There is a magnificence of colour in September, from Dahlia’s and Gladioli or Dartmoor’s famous Rowan – learn how to create plant-based inks from this wonderful flora and explore drawing techniques with your newly made materials.
2022 Course dates:
Saturday 17th September 2022
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16.
Learn how to weave an obelisk plant support for climbing plants using green willow and a dragonfly sculpture. You will be using a selection of coloured willow to make the obelisk and pre-soaked willow for the dragonfly. All materials included.
2022 Course dates:
Saturday 26th March 2022
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16.
Get a glimpse into the magic potential of cyantoypes, with just little sunlight, your creativity and a touch of chemistry.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 16th July 2022
Saturday 3rd December 2022
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16
Have a days tuition creating a beautiful large sculptured bird from willow and learning the skills to make your own.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 21st May 2021
Time: 10am – 4pm
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16
Weave a willow Hare for your garden or home in a day. A fun workshop using willow to create a randomly woven hare that will be happy in the garden all summer.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 8th October
Time: 10am – 4.30pm
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16.
This is a beginners class, no experience in using wood, knives and axes is necessary. If you have some experience then this will help you progress faster.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 2nd April 2022 – FULLY BOOKED
Saturday 3rd September 2022 – Places available
Time: 10am – 5pm
Price: £70 per person
Minimum age: 16.
This course teaches the foundations of upholstery techniques using an overstuffed dining chair as your starting point – bring along your own dining chair from home to rejuvenate!
2022 Workshop Dates:
Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th November
Time: 10am – 4pm, both days
Price: £140 per person
Minimum age: 16
This is an opportunity to learn basic knife techniques, making wooden flowers and feather sticks for lighting fires. After that, we will learn safe axe techniques for splitting wood for craft purposes, and then how to shape the wood with an axe. This will progress into making a reindeer, horse, or other animal, using small branches and also a saw, drill, and rounding plane.
Must be accompanied by an adult.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 25th June 2022
Time: 1 – 4pm
Price: £25 per person
This is an opportunity to learn woodworking skills and to make a number of items using a saw, drill, rasp and sanding devices, starting out with a coat peg made from a natural branch. Time allowing, we will then make some wooden flowers using a knife and small sticks cut from the hedgerow. Those with aptitude will continue to make feather sticks for fire lighting.
2022 Course Dates:
Saturday 25th June 2022
Time: 10am – 12 midday
Price: £15 per person
