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Click here for a link to my Eventbrite page with more details of upcoming workshops.
The Magic of Norway - Night Sky in January
I am very excited to be running art workshops at this Walking Women Trip 16/1/26 - 23/1/26
Click here for more details of the trip.
The extra art classes will include tetrapak printing, lino printing, zentangle doodling and tapestry weaving. Early bird discount if booked before 1 December 2025.
Art Outside
My favourite place to be is outside in nature; it inspires many of my paintings. I want to encourage more people to explore their creativity without the constraints of four walls by running outside workshops and art walks.
I will soon be a qualified Hill and Moorland Leader with Mountain Training and I am also a qualified Outdoor First Aider.
Future workshops
11 August 2025 - 10:00 - 13:00
Introduction to paint pouring
Paintpouring is a really fun technique using different colours of acrylics mixed with safe chemicals that keep the colours from muddling together. We layer them up then tip them onto canvases or treated cardboard to make beautiful natural patterns that may remind you of cells and natural forms, under the sea, or perhaps outer space!
Wear old clothes, bring an apron and be ready to play and have fun!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
11/18/25 Sept & 2 October 2025 -10:00 - 12:30
Linoprinting for beginners and improvers
Over 4 weeks build up your skills, perhaps try using more than one colour, reduction printing or making a bigger image. Suitable for everyone don't be put off if you've not done it before or think you're "not creative". I promise you'll have fun learning! Suitable for age 14+ with an adult participating or age 16 + on your own!
Bring an apron and some wipes as it's messy. We use caligo safe wash oil based inks which wash off tools and hands but can stain your clothes!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
19 September 2025 - 10:00 - 12:00
Watercolour basics 101 a short introduction
Come join us for a fun and interactive event where you'll learn the basics of watercolour painting. This is perfect for beginners who want a short introduction to a lovely relaxing hobby.
During this hands-on workshop, you'll discover the beauty of watercolours and how to create your own stunning pieces of art. Bring some photos of a landscape or two to inspire you. First of all we'll work on some exercises to get the hang of some skills and then you'll spend about 30 minutes on your own little unique watercolour sketch! I can't wait to see what you produce.
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
20 September 2025 - 15:30 - 16:30
Michaelmas Fair have a go at monoprinting
A short introductory workshop to learn about monoprinting. We'll look at one technique and you can have fun experimenting. It's a bit messy so don't wear your best clothes. You'll leave with lots of lovely prints you can use to make cards, gift tags and perhaps even book on one of my collage workshops and use them as some materials for them!
Suitable for children age 7 upwards with a participating adult and for everyone even if you've never done anything like this at all!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
21 September 2025 - 13:30 - 16:00
Colour mixing part 1 - the basics
Come join us for a fun and informative session on the fundamentals of colour mixing! In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn all about primary, secondary, and tertiary colours, as well as how to create different shades and tones. Whether you're a beginner or just looking to brush up on your skills, this event is perfect for artists of all levels. Don't miss out on this opportunity to expand your creative palette!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
25 October 2025, 10:00-12:30
Have a go at drawing with oil pastels
Oil pastels are fabulous to use to create intense colour and atmosphere but did you know there are quite a few ways of using them?
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
31 October - 13 November 2025
Various workshops
I will be running various workshops throughout the week - more details to follow.
15 November 2025, 10:00-13:00
Create lino print cards, gift tags and tea towels
Have fun carving a couple of little designs you can then use on gift tags and cards - they could be for Christmas or just for general use. It might be an idea to have a little think about your design you'd like to create beforehand and perhaps bring some drawings, photos, magazine pages etc with you to help inspire you.
Now for those of your feeling a little more ambitious we will have special fabric extender to mix with your inks so you can print on fabric. You will need to bring your own tea towels and table napkins - they need to be linen or cotton - and you can print as many as you want. Please get used to printing on paper and card first though if you're not an experienced printer!
I'll let you know places you might like to get your fabric from a little nearer the time.
Solve all your Christmas presents in one session - presents, tags and cards!
All materials for the tags and cards and tools are provided in the cost of this workshop - you just need to purchase the fabric items for printing on. just turn up and have fun!
