Half day mosaic workshops with Laura Barnes.

Fantastic Sunday afternoon spent in Laura’s workshop. Created our very first mosaic pieces, both now hooked and can’t wait to try more. Three hours of total relaxation, very absorbing and from the first seconds of drawing out a design template you can feel your worries just melting away.
Thank you Laura.
Cath and Stacey

Laura was a wonderful teacher, really supportive with ideas and techniques. I learnt way more than I thought I would and have a fantastic piece off outdoor mosaic to show for it - far better than I could have imagined for a complete beginner. I had a lovely,relaxed day. I would definitely recommend to anyone interested in mosaics or wanting to try something new.
Thank you Laura

My daughter and I had a day session with Laura. Neither of us had done any mosaics before. It was such a lovely relaxing day, we were both really impressed that we produced such lovely pieces. All thanks to Laura’s professional guidance and patience.

I had a lovely self indulgent day making my own kingfishers mosaic under the expert tuition of Laura. We had a good chat, plenty of tea and i came away with a garden ornament I'm very proud of.

Myself, mum and my daughter did the full day mosaic with Laura for mums birthday.
We had the best day!
Laura was fab and we made some masterpieces for our gardens too! I can’t recommend this day course highly enough. We’ve never tried mosaic before, we all had such an amazing time learning, singing and chatting. Fantastic day!

My sister took me on this course as a birthday present. I absolutely loved it. Laura tailored the course perfectly for each of us. It was very enjoyable, easily accessible, and we both ended up with 2 lovely mosaic pieces. I would totally reccomend this course to anyone. ❤

This half day course was great fun! Bespoke training, lovely chat and the chance to be creative with help and support if needed! I chose this half day course as a 60th birthday treat for my sister - we both made mosaics we were pleased to take away with us. Thank you Laura, your calm encouragement helped me and my sister create our mosaics, having fun at the same time!

You know when you have a good day, a really good day….? Yeh, few and far between at the movement with Covid, but not today. Our day came with an abundance of good, thanks to Laura, at Todmorden.

Myself and my wife enjoyed and learnt so much in such a short time, about the mosaic preparing, laying and grouting processes; coming out with a lovely mosaic plaque for our home.

Laura let us decide events and we all went the flow. I will be recommending Laura’s mosaic experience to both family and friends.

Well done Laura - we truly had a day to remember ❤️

I am the husband mentioned in the review prior to this one, doing the full-day mosiac course. I couldn't recommend it strongly enough. It's really fun and Laura was very facilitating of some fairly specific ideas we had, as well as pointing out a few things that only improved on what we thought we wanted.
Very friendly and just generally a great thing to do for a day-out treat.

I did the full day mosaic course with my husband as a birthday present and had a wonderful time! Neither of us had ever tried mosaic before and arrived just with a couple of odd pictures we thought we might try - we left with stunning completed pieces that are a real highlight in our garden, and a good idea of the basics of mosaic art.
Laura is an excellent tutor who gave a perfect balance of help and advice, and time to just work calmly on the projects, and she had some useful resources like books and of course her existing mosaics to help show how to make ideas work. It was a perfect gift and I hope to come back for another course in the future.

For my wife's birthday I commissioned Laura to make a mosaic portrait of her favourite dog. I was kept up to date on the progress and got to visit Laura's amazing studio in Todmorden. The finished mosaic is superb and my wife treasures it. Very professional service and a much admired, unique art work now hangs in our home. Thank you Laura.

I loved this course - I learned so much with different tools and with Laura's guidance was amazed at what I produced in a single day. Will definitely be booking more courses.

Thank you for an excellent day today Laura - so happy with my badger - I love him - I have never made a framed mosaic before so this was a first for me - can’t wait for the next workshop :-) x

What a fantastic afternoon! This was a gift from a friend.I had a one-on-one afternoon, Laura was amazing extremely talented and
knowledgeable, sharing her talent freely. Fantastic setting if you love old buildings. I found the afternoon inspiring, relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable.
Highly recommend!

So pleased with my portrait of Freddie bought as a Christmas present for my partner. Laura is a genius! Such a fantastic likeness that has captured not only his likeness but also Freddie's cheeky spirit. Was great to be involved in a lot of the choices and creative input from Laura as this was being made, and to see the picture evolve and develop with regular updates.

I travelled 60 miles to do this day course at the brilliantly quirky venue. It was all worth it. Laura is an inspirational tutor with great ideas, the perfect amount of nuture and excellent knowledge. I really enjoyed it and thanks Laura and fellow mosaic'ers for a great day out.

Absolutely amazing time and I recommend Laura’s course to anyone. Never done it before and everything was included. Looking forward to another next year.

I did this course on Friday, I felt nervous about going because my craft skills are poor, but instantly Laura the teacher made me feel relaxed, by the end of the day I made a perfect little dog mosaic, I loved every minute, Laura is very patient, you must give this a try excellent.

Completed a half day stained glass course with Laura, highly recommended, a great introduction to this craft, am really looking forward to the two day course when we come out of lockdown, thank you for a very enjoyable lesson!

Thank you for a fantastic evening Laura - the session was fantastic and I'm really pleased with my little foxy friend. I still need more practise with them nippers though so I can't wait to do the full day course with you and learn some more skills and techniques.
Anyone who is looking to have a go at mosaic couldn't have a better teacher than Laura - she is forever patient when asked the same queries over and over again :-).

Loved this course and was delighted to be able to produce a mosaic which has become a favourite feature amongst the plants in my garden.
Laura is a patient and talented teacher - I'll be booking more courses with her.