2015
PROGRAMME
OF
COURSES
THE OLD KENNELS
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THE OLD KENNELS
Situated on the Devon Somerset border, in the heart of The
Blackdown Hills close to Dunkeswell Airfield, we offer a quiet
rural retreat, where you can learn or improve skills in a variety
of traditional arts, skills and crafts.
Classes are tutored by professional local, national and international
artists and makers. We are proud to have been classified for the ninth sucessive
year as Gold standard by The Green Tourism Business Scheme.
The Old Kennels is a flint barn set in 25 acres of beautiful woodlands and
permanent pasture, originally part of The Stentwood Estate built by squire
Eccles in the 1890’s. Classes are held in the garden room, studio, or out of doors
as is appropriate to the class and the weather.
How to find us:
We are located between Hemyock and Dunkeswell, just 15 minutes from Honiton. For more detailed
directions please see our website, where you will find directions from different approaches including links
to public transport providers. Let us know if you would like a lift share.
From Hemyock;
We hope you will enjoy the serenity of our surroundings and our programme
of events.
TAUNTON
A303 TO
LONDON
27
Hemyock
Tiverton
The Old Kennels
Cullompton
28
A303
Dunkeswell
A373
A30
Combe
Raleigh
Should you require overnight accommodation, we offer four star graded B&B in
the very comfortable loft above our studio (please ask for a brochure).
The area has much to offer if you wish to extend your stay. Including excellent
dining, many varied air activities, golf, fishing, walking, cycling, ancient
woodlands, historic houses, The Jurassic coastline and the beautiful Blackdown
Hills themselves.
26
Wellington
Honiton
A30 TO EXETER
Tel:
01823 681138
www.theoldkennels.co.uk
Take the road marked ‘Dunkeswell’
beside the Catherine Wheel pub.
Follow this road for approximately
five miles, approximately 1/2 a mile
after passing Gypsy Cross (a cross
roads), turn left into small drive
marked Stentwood (if you reach
the airfield you have gone too far),
follow lane slowly (large drain half
way down!) to bottom of hill, turn
left back on your self before you
drive onto gravel at bottom.
From Dunkeswell;
Follow main road through the Village
and past the airfield. Approximately
half a mile after seeing the airfield,
take first right (small drive marked
Stentwood), follow lane slowly
(large drain half way down!) to
bottom of hill, turn left back on your
self before you drive onto gravel at
bottom.
Lampwork
UPHOLSTERY
ENCAUSTIC
TILES
Tracey Bell
Thomas Payne
Jo Dove
TUESDAY 27TH JANUARY
MONDAY 2ND AND TUESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY
WEDS 4TH FEBRUARY 2015 & WEDS 4TH MARCH
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads you
will adore this introductory class! You will make your
own lampwork glass beads using a bench mounted
oxygen/propane torch; learning the basic principles
of working safely and understanding your equipment
and materials. There will be ample opportunity to
try several shapes of bead and work in your choice of
colours, as well as some basic surface decoration.
Bring a chair in need of love and your choice of fabric.
You will learn how to upholster a simple drop in seat
pad or how to re-spring a “stuff over” seat on a dining
chair or stool.
Taking inspiration from Encaustic tile designs as found at
Dunkeswell Abbey this course will look at the traditional
way that inlaid or ‘Encaustic’ tiles were made. We will
be exploring the use of print to make an impression in
clay that can be filled with different coloured clays to
enhance the design. There will also be other methods
used in contemporary ceramics that give similar results
to inlay tiles, which are easier and quicker to achieve.
This is a two part workshop; you will make the clay tiles
to your own or historic designs on the first day and finish
them with glazes on the second day, tiles will be available
to collect a week or so later, this allows time for the
processes of drying and kiln firing.
GLASS BEAD
MAKING
£65 (INCLUDING ALL GAS AND GLASS)
Students will learn how to strip off the old upholstery
and replace this using traditional techniques including;
application of webbing, stuffing seats with hair, forming
and stitching edges, how to tie springs and create a
smooth durable comfortable seat.
£110 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £15-£45
DEPENDING ON SEAT)
£110 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROX. £20)
WATERCOLOURS
Introductory
class
MARMALADE
DAY
Artisan Baking
VIENNOISERIE
Penny Williams &
Dragan Matijevic
Meriel Thursan
Tracey Bell
THURSDAY 5TH FEBRUARY
MONDAY 9TH FEBRUARY
TUESDAY 10TH FEBRUARY
Apples can be found in different shapes and colours.
