UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Club nights are every other Friday, 6-9pm. Most evenings include a workshop (starting at 6.30pm) or a 'drop in' session (starting at 6.15pm).
Workshops can only be booked in person at club nights, and places are subject to availability. They can be booked in advance but there is a limit to one booking per evening, unless there are spaces on that evening’s workshop.
If you aren't booked on a workshop you are still very welcome to join us on a Friday night! There is access to our massive range of art and craft materials for a small donation or you can bring your own projects to work on.
Date 22nd August 2025
Workshop – Contemporary Abstract Watercolours and Doodling with Karen
Join Karen to explore the use of wet-on-wet beginner friendly watercolour techniques. Embellish the results with your own lively doodle designs in gouache and pen.
12 places.
Cost £3
Date 5th September
Workshop – Box Frame Art with Shirley
Do you have a collection of items like shells or beads or buttons that you could bring together and display in a simple 21.5cm x 21.5cm box frame? Perhaps you might collect such items over the summer?
Gather them up and bring them along this evening and Shirley will show you how to mount them. Addition resources will be available to add to your own.
12 places.
Cost £3
Date 19th September
Workshop – Sgraffito with Jak (outside tutor)
This is an artistic and decorative technique meaning ‘to scratch’ in Italian. We will provide you with a piece of glass (16 x 11.7cm) that has been prepared with traditional glass paint. During the workshop you will etch into the paint creating a design that will be taken away to be fired and returned to the hall at a later date. You will have the opportunity to add a frame to your work on another evening. It is advisable to bring one or more designs with you although ideas with be available.
NOTE: The paint is lead-based. You may want to wear a mask and gloves for this activity.
This workshop is not suitable for pregnant women.
10 places.
Cost £5.
Date 3rd October
AGM and Workshops – Mini-Makes with Rachel, Chris and Barbara
There will be a brief AGM during the course of this evening, so please come along and join us for this important event. Entry is free to members and will include light refreshments.
You will have a choice of short activities – earrings, little boxes (perhaps to put the earrings in?) and candle wraps.
No booking required, first come, first served on the night.
Cost £1.00 per item.
Date 17th and 31st October
Workshop – Sgraffito Frames with Chris and Eileen
If you were on the sgraffito workshop on 19th September, on these two nights you will have the opportunity to build a frame around your finished piece using basic glasswork techniques.
5 places each evening.
FREE if you attended the workshop.
Date 17th and 31st October
Workshop – Treat Boxes with Shirley
We have a range of kits in Christmas shapes that can be painted and then constructed to form a clear fronted container that can be filled with sweets or chocolates or used as a money box. Get ahead for Christmas?
8 places each evening.
Cost £3.
Date 17th and 31st October
Workshops – Gilding Flake Techniques with Barbara
This is a little bit of magic. Take some card and glue and sprinkle on some soft and floaty flakes. Burnish and polish to reveal the sheen! Mount your finished images onto cards for the special people in your life.
4 places each evening.
Cost £3.
Date 14th November
Workshop – Metal Embossing with Rachel
Make beautiful embossed copper sheet decorations to display in your home this Christmas! Use the templates provided to create folk style decorations as pictured, or create your own designs to suit your personality and your home. You'll be given enough copper to make 4-6 decorations, depending on size.
10 places.
Cost £3.
Date 14th and 28th November
Learn Together Group Session – Christmas Cards
There is nothing quite like receiving a home-made Christmas card. Bring your ideas this evening, and share with other members. Tonight could be a chance to use the images you created in the gilding flake workshop.
No limit on numbers.
FREE activity but DONATIONS appreciated.
Date 28th November
Workshop – Christmas Crackers with Shirley
If you are not too fussed about the hat and the bang, these little cuties will impress your family and friends. They look good on the table, on the tree or even on the pillow in the guest bedroom. They can be easily personalised and filled with something worth keeping or eating!
No limit on numbers.
FREE activity but DONATIONS appreciated.
Date 12th December
Workshop – Christmas Wreath Making with Helena
Tonight we shall be making lovely natural wreaths to adorn our homes this Christmas starting from a circular wire frame. We will provide some basic materials to help you decorate your wreath. We would appreciate it if you could bring some evergreen foliage to share and feel free to bring your own embellishments.
Please bring secateurs or heavy duty kitchen scissors to cut the greenery. You may also want to bring gardening gloves to protect your hands from the holly.
12 places.
Cost £3.