Nature Based Workshop’s & Courses
A selection of workshops & courses tailored to help you reconnect with the natural world & your full creativity.
Children's Contemporary Craft Club
Children's contempory craft club
Friday 9th August
Choose EITHER 10am -12:30 or 2pm -4:30
Botanical printed nature journal & pyrography book mark
Each child will learn the magic of botanical printing on paper, forage for their materials & learn about various species of plants & there characteristic to then cover their own nature journal to take away with them. They will also be able to use this inspiration to design, draw and wood burn their own book mark to also come home with or gift if they choose. Enhanced dbs checked & insured.
Age 8+ (parental inclusion is preferred as it'll be a lovely family joint experience)
£15 per child
At The Painted Fern Studio, The barn, Teme court arcade, Tenbury wells
Limited spaces, please book via the online shop
Sensational Seasons - Brilliant Brambles Workshop
Is there anything more brilliant than a bramble? Here at Painted Fern Studio’s, we don’t believe that there’s many things better. This months Sensational Season’s workshop is designed to bring the best of what late summer has to offer.
We’ll take a wonderous walk along the hedgerow to collect our beautiful bounty. You’ll be guided on how to avoid the prickles & harvest every part of the plant while learning about the benefits of blackberries. We’ll use the leaves to eco print our garments to create the most beautiful prints & dye pot to bring out the beautiful bright colours which can be achieves from these brilliant berries.
After a bountiful banquet of homemade, homegrown & foraged food of course celebrating the best the blackberry has to offer, we’ll transform our dye pot into ink after discovering how adding different PH levels can alter the colours we can achieve.
Our second day will take us into discovering what can be achieved with the bramble stems we foraged the day before. We’ll learn how to extract fibre’s & turn them into cordage as well as using the stems as a whole for a basic weave.
At the end of this weekend workshop, we hope that you will never see the bramble the same way again!
Details to be confirmed - please email us to express interest
The Painted Fern Studio - 6 Week Course
Here we have it, back by popular demand!
6 weeks of learning new crafts & skills to create contemporary, textured art work, catered to all levels of skill & experience & most materials provided.
Lessons include:
. Exploration of botanical inks
. Contemporary collage
. Upcycled glass painting
. Mixed media landscapes
. Introduction to natural art
. Art 101 (for Beginners)
If you are more experienced & just looking to create with a guiding hand, this is also available.
There will also be an exhibition of work created after the course has finished.
Venue will be confirmed once I know the numbers but it will be in Tenbury Wells.
Places won't be secure until a deposit of £30 has been taken. The rest will be required before the course begins.
This course has been designed for everyone, whether you are already an established artist or a complete beginner looking for new skills and an introduction into new crafts. Specifically, we endeavour to encourage enthusiasm, enjoyment & a way to benefit your mental health while also protecting the environment with artistic practice.
As always, we have a couple of places available for a major discount if you know somebody who would benefit mentally but is also financially struggling. Please send all nominations privately.
I look forward to seeing more incredible pieces of artwork created and making more good friends in the coming weeks
Art 101 - Drawing skills & creative expression
With over 10 years of teaching experience, you can be guaranteed to learn techniques to improve your artistic practice & reconnect to your creativity with our art 101 workshops. So often, people say that they are incapable of drawing, with tried & tested drawing exercises, we can change all that.
We begin our day, as all creative pursuits start, with inspiration. We’ll take a wonderful winter walk to take photo’s, make sketches & note the colours which we wish to bring into our art work. Once back in the studio (& warmed up with tea & cake), we’ll guide you through some drawing skills as you decide which way you wish to go with your inspiration as well as playing with a range of materials to explore textures, lines & colours to enhance your art work.
After lunch, we’ll begin our pieces & create an ode to the winter landscape with guidance every step of the way.
Location - The Painted Fern Studio
Cost (including lunch & most materials) - £60
Maximum Capacity - 6 participants
Succulent Wreath Making
Christmas wreath making workshops have become really popular over the past few years. I remember attending one myself at the tender age of 8 with my mum & have been making my own wreaths for our front door ever since. After becoming obsessed with green roof systems a few years ago, I began propagating hundreds of succulents and so last year, I created a living wreath with them which can be kept all year round growing more beautiful as the months go by, rather than being thrown away on boxing day.
Our living wreath workshop will guide you through the process of creating one of these wreaths for yourself to dress your festive door or gift to a friend. With homemade mince pies & mulled perry or tea/coffee, your guaranteed to walk away festive & full of the joys of a more sustainable Christmas.
