Queen Street Gallery

Cast Pewter Jewellery Learn an ancient technique, used by the Romans. It is very low tech and wonderful items of jewellery with a professional finish can be produced in a few hours. Students make moulds in plaster or cuttlefish to their own designs, then lead free pewter is poured into the moulds using hand gravity casting. The moulds can be reused to make pendants, earrings, brooches, keyrings and fridge magnets.

If you would like to learn paper marbling, come along to a workshop at our Alfred Street studio, where Bethan Ash will show you a quick and easy way to marble paper, teach you some tips and tricks to get successful patterns and, most importantly, make sure you have fun creating your own beautiful papers. Marbling is unlike any other form of print making. More akin to abstract painting, it is a collaboration between the water and the marbler – the more you try to control the process, the less...

In this online workshop with embroidery artist Jessica Grady you will create your own floral hand embellished and embroidered design - which you can frame up within a wooden embroidery hoop. As well as traditional textile materials Jessica will also show you techniques for incorporating recycled and unusual materials such as garden wire, wrapping ribbon and plastic waste into your design. Jessica will show you how to cut and create your own petals and floral vines for adding into your design and how to attach these to the fabric with...

Two session workshop. Gelli printing on fabric workshop with Bethan Ash. An exploration in improvised print making using stencils and a Gelli plate to print on fabric and paper for art projects Suitable for: complete novices with good manual dexterity. All printmaking tools, equipment and materials will be provided on the day. If you have images you would particularly like to work from such as photographs, drawings or magazine clippings please bring them with you.

Learn how to make traditional, cold-pressed soap.  Soap-making, using the saponification of natural oils, is an age-old tradition.  We will firstly discuss the properties of different types of oils and the use of essential oils for fragrance. This will be followed by a demonstration of how to make a batch of cold-pressed soap. These will be made from a variety of quality vegetable and essential oils (no palm oil, no preservatives, parabens or SLS).  You will then make your own batch (approx. 12 soaps) to take home and enjoy!   

Get into the Christmas spirit and make your own pottery angel. This is a 2 x 2hr session workshop where you can make your own angel. The sessions take place one week apart (start date listed in the calendar). The first session you will make the angel in clay. This will then be taken away and fired ready for the next session which is glazing. Again your items will be taken away and fired and delivered back to the gallery.

Get into the Christmas spirit and make your own pottery Santa. This is a 2 x 2 hour workshop where you can make your own Santa.The sessions take place one week apart (start date listed in the calendar). The first session you will make the santa in clay. This will then be taken away and fired ready for the next session which is glazing. Again your items will be taken away and fired and delivered back to the gallery.

Full day Mixed media workshop Use vintage paper and fabric creating an original experimental piece of work for framing or hanging free style. You will need a sewing machine that has the ability to free stitch, an assortment of fabric, paper images, embroidery hoop, threads for the machine and hand sewing. Alison will also be providing materials and showing you how to manipulate paper so that it responds more like fabric. Alison Moger is a practising artist working with free - stitch, mixed media and print; her work will always...

Two session workshop. Monoprint Collage workshop with Bethan Ash. Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility when you combine collage and paint with mono-printing techniques. Part 1 we will layer colours, patterns, and textures on the Gelli Arts gel plate to create gorgeously printed collage papers. Part 2 Then we will integrate monoprint and collage techniques using masks and stencils, to build images directly on a paper substrate. The boundaries between painting, mono-printing, and collage disappear as you gain a fluidity of process and an exciting new means of...

One-to-one Masterclass with Textile Artist Bethan Ash Flexible dates Masterful use of shape can take your work to new heights, add vitality and energy to your work with improvised free cut shapes is the goal of this workshop. Exercises will focus on sharpening your awareness of the role shape can play in your work. Ideas will be developed by using fused fabric studies. Fabric compositions will be developed using piecing and raw edge fused collage. Learn to use shape and colour confidently by fusing, appliqueing, piecing or stitching them to...

Landscape and free stitch (The image for Alison's inspiration came from the cover of a well loved book, Wuthering heights!) This is a full day workshop exploring familiar or sentimental landscapes personal to the individual; you will need a sewing machine that has the ability to free stitch, an assortment of fabric, embroidery hoop, threads for the machine and hand sewing, an image of a landscape that holds memories for you or inspires you (Alison will also have available fabric and will provide calico as the stabilising background). The work...

This is a half day workshop A sewing Machine can be brought to the workshop but is not necessary as stitching and construction can be done by hand please bring fabric of your choice thread and needles if you would like to use beads on your brooch you will need a beading needle I will also be proving materials and brooch backs for this workshop. Alison Moger is a practising artist working with free - stitch, mixed media and print; her work will always have a recycling, environmental and family...

Christmas cards This will be an all day workshop experimenting with free-stitch and mixed media using vintage paper and fabric creating original cards for special people. You will need a sewing machine that has the ability to free stitch, an assortment of fabric, paper, embroidery hoop, threads for the machine and hand sewing. Alison will also be providing materials and cards/envelopes. Alison Moger is a practising artist working with free - stitch, mixed media and print; her work will always have a recycling, environmental and family ethos at its heart....

This is a half day workshop Make a free-stitched Christmas hanging to decorate your Christmas tree.  These little dolls can be personalised with embroidered names or Babies First Christmas. You will need a sewing machine that has the ability to free stitch, an assortment of fabric, embroidery hoop, threads for the machine and hand sewing. Alison will also be providing some materials. Alison Moger is a practising artist working with free - stitch, mixed media and print; her work will always have a recycling, environmental and family ethos at its...

Half day wet felt jewellery workshop. Learn the techniques of needle and wet felting in order to make your own necklace and bracelet or earrings to take home in this creative and colourful workshop with Sarah Thom.