Group Workshops

What a lovely group of students - everyone created their own unique large botanical slab vase.

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.

I had the pleasure of teaching a really lovely group of students the techniques of coiling and slab building - creating quirky coiled pots in the morning and beautiful slab botanical vases in the afternoon.

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

Today's enamelling experience was another great 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.

Our half-day Highland Cow clay sculpture workshop was great fun. Everyone's created their own unique "moo"valous cow 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.

Our creative students let their imaginations run wild in today's rustic graffiti sign workshop taught by Chris from ThisBrokenArt here in the 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.

The cyanotype process is intriguing to witness; great to see today's group create fabulous printed papers, fabrics and panels using this mysterious process today in our Blended Monkey Studios & Gardens - astounding results despite the lack of sun!

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.

Our large loose florals experience was very relaxed and open, with Sarah teaching everyone how to have a loose style.

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.

Students learnt how to create their very own leather glasses cases from scratch under the expert tuition of Tony & Soraya! Well done everyone!