During this class you will learn how to portray a
Cox’s Orange Pippin with botanical accuracy in an
aesthetically pleasing way, using watercolour paints.
Simply bring a couple of apples with markings, such
as a Cox’s Orange Pippin, and whatever art materials
you have - watercolours, brushes, pencils, eraser, plain
white plate, board and smooth white watercolour paper
(preferably Hot Press), cheap layout paper or printer
copy paper. Don’t buy anything specially!
Just the way to start the New Year with a fresh batch
of homemade marmalade! Spend a relaxed day in the
kitchen at The Old Kennels savouring the aroma of
hot Seville oranges and take away the fruit of your
labours to enjoy all year round. We will make four
marmalades using different techniques; classic Seville
Orange, Lemon & Lime, Orange & Apricot, Pineapple
& Orange marmalades.
Hand-made croissants, pain au chocolat and Danish
pastries are a million miles away from their mass
produced cousins, and well worth a little extra trouble
if you want to treat yourself or your friends.
£55 (BRING YOUR OWN MATERIALS)
£45 (INCLUDING MATERIALS, JUST BRING A PINNY)
£95 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
This very special course will only accommodate four
students and teaches the principles of making a welllaminated yeasted dough, and shaping it into a variety of
delectably airy, buttery and beautiful creations.
ENAMELLING
COLLAGRAPH
Introductory
class
BOTANICAL
PENCIL
DRAWING
Leaves
Linda Hampson
Jeanette Ward
Simon Ripley
TUESDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
WEDNESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
TUESDAY 3RD MARCH
During this taster day, learn about the ancient art of
vitreous enamelling; the alchemy of fusing glass to
metal.
Collagraph is an exciting way of creating a highly
textured print from a variety of materials collaged
onto a cardboard plate. It can be printed in an infinite
variety of ways using both intaglio and relief printing
techniques. Your tutor Simon Ripley is one of the
founders of Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter.
Coloured pencil is a marvellously versatile medium.
It is genuinely an easy medium to master and so I
invite you to join me in a workshop. You will learn
how to layer and blend and various other ‘tricks’
and techniques. Beginners and improvers welcome.
You will learn how to prepare metal and enamels,
experience kiln firing, whilst exploring possibilities
of sifting, stencilling and sgraffito and finishing copper
jewellery or small art pieces. No previous jewellery or
metalworking is required.
£55 (PLUS MATERIALS AS USED APPROXIMATELY £10,
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE
TUTOR AS/IF REQUIRED)
£75 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
£45 (PLUS MATERIALS AS/IF REQUIRED)
PLEASE ENQUIRE ABOUT OUR REGULAR MONTHLY
BOTANICAL DRAWING CLASSES
NATURAL
DYEING AND
PRINTING
Traditional
cold process
STONE CARVING
Flora Arbuthnott
& Babs Behan
Ishbel Ramsay
Kate Semple
THURSDAY 12TH AND FRIDAY 13TH MARCH
WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH
THURSDAY 26TH & FRIDAY 27TH MARCH
Learn how to identify, harvest and process dye plants
and food waste. Creating environmentally friendly
natural dyes and pigments by extracting colour from
plants with hot dyeing techniques. We will use these
pigments to dye, screen print, and potato print on to
organic UK grown and manufactured peace silk. You
will come away with a hand printed and dyed silk scarf
and a range of colour samples.
An introduction to traditional cold process soap
making. You will take home a kilo of natural soap
(approximately 20 bars) scented with your choice of
essential oils. A relaxing day producing wonderful gifts,
or a bespoke soap to enjoy yourself. You will receive
full written instructions so you can make more at home
as well as simple ideas for wrapping and presentation.
The Green Man has been a rich part of English folklore
for centuries, come and carve your own in Bath stone
over two very full days with tutor Kate Semple. She will
guide you step by step through the different stages of
stone carving, using the same techniques and tools as
the medieval carvers would have hundreds of years ago.
