Event Categories: Arts & Craft

This 5 week course follows on from the beginners’ course, and will work on beautiful new pieces of work using the techniques learned in the first course plus new techniques.

This course will also include an introduction to the basics of glazing and surface decoration.

£125 for the full 5 weeks per person including all materials and tools.

Everyone loves Elephants! An easy fun workshop using hands to shape an elephant from stoneware clay.

This workshop covers a wide range of subject matters and can accommodate all ages and abilities. The sessions are an opportunity to learn basic techniques, whilst enjoying the creation of unique objects.

 

 

The best of the city’s local produce, crafters & makers will fill Hull Minster inside and out, alongside street food and flea market stalls offering vintage items & other collectables.

Makers – Local Produce – Collectables – Vintage – Artisan – Designer – Food & Drink – Entertainment

£2 entry all day. Under 12’s are free

Suzie Reffold is an experienced potter who specialises in hand-building techniques, throwing on the wheel, and decorative

During this session, you will learn to create honey pots using the coil building technique. This method has been used to shape clay into pots for many thousands of years, and is the best technique for both small and large pots, as well as sculptures.

Using the coiling technique, it is possible to build thicker or taller walled pots, which may not have been possible using earlier methods, permitting more control whilst allowing you to build on top of the walls to make the pots look bigger with less danger of collapsing.

This workshop is suitable for beginners, and costs £25 per person. 

 

 

Suzie Reffold is an experienced potter who specialises in hand-building techniques, throwing on the wheel, and decorative techniques.

Scraffitto (Italian – “to scratch”), is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of colour or colours to leather hard pottery, then scratching off  layers to create contrasting images, patterns and texture and reveal the clay colour underneath.

During this session, you will develop hand in beautiful decorative affects using both Scraffitto and slip decoration.

This workshop is suitable for beginners, and costs £25 per person which includes materials and firing.

Suzie Reffold is an experienced potter who specialises in hand-building techniques, throwing on the wheel, and decorative techniques.

During this new four week course at Studio Eleven, you will develop hand building techniques, beautiful decorative affects using scraffitto and slip decoration, and have a go at throwing.

These workshops are suitable for beginners, and costs £100 for all four sessions, including materials and firing. 

Japanese woodblock printmaking, known as ‘Mokuhanga’, is perfect for artists interested in a non-toxic, table-top printmaking technique.

In a two day workshop with expert Lucy Schofield, you will learn the basic skills to transfer and carve a ‘key line’ and colour separation blocks, in the tradition of Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaking.

With only a hand held barren, learn techniques to achieve various print effects, from ‘sesame printing’ to ‘bokashi’, while registering your multi-block image through the simple traditional ‘kento’ system.

You will be sure to fall in love with the process and results of this accessible, water-based printmaking method, which provides endless possibilities.

This two day workshop costs £120, or £100 for members. 

Louise Watson is an experienced glass artist that works with both architectural and kiln-formed glass.

Learn the techniques of fused glass making, an ideal way to experiment and create your own small project pieces. You will learn a variety of fusing methods to create pieces such as pendants, decorations and small tiles.

This workshop costs £55 (£50 for members) and is suitable for beginners, or those with some fused glass experience.

 

 

Tom Wood is an established artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. With over 50 years of practising, Tom will provide two highly skilled and specialised sessions over the course of one weekend.

Saturday 28th April, 10:30am – 4pm

Make Your Own Pastels – You will learn how to make chalk pastels in a colour set of your choice.

Sunday 29th April, 10:30am – 4pm

Drawing in Pastel – Tom will tutor the drawing session focusing on how to get the most out of your personal set of handmade pastels.

Collagraph is a printing method in which materials are glued to a printing plate (often card or mountboard). The textures and depth of the materials can often leave an impression and indentation into the paper as well as the inked image. Combine and layer these methods to build up depth, colour, texture, and composition.

These workshops are suitable for intermediaries, and take place on Saturday 31st Mar, 7th & 14th April, 11am – 4pm.

£120 or £105 for members.

Beverley Rocks is set to to hold a hide & seek day at Humber Bridge Country Park.

Come and hide your rocks and find some amazing donated rocks from local artists too.

Plus, you’ll find plenty more activities to do at the Country Park Inn. Expect cake, face painting, glitter tattoos for the glamorous, balloon modelling, tombola, music and a rock auction. There are prizes to be won in a raffle too.

Drop-in, anytime between 10am-3pm.