Workshops

Crochet a Blanket

£55/£52(c) • Friends £53/£50(c)

Infuse your life and home with colour and opulence inspired by the warmth and glorious enthusiasm of crochet queen Emma Leith. Throughout today’s sesh, you’ll learn to make the central motif for this beautifully bright blanket.  Emma shows you how to select your colours to optimum effect and will guide you through the ‘join as you go’ technique. Here’s the perfect workshop for those who want to take their crochet skills to the next level.

Naked Trees - Lino Printing

£48/£45(c) • Friends £46/£42(c)

Spend a day in wonder of the world of winter trees, using linocut to make original black and white prints. Lino artist Beth Jenkins shows you how to add touches of colour to your prints to increase atmospheric effect and will help you to plan, design, cut and print your blocks. Suitable for all levels, Beth guides you through the process and you’ll finish the day with a block that you can use time and time again, as well as a number of finished prints.

Visible Darning

£30/£27(c) • Friends £28/£25(c)

Have you grown weary of fast fashion and trying to find a way to be more sustainable with your clothing choices? Well so are we! The most sustainable clothing is the items you already have in your wardrobe and extending their life is the most eco thing we can do. So, now is the time to learn how to darn and to wear your mends with pride. During today’s workshop Katy Bevan will teach you all about visible mending, more akin to embroidery and embellishment that will make your favourite clothing even more bespoke and even more crucially, save it from landfill!

Candle Making

£38/£35(c) • Friends £36/£33(c)

Join Edward and Paula from the Beloit candle team for this evening’s brilliant workshop in which you’ll learn all the ins and outs of making the perfect candle. You’ll be guided through every step of the process to make your own natural soy wax candles. Soy candles are slow burning, environmentally and an opulent and sensory treat when your cosied up for the evening.

Mini Paper Corsets

£38/£35(c) • Friends £36/£33(c)

We’re delighted to introduce you to textile artist Corinne Hockley. In today’s workshop, Corinne will be helping you to create beautiful and nostalgic artworks which incorporate your old, discarded treasures. During today’s workshop Corinne will be showing you how to create a decorative mini paper corset. Working with paper and card you’ll learn how to construct a complete mini corset based on a historical pattern (don’t panic; there’s no stitching required!)  You’ll then be exploring unusual, individual and dynamic ways to embellish and decorate the corsets.

Valentine Bags

£48/£45(c) • Friends £46/£43(c)

With St. Valentine’s Day just around the corner have all matters of the heart on our minds.  Whether it’s a gift for yourself or for the one you love, today’s workshop will give you the perfect opportunity to create something every bit as special and unique as they are. We’re stoked to welcome back the magnificent Marion Bedford for a day of creating your own embroidered tattoo style slow stitch design. Today the emphasis is on using a few different embroidery stitches to enjoy the process of creating texture and bringing a richness to your work. Suitable for all abilities.

Screen Printing T's & Totes

£57/£54(c) • Friends £55/£52(c)

Spend the day with brilliant printmaker Andrew Kinnear to learn the art of paper stencil screen printing. This is one of the most versatile and exciting ways to print without the need for a press. During our Saturday workshop you’ll print a bespoke t-shirt and bag using your unique design – you’ll be amazed how this deceptively simple method can produce varied prints from just one stencil. Today’s course is ideal for all abilities so you can be as intricate or simple with your design as you like.

Smart Photos

£60/£57(c) • Friends £58/£55(c)

Saturday 19 Feb 10am until 4pm (in person, at Prema) AND Saturday 26 Feb 10am until 1pm (via Zoom)

These days, most of us are carrying around a brilliantly sophisticated computer, a hugely impressive camera and the ability to take and edit the most remarkable photographs. And yet so many of us just point and click, scared to play around with the settings and effects. Well, today’s where we demystify the magic of your smart phone and its camera so that you can capture the very best photos for your own enjoyment or to share across Instagram (and others). Lens artist Nigel Goldsmith leads our Saturday workshop which will take your passion for photography several steps further through exploring composition, exposure, lighting, and how best to photograph your subject.

Monoprinting

£52/£49(c) • Friends £50/£47(c)

Join Emily Lucas for today’s brilliant workshop where you’ll have the chance to experiment with relief inks, making mono-printed coloured backgrounds in the morning, ready to draw, print and collage onto throughout the afternoon. This is a non-technical, one-day workshop where you’ll have fun experimenting with colour, texture, surface and line, using relief printing inks and an etching press. No drawing skills are necessarily required – just the willingness to be inventive and have a go.

Collage, Print & Mix Media

£50/£47(c) • Friends £48/£45(c)

Join us for a day of fun with absolute permission to let loose and engage with creative experiment. Throughout today’s workshop you’ll explore and develop various collage, printing and mixed media techniques with the guidance and skills of artist Zoe Heath. You’ll be exploring the joy of collage and we’ll learn how to broaden this medium through a range of projects, including additional processes such as print and stitch.

Silver Ring Making

£64/£61(c) • Friends £62/£59(c)

Design and make your own bespoke ring in today’s workshop with amazing maker Charlotte Duckworth.  Spend the day creating a unique gift for someone special or create a custom piece of jewellery to keep for yourself (cos you’re properly special, right?). Charlotte helps you get to grips with all the necessary tools and techniques to design, make and perfect your silver ring.

Wildlife through Watercolours

£45/£42(c) • Friends £43/£40(c)

Join watercolour artist Amy Primarolo for today’s introduction to watercolours workshop. We’ll explore the basic processes needed to create your own vibrant, splashy style painting of a bird, (or animal of your choice) incorporating techniques that convey energy and movement. Amy guides you through materials and methods, with demonstrations and exercises, focusing on experimenting with techniques to create specific effects.

Enamelling Earrings & Pendants

£65/£62(c) • Friends £63/£60(c)

Join us for this fascinating workshop and fashion yourself a beautiful, bespoke pair of enamelled earrings and matching pendant. Jewellery designer Harriet St Ledger will show you how to use stencils to apply the enamel which will then be fired in a kiln a number of times to produce a vibrant finished piece. Further to this process, silver foil may also be incorporated for even more detail.

Willow Baskets

£70/£67(c) • Friends £68/£65(c)

Come and spend a wonderfully relaxing day with maker Helen Lomberg to create a unique basket – perhaps a garden trug, a shopper for light-loads or a beautiful accoutrement for the home to store blankets, yarns and other homely ephemera. The timing of today’s workshop coincides with the traditional harvesting season, so there will be plenty of gorgeous lovingly homegrown willows teamed with dogwood, hazel and snowberry for additional colour and interest. Helen guides you through the various traditional techniques to make something useful, colourful and exquisite which is in harmony with nature's bounty.

Hopping Bunny Automata

£45/£42(c) • Friends £43/£40(c)

Sam Hines has hopped back to Prema just in time for a special needle-felt workshop which focuses on the illustrious Easter bunny! But this is no ordinary needle-felted bunny, no siree! In today’s workshop you’ll bring your needle felted bunny to life by building its very own automata mechanism to put the spring in its step.

The Art of Bookbinding

£56/£53(c) • Friends £54/£51(c)

Professional bookbinder and member of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, Pamela Richardson is here to offer an introduction to the fascinating art of bookbinding.  During today’s workshop you will make a single and multiple section notebook with soft covers where you will then introduce decorative sewing techniques. If you get through that in no time you may also have the chance to make a notepad with a loose hard cover.