£110 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £15 OR AS REQUIRED)
£55 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £25 PER KILO MADE)
£120 (PLUS £20 MATERIALS)
Silk scarf
Green Man
SOAP MAKING
Traditional
SUSSEX TRUG
SPOON
CARVING
Tom O'Reilly M.A
John Carnell
Sean Hellman
WEDNESDAY 15TH AND THURSDAY 16TH APRIL
WEDNESDAY 22ND & THURSDAY 23RD APRIL
WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL
This unique and fun course is a beginner’s guide to the
basics of this fascinating craft. You will learn several
styles of sewing and binding including Coptic binding
and traditional case binding and work on two small
projects. Tom O’Reilly M.A has been a book binder
for over twenty years and he has taught the art of hand
bookbinding, tutored and lectured at BA and MA level.
All materials needed for workshop are provided.
Learn the secrets of hand-crafting traditional steamed
Sussex Garden trugs made of ‘cricket bat’ Willow and
Sweet Chestnut under the instruction of a traditional
Sussex trug maker. You will cleave the timber, shape
panels, frame and handle with a drawknife, then steam
the Chestnut and soak the Willow before assembling
your trug with copper nails. This is a very special and
rarely seen course which employs only hand tools and
where you will construct your trug from tree to finish.
All tools are provided and no experience is necessary.
£110 (PLUS APPROXIMATELY £15 MATERIALS)
£120 (PLUS APPROXIMATELY £25 MATERIALS)
We use spoons every day and usually give them little
thought. They are wonderful examples of 3d design and
art meeting function, with their almost infinite variety
of shapes and form. People have carved wooden spoons
since we began working wood, a tradition that is still
alive today with more and more people taking up this
practical and rewarding pastime.
Spoons come in all shapes and sizes: eating, serving,
cooking, sculptural, and love-spoons. This workshop
will concentrate on spoons for eating with, and smaller
serving spoons. Depending on your ability, you will
take home at least one spoon and the techniques used
in making, so you can continue making spoons at home.
Spoon carving tools will be on sale at the workshop.
Beginners and improvers welcome.
BOOK BINDING
For beginners
£65 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
Hand forged
RUSTIC FIRE
TOOLS
Precious
Metal Clay
Introductory
class
Poison ring
PRECIOUS METAL
CLAY
Improvers
class
Richard Wood
Tracey Spurgin
Tracey Spurgin
SATURDAY 9TH AND SUNDAY 10TH MAY
MONDAY 11TH MAY
TUESDAY 12TH AND WEDNESDAY 13TH MAY
Create your own hand forged fire pit, barbeque
or fireside tools or accessories to your own simple
designs, under the expert guidance of Richard Wood,
a blacksmith and metals lecturer for nine years at
Plymouth College of Art. You will be taught how to
safely get a heat, bending and shaping steel using the
hammer and the anvil to make useful items. All tools
and safety equipment will be supplied. Technique is
everything during this course and it is therefore suitable
for all to enjoy.
This workshop is aimed at the beginner. Working
with two of the main silver clay products, you will be
guided step by step, through the techniques of handling,
shaping, forming & moulding, to make three complete
pieces. We aim to give you the skills and techniques that
become the sound foundation for achieving the best
results with silver metal clay.
Once believed to have been made to conceal poison to
administer to your enemy, now this ring can have a far
more innocent purpose and carry a token of friendship,
gratitude, a lock of hair or another memento.
£140 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £20)
£65 (PLUS MATERIALS £55)
£120 (PLUS MATERIALS £65)
The threaded screw top cleverly integrates into the
piece to add an attractive feature to this statement ring.
CASTING IN
PEWTER
Artisan
FORAGE
SUMMER PARTY
BREADS
A wild food
journey
Tracey Spurgin
Penny Williams &
Dragan Matijevic
Dave Hamilton
THURSDAY 14TH MAY
WEDNESDAY 20TH MAY
FRIDAY 22ND MAY
Contemporary lead free pewter offers a low cost
alternative to your silver jewellery. Pewter is a softer
metal with a low melting point which make it easy
to cast, into fabulous pendants, charms or home
decorations. You’ll quickly pick up the basics, so this is
a great opportunity to work on your own design ideas.
All the romantic aromas of a Mediterranean summer
evening; the basil, the rosemary, the olives, the garlic
and, weather permitting, even the scent of wood smoke
as Dragan bakes ‘pekka’ bread for you in the garden.
