WORKSHOPS
Workshops & shared practice
Crafty Place hosts small-group workshops built around materials, process and time to make. Some last a few hours. Others unfold over a full day or several days. Clay, fire, plants, colour, drawing and seasonal materials become ways of learning through direct experience.
APPROACH
Learning through making
Workshops are not designed around producing identical finished objects. The emphasis is on understanding a process, experimenting with materials and leaving room for individual decisions.
MATERIAL PRACTICE
Clay & Fire
Handbuilding, carving, ceramic sound and alternative firing — from quiet table-based making to multi-day work with smoke, heat and flame.
WABI FIRE
Three-day alternative firing practice using pit and barrel firing.
Kurinuki
A Japanese-inspired approach to carving a vessel from a solid block of clay.
Voice of Clay
Making ceramic instruments and exploring sound through clay.
Table for Two
A handmade dining set created slowly and individually for two.
Kiln Building
A hands-on multi-day practice in building a small wood-fired kiln from the ground up and learning through construction, clay, heat and fire.
Christmas Clay Decorations
Seasonal ceramic ornaments including bells and angels.
MATERIAL & SEASON
Natural Colour & Textile
Plants, fibres, mordants and textile processes explored through natural dyeing, shibori, eco print and seasonal colour.
Madder & Shibori
A Crafty Place format combining natural dyeing with madder and textile resist techniques.
Day of Natural Dyes
A collaborative format exploring multiple approaches to natural colour and eco print.
DRAWING · APPLIED ARTS · NATURE
Children, Art & Nature
Drawing, applied arts and nature-based programmes designed around observation, imagination and hands-on making.
Art Journal for Kids
A modular programme combining drawing, observation, colour and creative expression.
Children’s Nature Academy
A seasonal full-day programme where art, nature observation, movement and hands-on making come together.
Drawing, applied arts and seasonal making with natural materials are woven through the programme.
INVITED MAKERS
Guest Practices
Selected artists and makers bring other material traditions and approaches into the studio.
Kusamono
Living Plant Pictures
Decorated Eggs / natural dyeing with madder
Paper Stars / seasonal paper decoration
THE STUDIO
Small groups, enough time
Groups are intentionally small. The studio is a place to work at a human pace — with room for questions, conversation, shared meals and the unexpected turns that materials often bring.
WORKSHOPS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR