Working with texture medium, adding mixed media with acrylic paint & inks to create marks & interesting textural surfaces to add into future paintings. We will work on small 6” x 6” tiles of board to explore marks with brush and various mark-making tools.

Lindsey Cole is a New Forest based artist. Her work is of varied subject and media. She enjoys expressive marks and textural surface, while exploring the process with paint and ink. Lindsey draws her inspiration from the natural world, the New Forest and the surrounding coastline, responding to atmosphere and light. Her work is of a semi-contemporary abstract feel.

Subsidized staff cost £5

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Watercolour painting is a technique that uses water-soluble pigments applied to paper, known for its transparency and fluidity, allowing for a wide range of expressive effects.

Jane Staniland will first teach you a range of simple watercolour techniques including colour mixing, brush loading and brush strokes; flat and variegated washes and glazes; Lifting off and masking techniques. She will then take you through the process of creating a landscape painting featuring water, perspective and composition using many of the techniques you have been taught.

Subsidized cost for staff £5 - All materials will be supplied, but if you have your own that you would like to use, please feel free to bring them along.

Please note this workshop is being held at a later time than usual- 7-9pm

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Join Charlotte Jenner for an evening class of visible mending with stitch. You will be introduced to modern visible mending techniques borrowing from traditions such as Japanese Boro with Sashiko. Using small running stitches we will mend holes and weak areas in your garments and add beautiful fabrics to reinforce areas, prolonging the life of your garment.

This is a lovely relaxed class and you can be as neat and tidy or as free and easy with your stitching as you like!

Charlotte works as a palliative care doctor in the hospice and also runs creative workshops, teaching mending techniques and weaving. She has found that making and mending things helps her cope with the rest of her life! You can find her on Instagram @anestofgentlemakers or on her website https://www.anestofgentlemakers.co.uk

You are invited to bring along a textile garment to repair such as jeans or a shirt or jacket. Denim works really well. Charlotte will provide all of the tools needed to repair your garment and will have a selection of Japanese fabrics to work with. If you do not have anything to mend there will be the opportunity to buy a bartender's apron at a small cost (£7), which you can embellish with the fabrics provided.

You will be taught the techniques needed to secure and mend a hole in your garment and then you will have time to work on what you have brought. There will also be several examples of books and mended clothes to explore. Basic sewing skills and some dexterity would be very useful. If you can thread a needle, do running stitch and tie a knot in your thread, you can mend your clothes!"

Join us for a drop in bead session over lunchtime.  Drop in anytime 12noon - 2pm for relaxed creative activity - this month we'll be trying out bead sun catchers, follow easy instructions with ArtCare staff to help, Open to all SDH staff and volunteer and free of charge. No previous experience necessary.

Watercolour workshop
with Bethany Y Milam
Online via Zoom
Cost: £7.50 (£6.00 if supply own materials)

To book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watercolour-workshop-tickets-268849404807

Paint a colourful bee eater in watercolour. Bethany will guide you step-by-step through the process, introducing you to essential watercolour techniques along the way. Suitable for beginners.