturday 15th August 10.30-4.30pm
Silk
bowls/candles/Soap making in afternoon
Create 2 beautiful bowls
using a mix of silk fibres, let your imagination run wild. Then go on to
surface decoration of candles using a variety of mediums and conclude
the day making gorgeous soaps using natural ingredients. A truly
indulgent day! £20 morning / £20 afternoon.*free
lunch if do both.
Saturday 21st November
10.30-4.30pm Bath Bombs/Bath Melts & Lip
Balms,
Christmas
ideas!
Using natural products e.g. shea
butter, coconut oil, rose petals, cocoa butter & gorgeous essential
oils, Bath treats for Christmas presents for those in need of a little
pampering! £20 morning/ £20 afternoon.
*Free lunch included if you do
both sessions. Materials included.
Beaded Jewellery tutor Fran
Griffith
For all abilities, £35 plus
charge for beads used
Saturday 28th March 10.30- 4.30pm
Wire
and beaded Scribble Bangles
Experiment with coloured wires,
sparkling crystals & light catching glass beads! Make at least one
original bracelet. Looks rather like scribble with ink blobs!
Saturday 22nd August 10.30-
4.30pm . Quick
& easy bracelets & necklaces
Make in a day 2 new designs of
Fran’s, Fondant Fruits & Juicy Berries & Liquorice
Allsorts!
These pieces are worked with
needle & thread. £35 plus charge for beads used.
Fran can change this workshop to
the jewellery of your choice?
Felt-Making
and
some fantastic new ideas from….
tutor Dennie Rose
£35 plus small charge for
materials
Saturday 2nd
May 10.30-4.30pm Felt bags, creative,
stylist and unique.
During the day we will make a
durable seamless shoulder bag, incorporating the revealing Stitch‘n’Slash
technique. No sewing required.
Thursday 4th
June 10.30-4.30pm Introduction to
Felt-making
This therapeutic day experience
the ancient techniques of creating fabric from fleece that can be from
cobweb to carpet quality. ‘Painting with Fibres’ technique,
used to create a beautiful wall hanging.
Thursday 30th
July 10.30-4.30pm Fabulous Nuno –
Floaty felt & chiffon scarves
A real felting treat with Dennie.
Incorporating fibres into chiffon, create desirable individual scarves,
and to complete the day stitch beautiful beads into the scarves for
embellishment.
Saturday 12th Sept
10.30-4.30pm Polymer
clay Jewellery –hand-made beads
Another creative day where you
will learn how to use this amazing medium. Make the most beautiful
hand-made beads and create a very special piece of jewellery,
individually designed, brooch or pendant
Flowers Arranging- Anyone can!
tutor Sylvia Dunsdon
24th April 10.30 - 3.30pm
~Flower arranging
workshop~Beautiful wedding buttonholes & tied-posies.~Flowers for
Xmas~
We can offer half day or full day
courses with Sylvia, please ask if interested.
Painting and Sketching Days tutor
Ann Gray
Monday 20th April & Saturday
16th May 10.30-4.30pm
A relaxing and enjoyable day out
for all, each artist will be encouraged to work at his or her own pace
and in their own style. Beginners welcome, you will receive individual
help in overcoming initial anxieties
£40. Easy to arrange other dates
with Ann, small groups 3-5.
Pottery classes
with
The Symondsbury Potters
Wednesday 20th May 2.30 - 4.30pm
Afternoon with Miles Bell and Fenella at the Symondsbury Pot Shop.
It's £25pp. Small group, you get 2 tutors and try your hand at
different pots and the potters wheel too! I think there is a small
amount to pay for the clay used. Miles then fires and finishes your pots
and will ring when ready to collect. I can arrange this workshop
for 2-5. Come in a group, book early if you need accommodation.
Flowers Arranging- Anyone can!
tutor Sylvia Dunsdon
17th July 12noon - 5pm £35
~Flower arranging
workshop~Beautiful wedding buttonholes & tied-posies.~Flowers for
Christmas~
Very suitable for wedding parties, Mother of the bride, especially!
Coarse
Fishing Lessons
tutor Jim Copplestone
Available on our lakes.Max 2
people,£15 per hr or £20 for doubles, age 5+ and adults too!
FREE WORKSHOP - Christmas Wreaths
27th & 28th November 10-2pm. A
date for your diary!
Learn how to make beautiful
Christmas wreaths to brighten up your door, or just come and join in the
fun! Mince pies, coffee and carols to get you in the mood, use the space
to make a mess!
The idea is that you make one
wreath to take home, and another one for me to sell for charity.
Small charge for ring and moss,
please bring greenery and xmassy bits and bobs to add.
Workshop
Feedback
Rag Rugs
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
Willow
Sculptures
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
Floral
buttonholes and hand tied posies
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
Basket-making
Thanks Pauline for arranging
the day and for the delicious lunch. I thoroughly enjoyed the
day and I think my husband was 'impressed' with the results of my
efforts. Andy is a good tutor and I think the group kept
him busy all day - I hope he was not too exhausted. It
must be tiring when seven people are working on various
projects and working at different speeds. Do thank him as it
was an excellent day.
I think everyone got
something out of the course; it is all too easy to stay within
ones comfort zone, but to step outside that is stimulating and
rewarding in so many ways. Maggie

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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