The Big Drawing TableOpen a larger version of the following image in a popup: Join us at Hopton Hall Gallery at our big drawing table, to roll up your sleeves and draw. You may have a few minutes to spare or half an hour, or you just might find yourself staying longer than you’d anticipated,…

New – Fashion Illustration and Design – mixed media and wire If your childhood desire to be a fashion illustrator or designer was firmly suppressed, now’s the time to let it out of the box and join me for a fun and creative day exploring mark making, pattern, collage and wire; your inner teenager will…

New – Create small wire animal sculptures   Come along to The Slipper Studio and learn how to create your own tiny wire animal sculptures. Your initial ideas will be sketched, before you explore fine and flexible heat treated wire. It’s an expressive material and surprisingly easy to handle, cut and manipulate with basic hand…

  Fancy a Cuppa? Create decorative wire sculpture   Fine and flexible wire is a lovely material to work with, enabling you to create characterful objects, with a drawn-like quality to them. Come along to The Slipper Studio and learn how to create a range of small and decorative, tea themed pieces of sculpture, which…

  Explore 1 or 2 Colour Lino Cutting and Printing     Lino cutting and printing is a very enjoyable process that can be explored at our kitchen tables and requires a minimum of specialist equipment. Many of us may remember creating our first linocut during our Art lessons at secondary school. If you are…

  Drawing for Absolute Beginners (and folks told that they aren’t good at Art ).     As a creative tutor, it’s not unusual for me to hear the comments “ I can’t draw” or “I’m rubbish at drawing”. Most people tend to be quite negative about their own ability and it’s pretty clear that…

Lino Cutting and Printing for Beginners & Rusty Printmakers      Lino cutting and printing is a very enjoyable process that can be explored at our kitchen tables and requires a minimum of specialist equipment. Many of us may remember creating our first linocut during our Art lessons at secondary school. If you are looking…

Birds on a Wire – create tiny sculpture   Fine and flexible wire is a lovely material to work with, enabling you to create characterful objects, with a drawn-like quality to them. Come along to The Slipper Studio and learn how to create a range of small and decorative pieces of sculpture, which will take…

Explore Blind Embossing – printing without ink   Blind embossing is an interesting creative technique. It uses the skills and materials associated with lino cutting, but without all of the mess generated when inking up a plate. Once you have cut a design, the block is rolled through a press with lots of pressure applied,…

Colourful Still Life A mixed bunch of flowers in a favourite vase or jug is a simple pleasure and one that cheers; add a favourite ornament or two and you have a beautiful still life. Numerous artists, such as Emma Dunbar, Debbie George, Emily Maudey and Jo Aylward, create images exploring the pattern, shape and…