The studio will have been thoroughly cleaned beforehand and surfaces and handles will be cleaned throughout the day. The amount of students has been lowered to enable everyone to have a large working area with plenty of social distance. At each work station there will be a create with basic materials i.e. scissors, needles etc. … Continue reading How Hope & Elvis has adapted to Covid

As the title suggests, these sessions are a day to do whatever, a day for you. Bring along something you are working on or that piece of work you started and is now in a drawer somewhere waiting to be finished (and lets be honest we all have a few of those!) Between 10am & … Continue reading “Whatever Wednesdays”

I am very happy to be welcoming the wonderful Mrs B back to H&E to share with us this back by popular demand fantastic workshop! Mrs B’s Introduction To Gel Plate Printing Workshop Gel plate printing is a quick and effective way to create layered prints on paper and fabric. We will be experimenting with … Continue reading Mrs B’s Introduction To Gel Plate Printing 7th or 8th May 2022

About Mandy Pattullo trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an attic studio in a converted manse in rural Northumberland. I treasure the old and worn, refashioning vintage textiles into new collages which are embellished with stitch and appliqué. I re-cycle and reuse very old and often disintergrating materials which … Continue reading Vintage Textile Collage with Mandy Pattullo – 14th May 2022

About Mandy Pattullo trained as a Surface Pattern and Textile Designer and now work from an attic studio in a converted manse in rural Northumberland. I treasure the old and worn, refashioning vintage textiles into new collages which are embellished with stitch and appliqué. I re-cycle and reuse very old and often disintergrating materials which … Continue reading Red Work with Mandy Pattullo -15th May 2022

Alice’s process-led practice is based on recording personal experience of landscape. She works with natural fibres and gathered materials, employing natural dye techniques, print, stitch and weave in different combinations to create surfaces and structures. Alice takes an experimental approach to found items, learning about their properties, boundaries and possibilities through the making process. Alice … Continue reading Botanical Books with Alice Fox – 21st & 22nd May 2022

Join artist, author and tutor Anne Kelly for a new workshop presented for the first time at Hope and Elvis. Guided by Anne, you will be designing and making a unique piece of work to celebrate or remember a special pet or animal in your life. Using a photograph to design a collaged version of … Continue reading Pet Portraits with Anne Kelly – 28th & 29th May 2022

About Jessie Chorley Jessie Chorley is a London-based textile artist, specialising in embroidery and paper crafts. Born in Kent in1980, she spent her childhood in North Wales, before moving to London to study for the BA in Fine Art Textile Practice at Goldsmiths College. While still a student, she chose to dedicate her life to … Continue reading Stories in Stitch with Jessie Chorley – 17th & 18th June 2022

About Jessie Chorley Jessie Chorley is a London-based textile artist, specialising in embroidery and paper crafts. Born in Kent in 1980, she spent her childhood in North Wales, before moving to London to study for the BA in Fine Art Textile Practice at Goldsmiths College. While still a student, she chose to dedicate her life … Continue reading Altered and Repaired Garments and Objects with Jessie Chorley – 19th June 2022

It is with HUGE excitement that we welcome the Pale Rook to Hope & Elvis in 2022 I have been a huge admirer of Johanna’s work for some time, during the pandemic I took Johanna’s online course which was truly fantastic and influences me as an artist in my own practice every day so I … Continue reading The Pale Rook – 25th & 26th June or 6th & 7th August 2022 – *new dates*

Jayne is a practicing textile designer, author and tutor based in north Gloucestershire, UK. She has an MA in Fashion from Central St Martins and a 1st class degree in Textiles from Loughborough College of Art and Design. For the past 25 years she has created innovative textile samples that explore the boundaries of modern … Continue reading Water Soluble Magic with Jayne Emerson – 1st July 2022

  Helaina is a designer maker, based in West Yorkshire, creating 2D and 3D wirework. Her work is inspired for her love of tea and the rituals around tea drinking and is rooted in the elegance of the past, particularly the Edwardian era. Using old sepia photographs she creates pen and ink drawings that are … Continue reading Wire Work with Helaina Sharpley 2nd July 2022

About Liz Cooksey 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 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 insignificant … Continue reading Mixed Media Wire Workshop with Liz Cooksey – 13th & 14th August 2022

About Matthew Harris Matthew studied at Goldsmiths College and makes work in both paper and cloth that is primarily concerned with the exploration and exploitation of abstract imagery. Matthew has work in the Crafts Council Collection and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. He has exhibited widely throughout the U.K, Europe, U.S.A and Japan and in … Continue reading Back to Front and Back Again with Matthew Harris – 2nd , 3rd & 4th September 2022

Jayne is a practicing textile designer, author and tutor based in north Gloucestershire, UK. She has an MA in Fashion from Central St Martins and a 1st class degree in Textiles from Loughborough College of Art and Design. For the past 25 years she has created innovative textile samples that explore the boundaries of modern … Continue reading Experimental Needle Felting with Jayne Emerson – 9th September 2022

About Sue Brown Sue Brown is an artist who uses printmaking and mixed media to tell stories. Inspired by process as much as nature, her work springs from the pages of sketchbooks, and develops carefully researched themes, exploring and developing them on paper and textiles. Workshop Collagraph Printmaking onto Fabric Spend 2 days making and … Continue reading Collagraph Printmaking onto Fabric with Sue Brown – 17th & 18th September

About Rosie James Rosie James is a Textile Artist living and working in Kent, UK. She has a BA Hons Textiles degree from Surrey Institute of Art and Design and an MA in Textiles from Goldsmith College London. Rosie started off with a small business making dyed and screen printed fabrics, scarves, ties, cushions etc, … Continue reading Drawing with Stitch with Rosie James – 24th & 25th September 2022

About Claire Claire Wellesley-Smith is an artist, researcher and writer based in West Yorkshire. She specialises in projects that use local, natural colour, created from home-grown and locally foraged plants. Cloth, dye and stitch are then used as carriers of the natural and social history of place. She is a highly experienced tutor who works … Continue reading Stitching Connection with Claire Wellesley Smith – 30th Sept, 1st & 2nd October

About Mrs Bertimus, first of all I just want to say its a total pleasure to welcome Mrs Bertimus back to Hope & Elvis an outstanding artist who brings a little bit of magic (record player & Cake!) Mrs Bertimus studied fashion and textiles at Saint Martin’s School of Art and enjoyed three glorious years … Continue reading Mrs B’s Mixed Media Weekender – 5th & 6th November