Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens

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.

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.

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.

What a lovely, relaxing experience! Our lovely group of students enjoyed weaving their gorgeous duck & piglet sculptures in our Blended Monkey gardens & outdoor studio space.

Our small group of students thoroughly enjoyed their paper making experience here in the Blended Monkey outdoor covered workspace. They got to enjoy the gardens, the sunshine and the birdsong while they made their beautiful handmade papers.

Our lovely small group of students created beautifully unique wet felted purses/bags in this morning's wet felting workshop!

I had a great group join me yesterday evening for me ceramic botanical vases workshop here in the Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens surrounded by trees & plants, birdsong and a lovely cool breeze.

Students learnt how to make their own leather belts from scratch under the expert tuition of Tony & Soraya! Well done everyone!

Today's enamelling experience was another fabulous success with our small group of students making their own brooches, pendants, earrings and necklaces - another wonderful enamelling session with our guest tutor, Kate Janssens.

Matt & Gina returned to our Blended Monkey Studios to teach a full day of copper foiled glass. Students created panels in a variety of designs.