OUR WORKSHOPS
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Art Workshops
Join us for a hands-on experience in creating art using many different mediums. Learn from our master artists and create your own masterpiece to take home with you. We cater for all levels.
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Craft Workshops
Create amazing masterpieces with our skilled instructors. Learn new techniques and take home your own unique masterpiece. Crafts are suitable for all levels especially beginners
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Art Events
We can arrange an event for a special occasion with one of our amazing artists. You can invite family and friends to your own Workshop. We will create a fun atmosphere for you all.
2025 PROGRAMME
We are very pleased to confirm some great artists will be joining us this year and we are providing a variety of art and craft workshops hopefully to suit everyone! We have tried to keep our prices as reasonable as possible and our early 2025 sale will enable some more savings.
We know your time is precious and you book with us in good faith but If we are unable to attain our minimum numbers we will have to cancel the workshop but will keep you informed so you can make alternative arrangements.
If you book and pay before end of February we will offer a
10% discount on all those workshops you book.
To book your favourite workshop email us at suewilliams021@aol.com
or
2025 Workshops
Saturday 1st March at Dutch Marketplace
Spring Scenes in Watercolour - Deana Kim Page
10am -1pm price £56 lunch included, suitable for all levels
Saturday 8th March at Little Berkhamsted
Have a Go at Modern Calligraphy - Jane Lappage
10am - 4pm price £80 includes all materials and lunch, suitable for all levels
Saturday 22nd March at Little Berkhamsted
Beautiful Breezy Spring Blossom in Watercolours - Nicky Hunter
10am - 4pm price £85 lunch included, some experience required
Saturday 5th April at Little Berkhamsted
Glass Fusion - Laura Brooks-Payne
10am -1pm price £65 no experience required
Saturday 3rd May at Little Berkhamsted
Candle Making - Anne Nudd
10am -1pm price £65 includes all materials, suitable for all levels
Sunday 11th May at Epping Golf Course
Hare in Acylics- Deana Kim Page
10am -1pm price £50 all materials included, suitable for all levels
Saturday 7th June at Little Berkhamsted
Highland Cow in Watercolours - Jake Winkle
10am - 4pm price £90 refreshments and lunch included, suitable for all levels
Sunday 6th July at Epping Golf Course
Pet Portraits in Acrylics - Deana Kim Page
10am - 1pm price £50 all materials and refreshments included suitable for all levels
Saturday 12th July at Little Berkhamsted
Mixed Media with Acrylics - Sera Knight
10-4pm price £85 lunch included, suitable for all levels
Saturday 26th July at little Berkhamsted
Lino Cutting and Printing - Jackie Devereux
10am - 4pm price £85 all materials and lunch included, suitable for all levels
Sunday 3rd August at Epping Golf Course
Landscape in Watercolours - Frank Walters
10am - 4pm price £90 includes lunch, suitable for all levels
Saturday 9th August at Dutch Marketplace
Flowers or Sculptures in Pastels - Deana Kim Page
10am -1pm price £56 all materials and lunch included, suitable for all levels
Saturday 20th September at Little Berkhamsted
Finches & Teasels in Watercolours - Nicky Hunter
10am - 4pm price £85 lunch included, some experience required
Sunday 21st September at Epping Golf Course
Mandala Dotting - Angelique Samadhi
10am -1pm price £50 all materials included, suitable for all levels
Sunday 12th October at Epping Golf Course
Gel Printing - Holly Casey
10am -1pm price £50 includes all materials suitable for all levels
Saturday 18th October at Little Berkhamsted
Glass Fusion - Laura Brooks-Payne
10am -1pm price £65 all materials included, suitable for all levels
Saturday 15th November at Little Berkhamsted
People and places in Watercolours - Jake Winkle
10am - 4pm price £90 lunch included, suitable for all levels
Wednesday 3rd December at Little Berkhamsted
Luxury Wreath Making - Lorraine Howard
7pm - 9.30pm price TBC, all materials, nibbles and mulled wine included, suitable for all levels
We will be adding more workshops and may have to alter some of the dates, so do keep an eye on our website.
Note:- All day workshops include 2 sessions and lunch
SPRING SCENES in WATERCOLOUR with DEANA KIM PAGE
Saturday 1st March
at The Dutch Marketplace
10am - 1pm
Join our inspirational tutor Deana as she takes us step by step through how to paint a delightful spring scene in watercolour. Enjoy Deana's imagination as she shows you some of her tricks of the trade! Perfect for beginners.
