Diary of Events

Su Joy is coming back to our studio to run a fun workshop using papier-mâché to create quirky dogs and cats.  By constructing a simple armature, using wire or cardboard, you can easily make a beautiful dog or cat, with fantastic surface textures. Su Joy has degrees in...

On 31st May, basketmaker Linda Mills will run a workshop at our studio to show us how to make a willow frame basket using a mixture of different willow varieties and colours.  They are idea for soft fruit gathering.  Linda uses mainly Somerset  grown Willow  supplied ...

We are delighted that printmaker Lisa Takahashi is to return to our studio on 17th May to introduce us to collagraphy and card printing.  Lisa Takahashi is a practising artist, and has exhibited her prints extensively, including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition....

After his most successful workshop in September 2024, Will Davies returns for another carving workshop.  The course will explore the capabilities of carving into thermalite blocks with hand tools (hand saws, chisels, rasps and files). Thermalite blocks can be a cheap,...

On 29th March, our resident tutor John Souter, will be runnign a plaster workshop.  Learn how to make a simple armature with aluminium wire and/or chicken wire and then coat it in plaster to build up a sculptural shape.  You can then use various tools to carve into...

On Saturday 15 March, experienced wood carver Alex Jones will be coming to our studio to conduct a wood carving workshop.  After graduating from City & Guilds Art College in London in 1991, Alex Jones spent a year as an apprentice to Peter Turing, a woodcarver in...

In January, we have a stained glass workshop coming up run by Jo Munford.  Jo  is a professional stained glass artist creating original glass art from her studio in Netley Abbey, Hampshire. Jo works mainly to commission mixing traditional stained glass techniques, and...

Today we had great fun at our studio with an impromptu session on how to make paper into sculptural forms.  Our fellow member Maggie thought it was a shame not to reuse the lovely paper we bought to cover our exhibiiton tables during Hampshire Ope Studios.  She showed...

n 16th June, artist Su Joy will be coming back to our studio to run a workshop showing us how to make mosaic tablets.  Mosaics date back to the Byzantine era, and their permanence, often in pristine condition, are testament to their durability and longevity: they...