Liz Wellby - Artist, Teacher & Maker

“I sometimes think that there is nothing so delightful as drawing”, Van Gogh. If you agree with Van Gogh and are an experienced artist or count yourself as an absolute beginner, it’s worthwhile practice to spend time exploring your drawing skills. Join Liz Wellby at The Slipper Studio in a relaxed and supportive environment, for a day of drawing. The venue is beautifully presented, with handcrafted workbenches and a wood burner, with views down into the village. The village of Carsington lies on the edge of the Peak District. Starting...

Join Liz Wellby at her beautiful home studio on the edge of the Peak District, for a creative and relaxing day learning how to create a range of paper sculptures. Starting with simpler techniques and creating smaller pieces, you will gradually increase the complexity and scale, enabling you to take home a range of completed outcomes, that will take pride of place. This creative workshop is suitable for all abilities and those with a range of creative experiences. The Slipper Studio is beautifully presented with handcrafted workbenches, a wood burner...

Apologies in advance for mentioning anything that is even vaguely festive, but makers do need to plan ahead and create lovely festive opportunities for you. To get your festive to do list firmly on track, join Liz Wellby and learn how to make beautiful birds using vintage papers and wire to decorate your home this Christmas. There’s every chance that your little flock of birds might keep you company throughout the winter months, as you just won’t want to them pack them away with all your other Christmas decorations. If...

Join artist, teacher and maker Liz Wellby, at The Slipper Studio on the edge of the Peak District and kick start your Christmas festivities. If your trips around the shops have lead you to believe that the decorations on sale are just plain tacky, how about taking a day out for yourself and learn how to make your own beautiful Christmas decorations using vintage papers? Learn the skills to continue creating further pieces at your kitchen table and make lovely gifts for your friends and family, but don’t be surprised...

Join artist, teacher and maker Liz Wellby at The Slipper Studio, for a relaxing and creative day, creating tiny wire sculptures. Wild birds have such personalities and characteristics and are a lovely thing to capture using a combination of paper, metal and wire. The workshop is suitable for a range of abilities. Liz will host the workshop at her home studio. The venue is beautifully presented, with handcrafted workbenches and a wood burner, with views down into the village. About the tutor Liz Wellby is a versatile and experienced artist,...

Join artist, teacher and maker Liz Wellby, at The Slipper Studio on the edge of the Peak District and create beautiful Winter decorations for you home. It always seems such a shame that we take down our Christmas decorations just when it’s so dull and dark and when we still need beautiful objects around us; so how about taking a day out for yourself and learn how to make your own beautiful Winter decorations using vintage papers? Learn the skills to continue creating further pieces at your kitchen table and...

Gel printing plates are a lively and instant product to create mono prints with, plus the advantage that they don’t require the use of a printing press. Each print is unique and this highly adaptable process invites experimentation. Gel printing plates look and feel like gelatin, but are durable, reusable and store at room temperature; they come in a range of sizes and shapes, are easy to clean with mild soap and water or baby wipes and are always ready for printing. They are used in conjunction with acrylic paints...

Taking our inspiration from a number of design sources, including mid-century design and the work of contemporary printmakers Jenni Douglas and Jane Ormes, we will explore pattern through mark making, drawing and collage, with a mixed media approach. Composition will be developed as we create our own printing blocks and stamps, before we refine our ideas and create a series of lino cuts. This workshop will suit folks who are new to printmaking or those with some experience who wish to try something of a more experimental nature. Liz Wellby...

Join artist and maker Liz Wellby on the edge of the Peak District, with an introduction to collographs. Collographs are an interesting type of print; they can be printed by hand or run through a press and printed as relief or intaglio. Exploring the theme of Rhythm & Pattern, or a theme of your choice, we will create drawings and collage and develop 2 dynamic plates, before printing a lively range of outcomes. This workshop is suitable for those with art/craft experinces now wishing to try a new process or...

If you are a keen cook, you are sure to have a fine collection of kitchenalia in your home, with pots and drawers rammed full of whisks, fish slices and ladles. We value them for their practical use to help use create our favourite dishes, but I feel we should also look at the satisfying range of shapes and forms in their design. Who can resist a set of 1960’s utensils with their lovely painted handles? Join Liz Wellby at The Slipper Studio to explore the shapes and patterns found...

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 remember creating our first lino cut during our Art lessons at secondary school. If you have created a number of single colour lino prints and now feel ready to challenge yourself further, this is the workshop for you. However, if you are new to the process, you may prefer to focus on the skills relating to one colour cutting and printing and...

Join me at The Slipper Studio on the edge of the Peak District for a relaxing and creative day. Fine and flexible wire is a lovely material to work with, enabling you to create characterful objects, with a drawn-like quality to them and all without causing harm to your hands. You will learn how to create a range of small and decorative pieces of sculpture, which will take pride of place in your home. We will aim to create 3 beautiful outcomes, exploring joining techniques, wrapping, shaping and sculpting wire,...

Join Liz Wellby at The Slipper Studio, on the edge of the Peak District in Derbyshire, for this exciting new workshop. 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 lino, the block is rolled through a press with lots of pressure applied, alongside a dampened, heavy weight paper. The outcome is subtle, yet very satisfying, with raised lines, shapes and...

The process of monoprinting dates back to the 1600’s and has been explored by artists as diverse as Rembrandt and Edgar Degas. It combines drawing and painting with printmaking techniques, to create a spontaneity within outcomes, and has few, if any rules. During the workshop we will explore single and multi layered drawn mono prints, the direct method, painted and a further experimental technique, enabling you to explore and create a range of printed outcomes, with a particular focus on what inspires you. Liz Wellby will host this workshop at...

A visit to the Birmingham City Art Gallery in the winter of 2018, started me thinking about developing a lino cutting and printing workshop inspired by the fine collection of Arts and Crafts ceramics we saw; the colours, patterns and designs of the William de Morgan tiles were particularly impressive and hugely inspirational. Join me at my home studio - The Slipper Studio, for this workshop, situated on the edge of the Peak District. The venue is beautifully presented with handcrafted workbenches and a wood burner, with views into my...

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 remember creating our first lino cut during our Art lessons at secondary school. If you are looking to learn a new creative skill, but need a process that can be “picked up and put down” and fitted around a busy life, this may well be the technique you have been looking for. Working from your chosen images, this one day workshop will...

Join artist, teacher and maker Liz Wellby at The Slipper Studio, for a creative and relaxing day. 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. Simply bring along your design ideas or images, patterns and shapes and learn how to translate these into a design, before cutting a stamp using Essdee Master Cut and printing your design. We will initially create paper and card based products, such...