Benefield Spencer Glass, the North Antrim Coast’s only glassblowing studio, is inviting you behind the doors of their private studio to experience the magic of molten glass. Hands on glassmaking experience at Benefield Spencer Glass studio, located just a few miles inland from Ballintoy village. The experience includes demonstrations by professional glassmaker Andrea Spencer and takes a step … Continue reading Glassmaking Experience – Glass Making From Nature, Colours Of The Causeway Coast
Join tutor Linda O'Kane and learn various stitches, then combine them into a story cloth of your own. The workshop was inspired by the colourful embroidered story cloths of the Hmong people of Laos, richly portraying their lives. All materials will be provided but please bring your own scissors to sessions. About the tutor: Linda … Continue reading Folk Art Embroidery Workshop
In this five-week course Fiona Shannon will teach participants the basics of hand-building including slab building, coiling, pinch pots and using press moulds to create a variety of different pots such as vases and bowls. In the last session, they will add colour to your pots using a variety of slips. Should participants have any … Continue reading 5-Week Hand-Building Course for Beginners & Improvers (Series 1)
Join tutor Andrea McCullough-Alderdice and explore the potter’s wheel and full range of hand-building techniques from pinch pots to coil and slab building, whilst experimenting with slips, velvet underglazes and a full range of glazes. The cost includes all materials & firings; the course runs every Wednesday for six weeks.
Join The Clay Project this autumn for a two part workshop creating and glazing your very own ceramic pumpkin patch. Participants will make up to three stoneware pumpkins using handbuilding techniques on September 21st and return on the 5th October for the glazing session. The pumpkin patch will be fired and ready to collect from … Continue reading 2 PART PUMPKIN PATCH @ THE ASH
Andrea Hayes works from her home studio in Cookstown, County Tyrone and has won numerous textile art awards and exhibited throughout Ireland. In this two night adult workshop, you'll discover how to paint freely onto silk. This will involve outlining the image using gutta on the first evening and then painting using specialist paints on the second. … Continue reading Silk Painting Workshop with Andrea Hayes
Join tutor Jacki Bradley for a relaxed session of sewing as you learn the basics of patchwork by sewing a Spinning Star Block. You will then learn the basics of quilting as we machine quilt your finished star. All materials will be provided for the star and quilting. This will be finished as a cushion … Continue reading Make a Quilted Cushion Cover
This workshop is an introduction to the traditional craft of woodcarving. The tutor, Geoff Tulip, an innovative woodturner and woodcarver, will guide participants throughout the day, explaining and demonstrating simple techniques in relief carving. Each attendee will learn how to create their own hand-carved piece to take home. All tools and wood are provided for … Continue reading Wood Carving September
This workshop will be an interactive exploration of drawing and making marks in response to and alongside found objects. Stuart Cairns, who is exhibiting at Island Arts Centre, will share his influences and inspiration behind his work while encouraging participants to explore scale and try different mediums and techniques for their own mark making. There … Continue reading Drawing with Found Objects
This workshop will be a fun introduction to glassblowing! Join tutor Helen Hancock and learn how to make your own glass bauble or bespoke glass art. Under her supervision, you will be working with specialist equipment and tools and with a furnace running at 1150 degrees. Protective eyewear and long sleeves are essential. Strictly over … Continue reading Bauble making workshop
This workshop will be a fun introduction to glassblowing! Join tutor Helen Hancock and learn how to make your own glass bauble or bespoke glass art. Under her supervision, you will be working with specialist equipment and tools and with a furnace running at 1150 degrees. Protective eyewear and long sleeves are essential. Strictly over … Continue reading Bauble making workshop
This Autumn join Ellen for another exciting autumnal workshop! During this 2 week workshop you will create 3 of your own decorative pumpkins with Ellen Woods, a local ceramicist, you will be guided through each stage of the making process. The first week you will make 3 cute little decorative pumpkins and the second week … Continue reading Decorative Pumpkin Workshop
Time to add a little felted woolly fun to your Halloween décor! Patricipants will make at least one pumpkin and one toadstool during this 3-hour needle felting workshop. Once complete the creations can be added to wreaths, centrepieces or just adorn the mantelpiece over a roaring fire. Suitable for all abilities and children 12+ years … Continue reading Needle felted pumpkin and toadstool workshop
Natasha Duddy will teach glass fusing techniques to help participants design and create their Day of the Dead-themed skull decoration. Learning glass cutting and grinding skills, they can hang or frame their spooktacular masterpiece to decorate the home for Halloween. No previous experience required. Closed toe footwear must be worn.
Join The Clay Project for a spooky and creative evening at The Wild Hare, Newcastle: participants will explore surface pattern, colour and mark making on ceramics all whilst sipping on a delicious cocktail/mocktail. The tutors will take participants through the process of designing and decorating their own scary stoneware mug using a variety of painting … Continue reading Halloween Dress Up and Mug Decorating
This workshop, facilitated by local artist Millie Moore, will take a calmer, more measured approach to the creative process in discovering the simple pleasure of making, and will suit even the novice sewer. During the workshop participants will be working on linen using a simple running hand stitch using a variety of threads, many of … Continue reading Time, Traces and Threads: Slow Stitch
In this five-week course Fiona Shannon will teach participants the basics of hand-building including slab building, coiling, pinch pots and using press moulds to create a variety of different pots such as vases and bowls. In the last session, they will add colour to your pots using a variety of slips. Should participants have any … Continue reading 5-Week Hand-Building Course for Beginners & Improvers (Series 2)
Learn the basics of throwing on the pottery wheel to create a variety of different pots, mugs and bowls. You’ll also learn turning techniques and how to add handles and feet. In the last week you will add colour to your pots using a variety of slips. Should you have previous experience, Fiona Shannon will … Continue reading 5-Week Throwing Course for Beginners & Improvers
Ceramic Artist Fiona Shannon will guide you through designing and making your Christmas gingerbread house which you can use for your festive table. Designed for beginners, this class will be a fun creative environment to get crafty using a range of clay techniques. Your gingerbread house will be fired to be collected at a later … Continue reading Ceramic Gingerbread House Workshop
Contemporary designer and weaver Karolina Lisek from Little Tangle hosts a one-day tapestry weaving workshop exploring the art of hand weaving in a modern context. Karolina will teach the foundation skills of tapestry weaving with participants using her new larger sized frame looms. Participants will create an abstract wall hanging using a range of techniques … Continue reading Contemporary Weaving Workshop
