Mandy Pattullo is a Northumberland based artist who creates textile collages. All of her work is hand stitched and she uses old and reclaimed textiles or transforms ordinary cloth through paint and simple print making as in this workshop. Mandy has written two books “Textile Collage” and “Textiles Transformed” which are published by Batsford. The … Continue reading Windowsill / Ben’s Pots with Mandy Pattullo – 26 & 27 April 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist Jane works from her studio at home in Stockport, across a range of disciplines, including embroidery, drawing and printmaking. Her latest work combines the processes of hand stitch with waterless lithography and screen-printing. Jane uses collage and hand colouring to develop series of variable edition prints on cloth and paper which are all … Continue reading From Sketchbook to Textile Art with Jane McKeating – 10th and 11th May 2025

The Artist Mrs B hardly needs an introduction – her workshops are always very popular! Mrs Bertimus studied fashion and textiles at Saint Martin’s School of Art and enjoyed three glorious years of making completely un-wearable garments. She has taught in Art Education for over twenty-five years and loves sharing techniques and eating lots of … Continue reading Drawing: From Realism to Abstraction with Mrs Bertimus – 17th May 2025

Tracey is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer working with knitted textiles and print. She has a degree in Fine Art and a Masters in site specific knitting. Her practice utilises craft skills of knitted textiles to explore social narratives of place associated with women’s histories, viewed within a contemporary art situation. While living in Shetland … Continue reading Colour Blending Masterclass with Tracey Doxey – 18 May 2025

The Artist Maria studied Embroidery at Manchester Polytechnic during the early 1990’s and has continued to practice and exhibit textiles ever since.   Her love of patchwork and quilting techniques combined with found objects and memories inspire her to create. Teaching and making textiles for over 30 years, she currently works at her home studio in … Continue reading Indigo: Resist & Renew with Maria Thomas – 7 June 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist Maria studied Embroidery at Manchester Polytechnic during the early 1990’s and has continued to practice and exhibit textiles ever since.   Her love of patchwork and quilting techniques combined with found objects and memories inspire her to create. Teaching and making textiles for over 30 years, she currently works at her home studio in … Continue reading Found Appliqué with Maria Thomas – 8 June 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist “I create bespoke textiles mixing media and building up tactile delicate surfaces. I work and rework my pieces with paint, dyes, bleach and ink, burning and layering until finishing it with hand stitch. I find beauty in flaky walls, overgrown buildings and encrusted surfaces; this is something I like to recreate in my … Continue reading Embroidered Wreath with Emily Notman – 14 June 2025

Priscilla Edwards began creating sculptural textiles while studying embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University. Here she was encouraged to nurture her love of found materials and transform the lost and overlooked into arresting works of art. These charming sculptures transcend the familiar qualities of the original materials and capture Priscilla’s perceptions of beauty, fragility and intrigue. … Continue reading Birds and Botanicals with Priscilla Edwards – 26 & 27 July 2025

  The Artist “My works combine wire and thread to create intricate and delicate two dimensional and three-dimensional works reflecting observations of nature. The inspiration stems from the love of natural forms in which I look for shapes, textures, colours, within what might be a hedge row or a motorway verge, recording the small and … Continue reading A Sense of Place with Liz Cooksey – 20 & 21 September 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

Join us for a long weekend of breaking the rules, permission to play and forgetting all the “should dos”! Deep dive into your creative aesthetic, explore textile techniques and mix them up in unusual ways. This will be an ideas incubator of a weekend, an exploration into YOU, and creating visual interpretations of this. You … Continue reading “No Rules” Retreat – Hope & Elvis – 26 to 28 September 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

Jenny Stevenson is a collage and book artist whose work explores the intersections of memory, architecture and community. She creates layered, textured works that evoke narratives of place and the passage of time. In recent years, she has focused on projects capturing the stories of workers and the legacy of industries that shaped local communities, … Continue reading Building Stories through Collage with Jenny Stevenson – 11 October 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

UK based textile artist Anne Kelly is an award-winning artist, author and tutor. Her multi-layered and densely stitched textiles have been described as ‘small worlds’. Trained in Canada and at Goldsmiths College in London, she creates wall hangings and objects using a mixture of mixed media collage and hand and machine embroidery. Her inspirations are … Continue reading Mid-Century Wallhanging with Anne Kelly – 18 & 19 October 2025

  Sue Brown is an artist who uses printmaking to tell stories. She is inspired by process as much as nature. Her work springs from the pages of her sketchbooks and she develops carefully researched themes using printmaking processes. Sue uses her work to explore the relationships we have with our garden visitors; she is … Continue reading Junk Journal with Paper Lithography – Sue Brown 25 & 26 October 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list