HAPPENINGS
Led by the Seasons
Create Academy Presents: Block Printing with Molly Mahon
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a one-day workshop to experience the joy of block printing. You will design and print your own cushion cover to take home and cherish.
Create Academy Presents: Festive Wreath Making with Willow Crossley
Join acclaimed florist and floral stylist Willow Crossley for a special festive wreath making workshop. Willow will first give a demonstration using different types of fresh foliage and techniques, before you create your own professionally styled wreath under her guidance.
Create Academy Presents: Flower Pressing with JamJar Edit
Learn the art of flower pressing with JamJar Edit. During this two hour hands-on workshop, which includes a walk through the cutting garden for inspiration, you will learn how to select and press a variety of seasonal flowers, using a flower press which is yours to keep and use for years to come.
Create Academy Presents: Lampshade Workshop with Chloe Jonason
Join Chloe for a step by step lesson on how to make a beautiful gathered silk sari lampshade, followed by a delicious light lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
Sarah Raven at Thyme: Magnificent Pots
This is the course for those who love gardening in pots. Whether you have a large-ish garden like Sarah's, or one where the whole garden is in containers. Including practical and design tips, learn plenty of new ideas for magnificent
Sarah Raven at Thyme: The Cutting Garden
I love being able to pick armfuls of flowers for a good nine months of the year and in this day course we will teach you how, giving you hard facts on how to succeed with growing the very best and most productive plants. We will also give you practical advice on seed sowing and propagation, soil conditioning, mulching, staking and all the most important things we have found to help us succeed with nine month round flower production.
Sarah Raven at Thyme: A Year Full of Flowers
Inspiration, planting ideas and expert advice for a beautiful garden all year round. This is the course for the general gardener, who - like Sarah – adores and thrives on year round colour, scent and floweriness just outside the door.
Botanical Painting with Katharine Amies
Painting is a calming and creative experience and an opportunity to nurture new or existing skills. This painting class follows the theme of botanical still life, where you could be painting anything from plants and flowers to vegetables.
Vigour and Skills: An Introduction to Distilling Hydrosols with Saskia Marjoram
This day is for anyone who wants to learn about distilling plants using a copper alembic still and is suitable for those wanting to learn more about the healing properties of hydrosols from beginners to herbal professionals.
We will cover the basic practicalities of distilling, how you might use hydrosols and the specific properties of some of the more commonly used ones.
You will smell and taste various hydrosols and compare their characteristics, their energetic and healing properties.
Modern / Christmas Calligraphy Workshops with Mellor & Rose
Join us for a Christmas calligraphy workshop hosted by Lucy Mellor, where you will learn key fundamentals to amplify any festive setting. Under the guidance of expert tutors, receive plenty of one to one tuition in perfecting linking letters, festive words and Christmas phrases before coming . Learn to add festive foliage and flourishes to compliment your calligraphy pieces and come away with a variety of tools and inspiration for the festive season.
All levels of experience are welcomed.
Molly Mahon Block Printing: Tea Towels
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a two hour workshop experiencing the joy of block printing, inspired by her shared love of nature and the surrounding land at Thyme.
Molly Mahon Block Printing: Cards and Envelopes
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a two hour workshop experiencing the joy of block printing, inspired by her shared love of nature and the surrounding land at Thyme.
Lancaster & Cornish: Silk Ribbon Workshop
Join artisan maker Sian Cornish as she reveals the secrets to beautiful, lasting colour from plants transferred to silk ribbons.
Lancaster & Cornish: Silk Ribbon Workshop (Afternoon)
Join artisan maker Sian Cornish as she reveals the secrets to beautiful, lasting colour from plants transferred to silk ribbons.
Lancaster & Cornish: Silk Ribbon Workshop (Morning)
Join artisan maker Sian Cornish as she reveals the secrets to beautiful, lasting colour from plants transferred to silk ribbons.
Molly Mahon Block Printing: Cards and Envelopes
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a two hour workshop experiencing the joy of block printing, inspired by her shared love of nature and the surrounding land at Thyme.
Molly Mahon Block Printing: Tea Towels
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a two hour workshop experiencing the joy of block printing, inspired by her shared love of nature and the surrounding land at Thyme.