Mozzarella-stuffed focaccia, juicy ciabatta, chic little
bread shots and Moroccan fougasses … a range of
artisan creations to get your summer parties off to a
fabulous start.
As the first leaves of spring unfold so does a larder of
choice edibles. Learn to select the tastiest edible plants
from the fields and hedgerows around The Old Kennels
with experienced forager & author Dave Hamilton. As
you take your expertly guided forage into the wild for
the plants in season, you will collect leaves and edibles
for lunch, return to prepare & enjoy these, then look at
ways to preserve your seasonal gatherings to make tasty
pestos, soups and salads along with identifying edible
spring flowers. Beginners and old hands welcome!
£65 (PLUS MATERIALS £35)
£65 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
£65 (INCLUDING VEGETARIAN LUNCH)
PICTORIAL
MARQUETRY
Adventures in
LAPIDARY
Quentin Smith
Jon Foster
Jim Edmondson
MONDAY 1ST AND TUESDAY 2ND JUNE
WEDNESDAY 3RD & THURSDAY 4TH JUNE
MONDAY 8TH JUNE
Students will learn the ‘window’ method of marquetry
construction, hand cutting hardwood veneers
to produce one or more small pictorial panels.
Enhancement techniques such as sand-shading will
also be covered. Panels may be used as small pictures,
mounted on greeting cards or fitted into items such as
glass coasters.
Bring inspiration and imagination, whether you’re an inventor
or an artist, or would simply like a number for your house,
come and explore traditional techniques for casting molten
metal with experienced foundryman Jon Foster.
All aspects of moulding and casting using traditional greensand
methods (to include running, gating, sprueing) and casting
safely will be covered. Casts will be in aluminium and students
will produce small items approx. 4x6” with a surface thickness
of about 5mm.
Oil bonded sand will be used to produce fine detail, so anything
is possible, cast from nature – hands, leaves etc, try carving
from plaster in relief using sgraffito methods or bring items you
would like to reproduce such as a china bowl or even a biscuit.
A relaxed course with plenty of content to fuel your
imagination!
A hands on course to create your own gemstone,
you will cut, grind, polish and finish slices of natural
semi-precious rock in to beautiful cabochon stones for
setting in silver or simply to keep and enjoy - it’s not
magic its lapidary!
Introductory
class
Suitable for complete beginners.
£125 (PLUS MATERIALS AS REQUIRED APPROXIMATELY £10)
ALUMINIUM
SAND CASTING
£125 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £30)
£75 (PLUS NOMINAL CHARGE FOR MATERIALS
APPROXIMATELY £5 PER SLICE)
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As places are limited, full payment is required in order to make a booking.This
is refundable/exchangeable up to four weeks prior to a course, after which
refunds and exchanges can only be made if your place is immediately filled from
a waiting list. If we find it necessary to change, amend or cancel a class we will
refund you in full, or rebook you as required.
Full requirements lists will be supplied on receipt of your booking. Please use a
separate form for each person attending. Gift vouchers are available on request.
Please remember to keep a copy of the classes you have booked.
If you do not wish to join our mailing list by post or email please tick here
As you will see from our website, we post photographs of our classes online
if you object to being in a photo used in this way please tick here
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THE OLD KENNELS
WORKING WITH
SILVER
DRYPOINT &
MONOPRINT
Lampwork
Julian Livingstone
Lynn Bailey
Tracey Bell
TUESDAY 9TH AND WEDNESDAY 10TH JUNE
FRIDAY 12TH JUNE
MONDAY 22ND JUNE
Ever popular, this two day class with a professional silver
smith is aimed at complete beginners and improvers.
Starting with sheet metals and expert guidance you
will learn to cut, shape, solder, bezel set stones and
polish to make small items of jewellery, a sugar spoon
or other trinkets and keepsakes to your own designs.
You are welcome to work in gold or other metals by
prior arrangement.
Combine the drawing and experimental mark-making
of drypoint with the immediacy on mono prints.
Focusing on the Devon environment.
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads you
will adore this introductory class! You will make your
own lampwork glass beads using a bench mounted
oxygen/propane torch; learning the basic principles
of working safely and understanding your equipment
and materials. There will be ample opportunity to
try several shapes of bead and work in your choice of
colours, as well as some basic surface decoration.