We use sharp lino cutting tools so this isn't suitable for children and you need a bit of dexterity to use the blades. You use the kit at your own risk. I give you clear safety instructions that it's essential you follow!
Don't wear good clothes and please bring an apron and wet wipes for keeping you and your work area clean. And bring a mug so I can keep you replenished with coffee or tea!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
29 November 2025, 10:00-13:00
Create lino print gift cards, gift tags and tea towels
Have fun carving a couple of little designs you can then use on gift tags and cards - they could be for Christmas or just for general use. It might be an idea to have a little think about your design you'd like to create beforehand and perhaps bring some drawings, photos, magazine pages etc with you to help inspire you.
Now for those of your feeling a little more ambitious we will have special fabric extender to mix with your inks so you can print on fabric. I will have lots of cotton tea towels you can print on price £2.20 each- they'll make fantastic Christmas presents or do like the Japanese and wrap your presents in beautiful fabric that can be used. You can bring your own cotton or linen fabric or napkins to print on as well - they need to be linen or cotton - and you can print as many as you want. Please get used to printing on paper and card first though if you're not an experienced printer!
Nearer the time it would be useful to know if you're interested in printing on fabric.
Solve all your Christmas presents in one session- presents, tags and cards!
All materials for the tags and cards and tools are provided in the cost of this workshop - you just need to purchase the fabric items for printing on so bring cash or you can pay on line on the day - just turn up and have fun!
We use sharp lino cutting tools so this isn't suitable for children and you need a bit of dexterity to use the blades. You use the kit at your own risk. I give you clear safety instructions that it's essential you follow!
Don't wear good clothes and please bring an apron and wet wipes for keeping you and your work area clean. And bring a mug so I can keep you replenished with coffee or tea!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
13 December 2025, 10:00-12:30
Snow day! Create art inspired by snow
Welcome to our now annual event Snow day! Create art inspired by snow happening on Sat Dec 07 2024 at Priest Weston Village Hall! Join us for a fun day of creativity and winter wonderland vibes. Let's get together and make some beautiful art pieces inspired by the magic of snow. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artist, this event is perfect for anyone who loves to get creative. We will draw, paint and collage to create beatufiul images of the snow, and snow scenes, some figurative, some abstract.
Do bring photos that you've taken, and from magazines etc to inspire you and give you ideas. We'll look at some famous painters' snow scenes, too, to inspire us!
Suitable for everyone, whether you're used to creating art or not!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
13 August 2025 - 10:00 - 13:00
Experiment with monoprinting
During this workshop we will experiment with at least 3 different ways of doing monoprinting so you'll come away with a number of prints that can be used for making cards, for collaging or to frame in their own right! I can't wait to show you some ideas - hopefully some of them will be new to you!
We will be using printing ink and acrylics so please wear old clothes and bring an apron. Also bring a pack of baby wipes as you'll need to keep you, your work area and the tools you use clean!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
13 September 2025, 10:00-12:30
Have a go at drawing with pen and ink
This workshop is for everyone - beginners and improvers as we all need to start somewhere and we can all improve! We're going to take inspiration from artists such as Morandi and Van Gogh who both did amazing pen and ink drawing. We'll look at some artists work using pen and ink first then do some exercises and then I'll set up a still life and you can bring some photos and magazine photos and well spend part of the time on one and part on the other so you're going to learn SOOOOO much! Of course lots of coffee tea and cake to sustain your fabulous work!
Do bring your own black drawing pens and sepia ones if you have them but I will provide pens as well!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
20 September 2025 - 12:30 - 13:30
Michaelmas Fair have a go at tetrapak printing
This is a way of printing using the inside of long life boxes. Carve your design, rub ink in and run through the printer. Suitable for everyone age 7 upwards, children need to be accompanied by an adult.
It's a bit messy so try not to wear your best clothes. but it's a really effective way to create a cool image!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
21 September 2025 - 10:00 - 13:00
Paint a portrait!
A beginners art portraits workshop, we will look at some famous portraits through the ages, so you can see you don't need to paint a photograph! We will think about the power of colours to communicate and perhaps pattern, contrast, block colour and line, texture and other techniques to communicate the character of the person we are painting.