Our wonderful tutor Deana will show us how to create vibrant, exciting watercolour painting of spring flowers and scenes using the inspiration from the Dutch Marketplace. You will get to use masking fluid to create a fabulous effect using wet on wet techniques to design your masterpiece.
Deana will supply all painting materials and No experience is needed - this session is suitable for all levels.
Price £56 including all your materials, and lunch at The Dutch Café.
Numbers are limited so don’t delay in booking!
HAVE A GO AT
MODERN CALLIGRAPHY
with JANE LAPPAGE
Saturday 8th March 2025
at Little Berkhamsted
10am -4pm
Ever wondered how bold, beautiful, ornate lettering is created? Is it drawing - or is it writing? Come to our work workshop with calligraphy expert Jane Lappage and learn how to create those beautiful letters!
You will learn how to use the nib and gain the basics script skills. How to create the script using two different nibs and mediums and the advantage of this. Then you can have a go at design and layout looking at how to blend paints onto dark card to create a unique finished piece. Jane will support you at your own pace focusing on practice.
You will gain a new skill and take away not only the exemplar and your practice sheets but a designed blended work if you’re feeling confident enough.
This workshop is great for beginners.
Workshop runs from 10am-4pm. Price £80 includes all materials, refreshments and a 2 course lunch. Free parking.
You don't need to bring anything except your sense of fun and creativity!
Old school floral watercolour expert Nicky Hunter brings her lively, vibrant style to Little Berkhamsted for her Spring Blooms in Watercolour Workshop. Nicky will inspire and encourage you, and you will be amazed at your colourful results!
Come and join Nicky Hunter for this amazing Watercolour Workshop which, while being perfect for most levels, is not suitable for complete beginners. The aim will be to create expressive paintings in watercolour of spring blooms you will observe Nicky painting a watercolour artwork in stages and will create their own artworks using the techniques that are demonstrated, with Nicky's guidance and support.
The aim is to improve students’ knowledge and painting skills using loose and lively watercolour methods and managing wet into wet technique. You will learn how to keep whites fresh and colours transparent so your artworks sing with radiance! Nicky will teach elements of good picture making such as effective layout and composition and how to use soft edges and strong tonal values to make your paintings sing from the page.
Workshop runs from 10am-4pm. Price £85 includes all day refreshments and a two-course lunch. Free parking.
SPRING BLOOMS in WATERCOLOURS
with Nicky Hunter
on Saturday 22nd March 10am - 4pm
at Little Berkhamsted
GLASS FUSION
with LAURA BROOKS-PAYNE
Saturday 5th April 2025
at Little Berkhamsted
10am - 1pm
Glass designer Laura leads this lively, creative workshop. Learn all about the techniques of glass making and create your own masterpiece, which will be later fired and then delivered back to you. Perfect for beginners.
This fused glass hanging panel workshop is ideal for beginners or those who have dabbled with fused glass previously.
You will learn about the art of glass fusing following a short tutorial on different glass types, an introduction to sheet glass, frit (crushed glass) and stringers (threads of glass). You will be able to use all of these to create a picture or an abstract design. You will practice how to cut glass safely.
Laura will guide you through the process step by step. You don't have to be creative to do this workshop - the glass does this for you and Laura is on hand to guide you.
Your finished design will then need to go through the kiln, cool and will be ready for collection 7-10 days later. Light catchers will come with a glass hanger and ribbon included in the price.
Alternatively, you may wish to purchase a beautiful oak stand for your free-standing panel, for which there is a small extra charge of £5, payable on the day. The oak stand shows off your work very well, but the choice is yours.
Workshop runs from 10am-1pm. Price £65 includes all materials, firing and refreshments. Free parking.
2025 Programme
We have put together our 2025 programme
We are always adding workshops so keep an eye on this page for more details.
See attached Document which shows what we are planning for this year
Venues & Social Media
All our full day workshops include a two course lunch, with tea and coffee available all day.
The Little Berkhamsted workshops take place at Little Berkhamsted Village Hall, SG13 8LY.
All Epping workshops take place at the first floor hall at Epping Golf Course,
Flux's Lane, Epping CM16 7PE.
Dutch Marketplace workshops are at Great North Road Hatfield AL9 6ND.
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