£120 (PLUS MATERIALS BY WEIGHT - APPROXIMATELY
£1.95P/GM INC. SOLDER, FLUX AND CONSUMABLES)
£85 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
Devon Guild member Lynn Bailey is a founder of
Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter where she
regularly teaches. Lynn works across all print media to
produce beautiful prints which draw on the cycles of
renewal in nature. Lynn’s latest bee prints are the result
of a residency studying the bees kept in hives on the
roof of Princesshay in Exeter.
GLASS BEAD
MAKING
£65 (INCLUDING GLASS AND GAS)
Paper
MArBLING
ENAMELLING
ON 3D FORMS
Ann Pengelly
Jemma Lewis
Jeanette Ward
TUESDAY 30TH JUNE & WEDNESDAY 1ST JULY
THURSDAY 2ND JULY
MONDAY 6TH AND TUESDAY 7TH JULY
Explore the diversity of stained glass panels - using
copper foil & lead work. A voyage of discovery through
these fascinating techniques culminating in a finished
panel, up to a square foot in size (larger pieces can be
started but will not necessarily be completed in the two
days). This class is suitable for complete beginners as
well as improvers.
Hand Marbled paper is often found inside the covers of
quality books, you will not want to hide your beautiful
creations! Wonderful for decoration of the covers
(inside or out) of your books. A useful and interesting
technique, as at home on paper as it is on fabric. A rare
opportunity to be taught by a professional. All materials
are provided, a really fun day, simply bring a pinny and
wear old clothes, very addictive!
Learn how to add enamel to shaped and formed 3D
jewellery/art pieces in copper. Some basic metal
smithing techniques will be demonstrated on copper
including folding, repousse and chasing. It is advised
that beginners should attend the enamelling taster day
in February prior to this course as wet and dry vitreous
enamels will be explored and fired as decoration on
your own designs.
£65 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
£65 (PLUS MATERIALS AS USED APPROXIMATELY £10,
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE
TUTOR AS/IF REQUIRED)
STAINED GLASS
leadwork and
copper foiling
£110 PLUS MATERIALS AS REQUIRED APPROXIMATELY £20
TO INCLUDE PRACTICE GLASS, LEAD, FOIL AND GLASS
FOR A FINISHED PANEL UP TO 12” SQUARE (FURTHER
MATERIALS AVAILABLE IF REQUIRED)
SOMERSET
WILLOW
GATHERING
BASKET
Traditional
cold process
BRONZE
CASTING
Hilary Burns
Ishbel Ramsay
Shane Whitehead
WEDNESDAY 8TH & THURSDAY 9TH JULY
TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
OR WEDNESDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER
TUESDAY 29TH/WEDNESDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER &
TUESDAY 6TH/WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER
An introduction to traditional cold process soap
making. You will take home a kilo of natural soap
(approximately 20 bars) scented with your choice of
essential oils. A relaxing day producing wonderful gifts,
or a bespoke soap to enjoy yourself. You will receive
full written instructions so you can make more at home
as well as simple ideas for wrapping and presentation.
This bronze casting course is designed to take students
through the ancient lost wax casting process. The
course will take students though the techniques needed
to create your own bronze casting. The first two days
will cover; wax sculpting and creating a casting tree, the
second two days will be spent casting your sculpture,
finishing your castings and finally touch on patination
techniques. The course is suited to all levels of ability
and experience.
Make a beautiful oblong basket with a sturdy central
handle suitable for harvesting fruit, gathering vegetables
or popping to the shop. You will use willow from
the Somerset Levels to weave this adaptable basket.
Complex weaves and designs can be incorporated if you
already have some basket making experience. Beginners
are welcome on this course.
£120 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £20)
SOAP MAKING
£55 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £25 PER KILO MADE)
£250 FOR FOUR DAYS (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £65)
Wooden Market
STICK
Homebrewed
BEER
Artisan
bread baking
HERITAGE
GRAINS
Gethin Davies
Richard Masters
Penny Williams &
Dragan Matijevic
THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER
THURSDAY 8TH OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY 21ST OCTOBER
Come and make a traditional ‘Market Stick’ (also perfect
for blackberry picking!) with the very talented Gethin
Davies, from West Wales. Gethin will take you through
‘roughing out’ a wooden handled blank, shaping and
sanding it and attaching it to a stick. You may like to
finish it at home depending on how highly polished you
would like it to be. Gethin will demonstrate the final
steps so you will be well equipped to complete your
project with a stain, polish or lacquer finish at home in
your own time. The perfect introduction to a popular
heritage craft, beginners and improvers welcome!
