Watershed Studio

Contact Name: Allison Bond

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St. Cleres Hall Lane St. Osyth
Clacton-on-Sea
Essex
CO16 8RX

Watershed Studio

About Watershed Studio

Watershed is a rural venue situated on the edge of our family farm running excellent courses, homely hospitality, delicious farmhouse food and a warm friendly welcome!

We hold a broad range of one and two-day art courses covering most media from beginners to the more experienced. Immersing yourself in any creative activity is truly good for your soul. Come to Watershed and spend a day or two, or evening, with a small group of like-minded people in a relaxed and friendly countryside setting.

Watershed Studio's Courses

Animal Magic - Air Dried Clay Sculpture, with Trevor Osborne at Watershed Studio

Animal Magic - Air Dried Clay Sculpture, with Trevor Osborne at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 12th September 2020

Students will be working with air drying clay to produce an animal of their choice. Trevor will bring lots of reference material for you to choose from, for example, pictures of hares, pigs, cats or even meercats etc! This is a great product that dries and hardens without the use of a kiln and is so much fun to use. Students will learn clay modelling techniques including preparatory sketching, forming an armature, joining clay sections, fine modelling and finishing. A variety of finishes will then be explored to ensure long...

Beginners stained glass keepsake Christmas decorations with Mona Marnell at Watershed Studio

Beginners stained glass keepsake Christmas decorations with Mona Marnell at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 18th November 2020

Spend a fun day learning a new skill and creating your own unique Christmas decorations for you to treasure or gift to friends and family. Mona will teach you how to cut, grind and colour glass as well as applying the decorative features to personalise your beautiful glass decorations. Come by yourself or with friends for a creative start to this year's festivities.

Christmas Wreath Evenings at Watershed Studio

Christmas Wreath Evenings at Watershed Studio

Join us for a fun evening making your own festive door wreath. Allison will lead by demonstration followed by plenty individual help and practical hints on how to personalise your Christmas wreaths. Please bring seccateurs and/or any other Christmassy bits like baubles and glitzy bits. All foliage will be provided, as well as wires, frames, oasis, plus inspiration and a very friendly atmosphere. If there is time at the end you might like to make a small table arrangement from the greenery so bring a deep container of your choice...

Exciting winter landscapes with a difference, with Laura Reiter at Watershed Studio

Exciting winter landscapes with a difference, with Laura Reiter at Watershed Studio

This course will explore and abstract winter landscapes using mixed media and simple printing techniques. We will look at the shapes winter trees make once summer leaves have gone, and ways to represent winter skies and cool temperatures in expressive ways. This will be an exciting two days when we will also take a look at artists past and contemporary who have used this subject matter. Students will learn some techniques of simple printing and mixed media to produce unique and exciting work, going home with plenty of ideas to...

Free willow weaving - a wren ball/Christmas decoration, with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Free willow weaving - a wren ball/Christmas decoration, with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 17th November 2020

Come and create a sculpture for your garden, or could possibly be decorated with lights or just add height to your herbaceous border. The ball will be around 30 – 45 cm. You will initially learn how to create the base the fill out with a random weave to your desired effect. There will be stakes to mount it on for Allium heads and extra weavers for turning it into a poppy seed head if required, or simply creating a handle to hang in a tree with an entrance for...

From Field to Frame - Oil Landscapes with Graham Webber at Watershed Studio

From Field to Frame - Oil Landscapes with Graham Webber at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 5th May 2020

Working in oils over two days, join Graham Webber ROI IEA in learning how to paint 'en plein air', to gather information for a larger painting back in the studio. Throughout the two days Graham will give you an insight into working outside, what materials and techniques will help you make the most of the limited time and challenges of working on the spot from life. Learning how to distill the subject in front of you into key pieces of information and advice on equipment, working wet in wet, colour...

Glynn Macey is at Watershed Studio with Acrylics Unleashed

Glynn Macey is at Watershed Studio with Acrylics Unleashed

Essex - Next course on 15th April 2020

We are delighted to welcome Glyn next April - he is running two courses here whilst he is in the area! Take your pick but they are filling fast! If you know Glynn you will know his work is all about experimenting and having creative fun, and that is exactly what his workshops are all about. If you already know your stuff, his workshops will teach you new techniques and if you're just starting out, you'll be painting your own masterpieces in no time!