You can use watercolours, acrylics, coloured pencils or pastels but the class won't be about learning techniques for using the materials. So it's a good idea to use materials you've used before! (We have pastels and some opportunities to use other materials at previous workshops over the summer, or contact me to arrange a workshop for perhaps a couple of you to get the basics)
Bring a small (handbag makeup type) mirror if you want to do a self portrait, as well as some photos, and pring photos or copies of photos of other people you'd like to draw. And it's a good idea to wear an apron, and don't wear your very best clothes. If you're doing a self portrait perhaps bring a favourite scarf or some fun jewellery or a hat you can use as part of the portrait!
We'll do some warm up excercises, which you make decide will be part of or inspire the portrait itself and then you'll work on acrylic paper or watercolour or mixed media paper to create a fabulous picture!
If you have your own materials you want to use you're welcome to bring them but let me know by Friday before the session, so I can provide the rest of what you need.
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
23 September 2025 - 10:30 - 12:30
Colour mixing part 2 - primary light colours and other stories
This is the follow up session to the colour mixing basics in March, or if you'd like to learn more about colour mixing than the basics you might already know! Now we'll look at using the primary colours of light to do colour mixing - primary yellow, cyan and primary magenta. You'll get subtly different colours which can really pop, you'll mix beautiful purples and vibrant orange, and lime greens that sing!
To compare with this we'll also have a little look at Zorn colour palette, used by the Swedish portrait artist Anders Zorn in the late 19th and early 20th century.
You'll come away with some colour wheels and strips and lots more ideas about how to manipulate colour in your own art!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
30 October 2025, 10:00-12:30
Inspired by Autumn stitching and textiles
Using materials and bits and bobs you've collected, lots of embroidery and other yarns, buttons etc and unbleached calico and an embroidery hoop that I provide, create a celebration of autumn in a morning.
It would be good to give your mini project some thought beforehand, maybe bring some photos with you to inspire you and be ready to layer, texture stitch and create an abstract or a more realistic celebration of autumn! Perhaps give your mini project some thought beforehand, maybe bring some photos with you to inspire you and be ready to layer, texture stitch and create an abstract or a more realistic celebration of autumn!
You might want to use dried flowers and leaves, seed pods, your own buttons, threads, fabric scraps etc to create something really unique and personal to you!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
5/12/19/26 Nov & 3/10 Dec 2025 -10:00 - 12:30
Mono and tetrapak printing - 6 week course
Come join us for a creative journey into the world of mono and tetrapak printing! This 6 week course will take place at the Border Lights Gallery, where you'll learn the ins and outs of these unique printing techniques. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artist, this course is perfect for anyone looking to expand their artistic skills. The first 3 weeks we will look at a mono printing technique each session and the second half of the course we will experiment with different tetrapk printing techniques including using chine colle, different colour printing inks and surface inks.
This is messy! Bring an apron, wear old clothes and bring a pack of baby wipes to each session partly to keep you clean, partly to keep your work area and tools clean!
Suitable for everyone as long as you want to have a go, want to tap into your innate creativity, and be experimental! Age 13+ with a participating adult, suitable for 16+ without a supervising adult
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
27 November 2025, 10:00-13:00
Embroidery and watercolour in winter
We start by painting with watercolours on unbleached calico. Then dry it and start embroidering - you don't need to know stitches as I can show you some simple ones, or you can add lots other stitching if you like. Plus beads and other decorative bits to add to and enrich your fabulous piece that might just make an amazing homemade present, to a loved one, or even better to yourself! You will be surprised at how beautiful this technique is and how we will all create something individual and special.
Don't forget to bring photos to inspire you and if you have any special threads, yarns, beads or bits and bobs you want to incorporate please bring them along!
Hot drinks and home made cake/biscuits included as well as basic materials, embroidery threads and beads!
