Special Events and Demonstrations
Venue 25: Make a Glass Coaster
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
Venue 29: Artist Demonstrations
Saturday 14th June, 12 - 1.30pm or 2 - 3.30pm
Your coaster will be fired overnight for collection on Sunday 15th.
9 places per session, booking required via
07981 109 792.
£10 per person.
Venue 29: Artist Demonstrations
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
Venue 29: Artist Demonstrations
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June, 3pm daily
Join artist Laura Parker for an informal demonstration of her unusual painting techniques!
No booking required, free of charge.
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June, 12pm daily
Free 30min demonstration of fluid art techniques.
Visitors are also able to make their own original earrings (£12) fridge magnet (£5) or keyring (£10). No booking required.
Venue 23: Poetry in the Garden
Venue 23: Poetry in the Garden
Venue 32: Fluid Art Demo & Jewellery Making
Sunday 22nd June, 3pm
Join Ian Florance and friends for a poetry reading on the last afternoon of the festival.
Free of charge, no booking required.
Venue 10: Relief Printmaking
Venue 23: Poetry in the Garden
Venue 10: Relief Printmaking
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June
Sue Ribbans will demonstrate relief printmaking techniques daily.
No booking required.
Venue 20: Metalwork Demos
Venue 23: Poetry in the Garden
Venue 10: Relief Printmaking
14th and 21st June, 1pm
Ruth Aitken will demonstrate some of the stages involved in creating the metal sheets for her woven wire designs.
No booking required.
Venue 24: Woodcut Printing
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
14th and 15th June
Andrew Ferguson will demonstrate woodcut printing on his Farley proofing press. Work in progress will be on show. No booking necessary.
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June, 12pm & 3pm
Master potters Lindy Barletta & Lewis Hayes will show the techniques required to centre the clay, pull it up & form it. They will throw to music & blindfolded to test their skills... What could possibly go wrong?!
Venue 22: Sculpture in Progress
Venue 4: Pottery Demonstrations
Venue 22: Sculpture in Progress
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June
Mark Vellacott will demonstrate his portrait sculpture process and modelling techniques during both weekends.
No booking necessary.
Venue 22: Tintype Photography
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
Venue 22: Sculpture in Progress
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June
Pete Swann from Teddington Tintype will offer visitors photographic portraits using a wet plate collodion photographic process from the 1850’s (please note there is a fee).
No booking necessary.
Venue 28: Watercolour Pencil Demonstrations
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
21st and 22nd June
Throughout the weekend Jan Lee Johnson will demonstrate how to use watercolour pencils to create different effects. Visitors will be encouraged to try for themselves. No booking necessary.
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
Venue 46: Watercolour & Collage Demonstrations
14th, 15th, 21st & 22nd June, 2-5pm daily
Pat Harvey will give a demonstration of how they created their work Eggstraordinary.
No booking necessary.