Blooming Designs - Art in the Barn

“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing”, Van Gogh. If you agree with Van Gogh and count yourself as an absolute beginner or as a more experienced artist, it’s worthwhile practise to spend time exploring your drawing skills. As part of our Autumn Art in the Barn Creative Arts Week we will be exploring natural forms through drawing with line and wire. Starting with the principle that everyone can draw, you will focus on learning to look, plan your ideas and create a series of drawings. Working...

As part of our Autumn Art in the Barn Creative Arts Week, we will be offering an introduction to block printing on fabric. If you have ever considered designing and creating something to use in your home or thought about making personalised gifts for your family and friends, this is the workshop for you. Bring along your designs ideas or images and learn how to translate them into designs, before cutting a stamp using Essdee Master Cut and printing your designs. We will initially create paper and card based products,...

As part of our Autumn Art in the Barn Creative Arts Week, how about joining us in our inspirational thatched barn on the edge of the South Downs Way, for a days lino cutting and printing? The Long Barn is a light and spacious venue which allows you to be socially distanced from other participants with your own work space and equipment. Lino cutting and printing is a very enjoyable process that can be explored at our kitchen tables and requires the minimum of specialist equipment. Many of us may...

Join us in our inspirational thatched Long Barn, on the edge of the South Downs Way in the beautiful Meon Valley and explore the technique of batik. Batik is an ancient process that originated in Indonesia. Pattern is traditionally applied onto cloth using molten wax with fine brushes or tools called tjantings, before coloured dyes are applied to the fabric. In more recent years this highly decorative and colourful process has been used to create designs and images on paper. Explore this vibrant process, creating a range of experimental samples...

Join us for this exciting new workshop, as part of our Autumn Art in the Barn Creative Arts Week. The workshop will be held in the beautiful thatched barn at Meon Springs. It is a light and spacious venue, allowing you to be socially distanced from other participants, with your own equipment. Blind embossing is an interesting creative technique. It uses the skills and materials associated with lino cutting, but without all of the mess generated when inking up a plate. Once you have cut a design on traditional grey...

Spring, summer and autumn can be an inspirational time for those with a love of gardens, with their beautiful colours, shapes and forms heralding a change in the seasons. Join us in the heart of the Meon Valley, to explore floral images through a mixed media approach. ​ The workshop will be delivered by Alison Butler of Blooming Designs in her home studio. This is an inspirational space in a beautiful setting. With over 25 years experience as a textile designer and book illustrator, Alison will guide you through a...

Join us for this new and exciting workshop, as part of our Art in the Barn Creative Arts Week, in October 2021. The workshop will be held in the beautiful Long Barn at Meon Springs. It’s an inspiring venue, with lots of light and it’s generous proportions, allow you to be socially distanced from other participants, with your own equipment. A mixed bunch of flowers in a favourite vase or jug, is a simple pleasure and one that cheers; add a favourite ornament or two and you have a beautiful...