Location - Commonwood Farm, knighton-on-teme, Tenbury Wells
https://www.commonwoodfarm.com/
Price (including materials & festive refreshments) - £70
Head to our shop to book now!
Christmas with The Painted Fern Studio
Festive fun has begun with The Painted Fern studio this year! As well as commissions & murals, we’ll also be appearing at a range of Christmas Markets & Events this year with our special edition products such as eco-printed baubles, Christmas stockings, succulent wreath’s as well as our usual stock of art kits, home decor & women’s wear. & To top it all off, we’ll have succulent wreath making workshops running throughout the festive period. We’re already working on new ideas for next year so sign up to our newsletter to keep updated!
Christmas Dates for your Diary:
Tuesday 6th December - Tinsel Tuesday Market - Ludlow
Wednesday 7th December - Succulent Wreath Making Workshop - Commonwood Farm - 12-2:30
Thursday 8th December - Frank P Matthew’s Tree Shop Christmas Fair - 6:30-8:30
Tuesday 13th December - Tinsel Tuesday Market - Ludlow
Tuesday 20th December - Tinsel Tuesday Market - Ludlow
Renew, Recycle, Regift Workshop
With Christmas looming & bills rising, making homemade & recycled gifts is even more important than ever. We’ll learn basic eco printing skills in Nicola Brown’s Dirty Pot technique to upcycle old garments & paper stacks into beautiful pieces of art to gift to your loved ones (or gift to yourself if needs be).
Maximum capacity - 6 participants
Location - The Painted Fern Studio
Cost - £75 full day (including lunch & some materials)
Renew, Recycle, Regift - Painted Glass Workshop
Renew, Recycle, Regift - Painted Glass Workshop
The first of our Renew, Recycle, Regift workshops will be creating these stunning stained glass style painting from, you got it, recycled picture frames! Simply bring along an old glass fronted frame you no longer have a use for & you will be guided & taught how to create a beautiful painted image to regift to a loved one (or sneakily keep it for yourself).
To begin our day, we’ll look for inspiration in the natural world & explore drawing techniques to design our pieces. There will be one on one tuition to help explain the processes of glass painting & how our drawings will be transferred onto glass.
After applying the outlines of our designs onto glass, you’ll be treated to an organically homegrown lunch of pumpkin soup & home baked bread followed by pudding from seasonal fruit grown & foraged in the studio garden (please let us know of any dietary requirements on booking).
After lunch, we’ll paint our glass with the provided supplies & discuss further applications of the techniques for future projects as well as a critique of our day.
Location - The Painted Fern Studio
Price (including materials & lunch) - £65
Maximum number - 6 participants
Botanical Brew's - Ink Making Workshop
What’s more beautiful than the botanicals around us? Brewing those botanicals into blushing inks to then create with!
Our botanical inks are available to purchase in our shop, but we are offering a very special opportunity for you to learn to create some of these inks yourself.
The day will begin with a walk to forage for our materials to create our inks. Every season has a different bounty to brew, but the British autumn holds an exceptional array of materials such as acorns, pinecones, hawthorns & so much more which we can extract from. Once we’ve got our materials, we’ll light a cosy fire & cook up our inks while enjoying a chat over a cup of warm tea or coffee (many homemade foraged to try). We’ll learn about the history of ink’s & how they have been used by cultures for thousands of years, the chemical differences between pigments & dyes & so much more. After lunch (homegrown & made pumpkin soup with homemade bread available), we’ll have a lesson learning what we can do with our inks & play with the different mordants & PH levels to expose the hidden possibilities in our inks & create a beautiful piece of artwork. You’ll also be able to take home your homemade inks to continue your exploration of this versatile artistic medium.
£65 per person including lunch & materials
Maximum Capacity - 8
Location - Dorethy’s Rock - Tenbury Wells
Tenbury Applefest 2022
This year we’ll be at Tenbury Applefest, our favourite festival in our hometown, “the town in the orchard”! There will be Morris Dancing, entertainment, wonderful local stalls, the famous Frank P Matthew’s tree’s & so much more on offer.
Our little stand will include an opportunity to purchase handmade art supplies & crafts lovingly created from the local flora & fauna, inks, charcoal, art kits, our Wild Child children’s clothing range & books, as well as a rare chance to view & purchase our range of eco printed goods & original paintings of the local landscapes. You’ll be able to have a chat to us about our upcoming workshops & have a play with some of the skills you can learn with us. As well as all this, Hanah Elizabeth will be completing a LIVE painting of a local apple orchard from said locally inspired art supplies to be silent auctioned off to raise money for MIND charity. A wonderful day not to be missed.