An opportunity to learn the basics of home brewing,
if you have never tried this rewarding pastime or
have maybe tried and not got it quite right, this
day is definitely for you. You will also leave with an
appreciation and understanding of why home and micro
brewed beers are superior to their mass produced
cousins. There will be opportunity to sample beers
during the day so you may wish to make arrangements
for travel.
£65 (PLUS APPROXIMATELY £15 MATERIALS)
£65 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
Learn to make the bread of emperors and pharaohs!
Ancient heritage grains include einkorn, khorasan,
spelt and taller wheats. With fewer chromosomes
than modern, hybridised grains, they offer better bioavailability of nutrients and are much easier to digest.
The flour they yield is more challenging to handle, but
with the techniques you will learn in this class, you
can produce loaves of unrivalled texture, flavour and
character - fit for a king.
£65 (INCLUDING MATERIALS)
CLOG MAKING
WORKING WITH
SILVER
Trefor Owen
Julian Livingstone
TUESDAY 3RD AND WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER
TUESDAY 10TH AND WEDNESDAY 11TH
NOVEMBER
Trefor has been making traditional clogs for almost 40
years, taught by elderly clog makers in both Yorkshire
& Lancashire, he makes fine dance and Morris clogs as
well as those for everyday and work use. Trefor has even
made designer clogs for the catwalk.You will hand craft
your own pair of clogs with a wooden sole and leather
or Lorica (vegan equivalent) tops in a traditional lace up
style. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn a rarely
taught heritage craft.
£160 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £25)
Ever popular, this two day class with a professional silver
smith is aimed at complete beginners and improvers.
Starting with sheet metals and expert guidance you
will learn to cut, shape, solder, bezel set stones and
polish to make small items of jewellery, a sugar spoon
or other trinkets and keepsakes to your own designs.
You are welcome to work in gold or other metals by
prior arrangement.
£120 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £1.95P/GM INC.
SOLDER, FLUX AND CONSUMABLES)
Simple
PRINTMAKING
ON FABRIC
Flora Arbuthnott
THURSDAY 12TH AND FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
We will explore a range of fabric printing techniques.
Starting with lino and potato printing and moving on
to screen printing (with paper stencils), looking at
how you can make repeat patterns and create multiple
colour designs. You’ll come away with your own hand
printed fabric to make a couple of cushions. You will
leave with the expertise you need to get going.
£110 (PLUS MATERIALS APPROXIMATELY £15 OR AS
REQUIRED)
Lampwork
HAND FELTED
SEEDPODS
PAPER CUTTING
Tracey Bell
Gladys Paulus
Jessica Palmer
TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER
WEDNESDAY 25TH AND THURSDAY 26TH NOVEMBER
TUESDAY 1ST DECEMBER
If you’re mesmerised by the beauty of glass beads you
will adore this introductory class! You will make your
own lampwork glass beads using a bench mounted
oxygen/propane torch; learning the basic principles of
working safely and understanding your equipment and
materials.
Inspired by the season and using the humble seedpod as
a starting point, during this two-day workshop with felt
artist Gladys Paulus you will learn how to create hollow
pods, protrusions and surface texture using a variety of
wet felting techniques, including 2- or 3-dimensional
resists.
In order to help focus on the shape and sculptural
qualities of felt, the use of colour in each pod will be
restricted to a maximum of two colours.
This workshop is suitable for felt makers with
experience of creating 3-dimensional wet felt work
around a resist only.
An introduction to the delicate art of paper cutting with
artist Jessica Palmer.
£130 (PLUS £15 MATERIALS)
£55 (PLUS £15 MATERIALS)
GLASS BEAD
MAKING
There will be ample opportunity to try several shapes
of bead and work in your choice of colours, as well as
some basic surface decoration.
£65 (INCLUDING GLASS AND GAS)
Just bring inspiration and images, Jessica will guide
you through techniques to translate your ideas
into intricate and beautifully defined paper cuts.
These powerful yet delicate images will make your
heart sing!
