Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens

It was lovely to host a 3-hour beginner-friendly realistic drawing experience this morning in our Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens. Tamara Finlay is a fabulous tutor, and our small group enjoyed having plenty of 1-2-1 time learning tips and techniques.

It was great to host a 3-hour beginner-friendly realistic drawing experience yesterday evening in our Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens. Tamara Finlay is a fabulous tutor, and our small group enjoyed having plenty of 1-2-1 time learning tips and techniques.

Today's students thoroughly immersed themselves in the wonderful world of block printing - taught by our talented guest tutor, Sue Welfare, here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens.

I had a lovely group of students attend yesterday evening's ceramic Christmas decorations workshops here in the Blended Monkey Crafts Studio. We're holding this workshop again on 30 October.

We had a great full-day fused glass experience here in the Blended Monkey Studios today with guest tutor, June Massey. Each student created their own 4 unique panels to be inserted into lanterns.

It's been lovely to host this 4-evening realistic drawing course over 4 weeks here in the Blended Monkey Studios. It's amazing how much progress the group have made by attending just a few hours each week. Well done everyone and thank you to our fabulously talented artist guest tutor Tamara Finlay.

Today, students learnt how to carve and cut leather in this wonderful leatherworking workshop. Everyone made their own unique coasters and valet trays.

Our half-day Festive Gonks clay sculpture workshop was great fun. Everyone's created their own wonderfully quirky set of gonks with help from our talented guest tutor artist and sculptor, Aimee! Keep an eye on our socials and website for dates of our next clay sculpture experiences here in the Blended Monkey Studios and Gardens.

We had another lovely group of students attend our fabric-bound bookbinding and journal making experience with guest tutor, Zakiya, from Fanoggins.

Our talented guest tutor stonemason and artist, Mark Evans, taught another great carving experience here in our dedicated outdoor, covered Blended Monkey Studio today. Well done everyone - you've created beautiful work. Simba approves too!

Our students enjoyed relief carving florals and foliage into stone in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens today.

Each student carved their very own large spoon, spatula or "spoontula" during today's half-day spoon carving experience here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens.

Our lovely group of students really embraced their creativity and let their imagination run wild in yesterday's mixed media large canvas workshop. They enjoyed playing with a wonderful variety of media - with outstanding results!

Such a fabulous, immersive paper & scarf marbling experience here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens, with marble artist Anne Hickley as our guest tutor.

We had two happy groups of students enjoy today's lovely mosaic workshop provided by Muni here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens.

We loved having our guest tutor, Katherine, here teaching our students how to create beautiful leaded glass panels here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens. Such a wonderful heritage craft which we held in our dedicated outdoor covered workspace.

Today's students enjoyed a fabulous small-group linocut printing experience taught by our talented guest tutor, Sue Welfare, here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens.

It's been lovely to host this 4-day realistic drawing course over 4 weeks here in the Blended Monkey Studios. It's amazing how much progress the group have made by attending just a few hours each week. Well done everyone and thank you to our fabulously talented artist guest tutor Tamara Finlay.

Yesterday's fused glass bird bath experience here in the Blended Monkey Studios with guest tutor, June Massey, was a great success. The students created their own large panels that will be fired to slump into a bird bath shape.

This morning's willow sculpture - garlic basket / bird feeder - experience was lovely to witness. So relaxing and creative! Our lovely group of students enjoyed weaving their fabulous feeders / garlic baskets in our Blended Monkey gardens & outdoor studio space.