The Artist Ali draws inspiration from everyday people and everyday things and is endlessly fascinated by people and their stories, particularly their memories of ordinary home and working lives. Wherever possible she works with old and used materials. Seeking out fragments of old clothing, household linens and the everyday bits & pieces that are … Continue reading Kitchen Tales – Cloth Collage with Ali Ferguson 5 & 6 October 2024 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist 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 … Continue reading Nature Memory Box with Anne Kelly – 2nd & 3rd November 2024

  Helen Hallows is a restless landscape artist who wishes that every day could be spent in the studio. Reluctant to limit herself, being a mixed-media artist allows her to endlessly try new combinations of materials and keep on experimenting. Known for her landscapes, these have moved towards abstraction where she enjoys the combinations of … Continue reading Embracing Autumn with Helen Hallows – 9 November 2024 – Fully Booked, please email to be added to waiting list

  The Artist Following her wonderful exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching show in November 2023 we are delighted that mixed media artist Sabine Kaner will be joining us at Hope and Elvis for a workshop packed with creativity. If you enjoy mixed media textiles this workshop is perfect for you!  Sabine’s textile practice is … Continue reading “Stitching Stories”with Sabine Kaner 16 & 17 November 2024 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

The Artist Slow Lane Studio forages, cultivates and uses plants to create colour for textiles, paper, printmaking and pigments.  Wanting to be more environmentally aware, buy and consume fewer products and generate less waste, Jacqui began exploring natural colour and dyes and developed the use of plant-based pigments for oil-based printmaking inks.  She expanded into … Continue reading Screenprinting with Natural Dyes onto Fabric – Jacqui Symons – 23 & 24 November 2024 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

  Sally Kheng studied Art, Design and Business Studies at Trent College and Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She has spent many years sketching and painting her local Lincolnshire landscape. “I see the landscapes in vivid shades and I want to share my rose-tinted glasses with the viewer. I first depict the subject … Continue reading Inspiration Sketchbook with Sally Kheng – 1 March 2025

  Sophie is an established mosaic artist and workshop tutor. She once attended a workshop, which sparked a hobby, and is now a full-time business. Her enthusiasm for the craft is infectious and she loves nothing more than passing her love of mosaic onto others. Her own mosaic creations consist of bespoke art pieces, large … Continue reading Garden Mosaic Workshop with Sophie Robins – 29 March 2025 – Fully booked, please email to be added to waiting list

  Helen Hallows is a restless landscape artist who wishes that every day could be spent making. Reluctant to limit herself, her art crosses genres and she works with paint, textiles, and more recently ceramics. Known for her landscapes, these have moved towards abstraction where she enjoys the combinations of textures and marks to express … Continue reading Summoning Spring with Helen Hallows – 5 April 2025

The Artist Jessica Grady is an award winning embroidery artist, tutor and author from West Yorkshire. Her work is a colourful and creative exploration of hand stitch and mixed media, and she utilises waste and recycled materials, which are transformed into exciting embellishments. Jessica’s work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe and Asia, and … Continue reading Sketchbook – Stitch Day with Jessica Grady – 6 April 2025

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

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

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

  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 do’s! 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

  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