Lino Printing - Wildlife - with Trevor Osborne at Watershed Studio

Lino Printing - Wildlife - with Trevor Osborne at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 25th April 2020

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of cutting lino and explore how to use the reduction technique to print a two-colour design. We begin by getting to grips with the basics of lino printing by experimenting with mark making and simple reduction prints and then use these techniques to develop a two-colour design on an A5 or A6 soft-cut lino plate. Soft cut lino is very easy to carve your design and will allow you to make an expressive print. We will print the plates using our relief...

Loose contemporary pastels with Tim Fisher at Watershed Studio

Loose contemporary pastels with Tim Fisher at Watershed Studio

Using this exciting medium, learn about composition, colour and texture with Sennelier’s UK soft pastel demonstrator Tim Fisher. Choose formats and compositions developed from fast loose sketches. Discover how to combine other materials as under paintings to achieve striking and inspiring paintings. This course is perfect for those who wish to dabble in a different media or for those with more experience who want to take their work in a different and more exciting direction.

Making silver clay jewellery with Melanie Blaikie at Watershed Studio

Making silver clay jewellery with Melanie Blaikie at Watershed Studio

On this wonderfully exciting day with Melanie she will begin with answering the questions: what is silver clay, where does it come from and how does it work? She will then demonstrate and explain the main techniques you will be working with and there will be plenty of time to experiment and be creative. She will also cover how easy it is to fire the clay at home. Each student will design and create two or three pieces of finished jewellery which will be ready to wear by the end...

Needle Felting Evening at Watershed Studio - a sheep

Needle Felting Evening at Watershed Studio - a sheep

This is a fun introductory evening to the basics of the fabulously addictive craft of needle felting. Join Allison for this informal foray into this art and create your own little sheep—you can decide what breed when you come here!! There will be a choice of wool colours. The sheep is again different to the robins and hares we’ve previously made here at Watershed as there will be a wire armature to make first as the legs need to support the body. However you will have full instructions to follow...

Red fox in pastels with Vic Bearcroft at Watershed Studio

Red fox in pastels with Vic Bearcroft at Watershed Studio

Join us for this exciting course with the very popular artist and tutor Vic Bearcroft. The first day will introduce you to the techniques involved with using pastels on velour, creating suitable backgrounds for the subject, lighting, atmospheric effects, etc., culminating in a completed natural setting for the fox. On the second day you will focus on animal fur textures, features, especially eyes, before painting the fox into the background with appropriate highlights and adding foreground elements for depth.

Rush Woven Basket with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Rush Woven Basket with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 22nd September 2020

Learn how to weave a beautiful and practical object that can be used for all sort of things. Rush is a lovely, native material which is physically easier to work with than willow as it has a soft centre so easier on your hands, although many weavers mix willow and rush together, the material we will be working with was cut fairly locally, but if you get the bug you can buy it commercially.

Stained Glass for Beginners with Mona Marnell at Watershed Studio

Stained Glass for Beginners with Mona Marnell at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 12th May 2020

During this one day workshop glass artist Mona Marnell will take you through the key skills of the Tiffany method, cutting and shaping glass, applying copperfoil and lead soldering. You will pick one of the patterns provided and Mona will guide you through the whole process so you can take home a beautiful stained glass sun catcher. Please wear old clothes or bring an apron as glass is great fun but it can get messy.

Willow Weaving Birds with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Willow Weaving Birds with Deb Hart at Watershed Studio

Essex - Next course on 16th June 2020

Learn how to create a bird structure which can be transformed by manipulation and technique into various types of feathered creatures. Once the base is constructed you will be learning how to random weave and how to manipulate this amazing natural material to create what you require. Deb will bring geese and Pheasant pics with her but if you wish to create other types birds please bring a picture to work from. We will be working outside in our marquee so you will need to dress for the weather! Deb...