Workshops
The cost of the workshop includes the entry to the Park so you can enjoy the 2km walk before or after your workshop. Or, stop and enjoy the refreshments found at the Roosting Ruru Cafe located by the Artist shelter.
Kid’s Bookbinding Workshop
Saturday 12th July
Join us on Saturday 12th July for a book-binding workshop. Create your own pamphlet journal and start decorating it inspired by the beautiful surroundings of the arboretum. Whether you enjoy writing, drawing or collecting this personal journal will be great for keeping all your ideas - and when it is full you will know how to make another one!
Ticket includes all materials needed for creating a pamphlet notebook and a hot drink during the workshop.
Workshop is help in an outdoor studio so please dress warmly.
Carving with artist Marcus Tatton
Saturday 26th July
This workshop in Wood Carving and Design is for beginners and experienced creators alike.
Marcus brings techniques, methods and imaginative ques to get you started on this project of a Greenwood seat.
Numbers are limited for this very exclusive opportunity so don’t miss out.
Full Weekend Workshop
with Marcus Tatton
Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th August
This exclusive opportunity is to create and craft a piece from wood for your home.
Whether it is a bowl or a spoon or something more personal to you, during the two day workshop you will be tutored by Marcus.
Get Riveted with Harley
Harley Moore is returning for another workshop experience.
He will demonstrate his metal art and the technique of using a Riveting gun - so don’t miss out as numbers do need to be limited.
Saturday 30th August
Nature Journaling with Sandra Morris
Sunday 21st September
Learn how to draw and write for identification or just for pleasure from the natural world around the Sculpture gardens with botanical artist and award winning illustrator Sandra Morris.
No previous artistic skills are necessary, just a desire to learn to look and record in the best way suited to each individual, be it in the form of a sketch, a detailed drawing, a diagram, a graph, and /or using words and numbers, poems, haiku, lists, prose, descriptions etc. By consistently journaling, we learn more about the natural world, through observation and enquiry.
Nature Journaling plus Botanical Watercolour workshop
Book a full day with Sandra and combine the Nature Journaling and the Botanical watercolour workshops to have a full creative experience.
We offer the two workshops for a special price.
Remember numbers for both workshops are limited
Botanical Watercolour Workshop
Sunday 21st September
Explore the Magic of Watercolour
Painting plants from the sculpture garden with botanical artist Sandra Morris. No experience is necessary, as Sandra will guide you as you learn about this fabulous medium and how to achieve stunning results with the right tools, the right tips and some tricks Sandra has used in her own art practice.
Sandra will take you through this creative process.
Have a go at Pottery
18th October
Come and join Sylvia for a fun 2 hour "Have-a-go at pottery" workshop. Sylvia will demonstrate a few handbuilding projects and we will incorporate organic materials found in the park to make interesting surfaces. 2 kg of clay, glaze and firing included in the price (enough to make quite a few items).
The setup is aimed for beginners and curious creatives who want to try their hands at clay work in a relaxed setting. Please allow 2-3 weeks for the firings.
Sylvia Sinel's interdisciplinary art practice spans over 35 years and her work can be found in many private collections worldwide. Sylvia is very much involved in the art community and regularly teaches classes and workshops in various organizations. https://sylviasinel.com/