ILLUMINATED
AND EMBOSSED
DESIGNS
BOTANICAL
PENCIL
DRAWING
THE ART OF
CHOCOLATE
Tangerines and
Filberts
Seasonal
Handmade
Gifts
Alma Swan
Linda Hampson
Gill Coates
THURSDAY 3RD DECEMBER
MON 7TH DECEMBER
WEDNESDAY 9TH DECEMBER
Whether you love sumptuous medieval manuscripts or
prefer a colourful modern take, this lively-paced day
will introduce you to creating richly decorated letters
and designs for greetings cards, bookplates or framed
items. You will also emboss part of your design to add
that touch of distinction. Create your own cards or a
personalised festive gift that is truly original.
Coloured pencil is a marvellously versatile medium. It is
genuinely an easy medium to master and so I invite you
to join me in a workshop. You will learn how to layer,
blend as well as various other ‘tricks’ and techniques.
Beginners and improvers welcome.
Trained by the world renowned school of chocolate
making ‘Valrhona’, Gill has taught the techniques of
chocolatiers in both France and England. This festive
chocolate class is designed to be fun, you will learn
how to make truly handmade chocolates at home
without the need for specialist equipment. Using the
finest chocolate and flavouring ingredients, you will
temper, dip and mould, gaining the confidence to create
professionally finished handmade chocolates at home as
gifts for family and friends, or simply to enjoy yourself!
£45 (PLUS MATERIALS AS/IF REQUIRED)
INCLUDING A GLASS OF FESTIVE CHEER WITH LUNCH
£55 (PLUS MATERIALS £15)
INCLUDING A GLASS OF FESTIVE CHEER WITH LUNCH
PLEASE ENQUIRE ABOUT OUR REGULAR MONTHLY
BOTANICAL DRAWING CLASSES
£45 (PLUS MATERIALS £15)
INCLUDING A GLASS OF FESTIVE CHEER WITH LUNCH
Beautiful 4 star
AC C O M M O DAT I O N
in the Blackdown Hills
Why not take a short break
and book bed & breakfast in the tastefully
converted loft above our studio
Can also be booked as a self contained
two bedroom/bathroom suite with lounge, kitchenette and
roof terrace with far reaching views across the valley
Tel:
01823 681138
www.theoldkennels.co.uk
Things you need to know...
Classes usually run from 10am - 4pm (unless otherwise stated
on your confirmation, some classes may be slightly longer days)
We will be glad to welcome you from 9.45am for coffee.
Hot and cold drinks are inclusive and served throughout the day.
Lunch is served as a sit down ‘bring and share’ buffet. Please
bring a small plate of food to share, or lunch can be prebooked
at a cost of £5 per day.
Wheelchair/disabled access is limited for certain classes, for
your uninterrupted enjoyment of classes, please call us prior to
booking to discuss your individual needs.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
It is our aim to impact on our environment as little as possible. We compost and recycle keenly, use
natural cleaning products and do our best to shop ethically and locally. We embrace organic principles
with our animals and on our land, growing as much of our own food as possible. Our conservatory
works well to passively heat our house, teamed with a wood fuelled boiler and solar thermal panels to
heat our well water and guest accommodation. We generate electricity using photo voltaic panels and
source the balance from 100% renewable suppliers. Our printing is on recycled or chlorine free paper
made from pulp from sustainable forests. All inks used are made from vegetable based oils. We are
pleased to be part of the Green Tourism Business Scheme and rated as Gold Standard.
Open Studio Facility
We operate an open studio facility which enables you to use the
studio and equipment at your convenience and allows you to
continue exploring skills which you learn during the classes here
in our supervised and fully equipped studio environment.
Although you will not be given tuition, you will have support
and assistance should you need it and most importantly time to
experiment!
Booking is essential and conditional that you have already
attended a full class on your subject here in order to satisfy
all health and safety requirements.
Tariff for use of studio
Silver work or stained glass £25 per person per day - includes use of
equipment and studio.
Lampworking £10 per hour - includes use of torch, kiln & tools,
as well as glass and gas used.
Silver sheet, wire and consumables available to purchase, or bring your
own. Drink making facilities available. Just bring a packed lunch.
Tel:
01823 681138
www.theoldkennels.co.uk
The Old Kennels, Stentwood, Dunkeswell, Devon EX14 4RW
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