Get Creative

Learn, develop and embrace your skills of working with ink and watercolour with Eleanor Tomlinson to create your own bespoke building portrait in a day with her new workshop held at The Ropewalk

Do you have an old stool, chair or ottoman that needs some new life breathing into it? Bring it to Lesley Leonard’s Upholstery Weekend workshop. Here you will learn how to upholster an item of your choice. Lesley will provide all the equipment for the weekend all you will need to bring is the finishing fabric.

Create a jointed collaged figure from antique images, magazines, discarded books, maps and decorative papers, adding other decorative and recycled embellishments, such as old lace, ribbon, thread and text. Your figure will be poseable and can be a character from a story or purely from your imagination. Your finished artwork can be hung up, put on a stand, framed or used as a shadow puppet.

Create a striking, full size Stag’s Head in animal-friendly willow for your wall. These also look great with lights. This course is suitable for beginners.

Learn to make your own circular and heart-shaped willow Christmas wreaths and star decorations in the morning and then decorate them in the afternoon with greenery and berries.