Suitable for everyone who loves stitching, being creative and experimental and especially for over 14s to 114s!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
11 December 2025, 10:00-12:30
Christmas embroidered decorations
Have a relaxing morning creating attractive mini embroidery hoop decorations using glittery yarns, bells and buttons and scraps of felt. Suitable for everyone age 10 upwards, who enjoys being creative, children must attend with a participating adult. All materials provided but if you have anything in particular you want to use please do bring it! For instance you might have some pretty lace or buttons with sentimental value!
For more details and to book a place click here (takes you to Eventbrite)
2025 - photos from various workshops
2023 - photos from Claymills and Bog Centre workshops; Bishop's Castle Charter Celebrations
Summer Bushmoot 2022:
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"Meditative botanical drawing"
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"Creating 'Green Man'/Found Natural Art"
Summer Nature Escapes 2022
Testiminials
"My review would be: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved my workshops with Catherine! She is wonderfully engaging, enthusiastic and welcoming. I enjoyed every minute and will definitely be returning for future workshops!"
Lauren (Monoprinting workshop)
"Thank you for all your hard work over the weekend running the art workshops. A lot of people had a really great time. We’d be really pleased to welcome you back to Claymills for further similar events. Great to meet you and see the work that you do, you really helped our steaming go well"
Andrew (Claymills)
"I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and would love to get stuck into another one! Catherine is so lovely and really encouraging but also dished out help whenever I needed it and a push in the right direction when I didn’t. I felt comfortable enough to just go wild and see where I ended up as well as focusing on making my art look as technical as I could. Being outdoors was a lovely change of pace, we never were stretched for something to sketch and the location was beautiful"
Maya
"Thank you for the workshop at Bushmoot. I enjoyed it all so much"
Sofia (age 7)
"A wonderful workshop! Such a great way to spend an hour, allowing the kids to explore different methods. Highly recommended. Thank you"
Participant at children's art workshop
"I would like to say a big thank you for holding your workshops at Claymills - they were certainly a huge success. I trust you enjoyed them as much as the participants did"
Jan (Claymills)
"The variety of media we were able to experience was great and your attitude to let us relax into trying new things.We honed down some actual pencil shading technique that I had never known. More importantly we reinforced how it's not important for the art we make to be perfect, since to improve my art, I need to be prepared to make more art, good or bad".
Ewein
"Your workshop was a very good experience, that I would find much pleasure in repeating"
Henri (age 11)
"Catherine came to the Bushcraft UK Summer BushMoot to share her amazing art skills with everyone there, and once again she knocked it out the park, everyone loved it.
She facilitated a variety of workshops on different aspects of art, doodles, printing, nature, painting and so much more, this allowed anyone no matter their experience or confidence to jump in and feel welcome, she’s an absolute legend"
Tony (Bushmoot)
"Excellent workshops"
"Stayed in the workshop and missed the tour of Clay Mills"
"Catherine was lovely, very helpful and encouraging"
"I am so proud of myself"
"Thoroughly enjoyed picking up a paint brush again, Catherine was very supportive"
Participants at Claymills Workshop
"A beautiful creative and inspired nature themed workshop that our participants thoroughly enjoyed. Catherine’s greatest skill is encouraging the hidden artist in everyone no matter what your experience.
Thank you Catherine, what an absolute joy!"
Fleur (Nature Escapes)
"I've never considered myself an artist but Catherine convinced me that everyone has the ability to make art. I let myself go wild with colours in a beautiful, pine-smelling woodland along with a varied group from toddlers to teens and adults. I loved the encouraging, accepting atmosphere!"
Saara (Bushmoot)
"The energy you give off is inspiring"
"We all got to paint a canvas today!"
"Great to have permission to go outside the box"
"Great to by inspired by art outside. And to now have a notebook and to have tried out notebook techniques"
Participants at the Bog Centre Workshop
"Catherine joined us for the second time on our recent retreat to deliver a beautiful bespoke art workshop! She curated an amazing session allowing our guests to find both their confidence and creative flow. I’d highly recommend booking her for your day or weekend retreat to add in some art magic! Her passion is infectious!"
Fleur (Nature Escapes)
"It was great having Catherine at the Summer BushMoot running a mix of Art workshops, the feedback has been amazing and she's welcome back any time!"
Tony (Bushmoot)
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