Botanical Drawing & Printmaking Workshops

Saturday 29th June 2024 10am - 4pm Brookside Farm Banbury Spaces Available

Saturday 10th August 2024 10am - 4pm. Common Ground, Oxford. Spaces Available

See Below for more details.

Drawing

Meet & greet at Brookside Farm, Banbury or Common Ground, Oxford with a coffee & a chat. We will work through a range of warming-up sketching exercises followed by an approach to drawing flowers. You are then given time to explore the beautiful gardens & create more sketches ready for etching & printing in the afternoon.

Etching & Printing

The etching workshop will give you an introduction to etching techniques, equipment & approaches. You will then produce your own drypoint etching, ink up and then print your etching onto quality printing paper.

Further details

£60 per person including materials.

Lunch will be be around midday, please bring a pack lunch with you. Parking available

Contact Helen here for bookings and availability.

Risk Assessment

Gov.uk Coronavirus Guidelines Bookings

Customer Feedback

Thank you so much for the drypoint botanical workshop today. I had a lovely, relaxing day of drawing and learning about drypoint. It is a beautiful, quiet place to practice and the classroom had everything needed for the workshop. We were instructed on how to make drypoint etchings and given plenty of opportunity to print. As it was a small, friendly group, we had the opportunity to ask lots of questions and learn about how we could develop the artwork in the future, too. I would recommend it to anyone and would love to hear about future courses using different techniques. L McClue 06th April 2024

“I did Helen’s botanical drawing and etching workshop last month and it was really fantastic, even for a total novice like me - such a lovely afternoon!” Nicola 17th May 2024

"‘I had an excellent day with Helen on the etching workshop. There was such a lovely, supportive atmosphere throughout the day and I really learnt a lot whilst having the freedom to follow my own interests. The opportunity to start the day drawing in the Botanic gardens in Oxford was a real bonus and provided great inspiration. Helen and Ali are both excellent teachers - I am very much looking forward to attending another workshop in the future! S Coleman Oct 2023

I had a very enjoyable and informative day at Helen’s Drypoint etching workshop. We were given a variety of drawing exercises, followed by some free drawing which gave us the opportunity to develop our drawing skills and produce some images to use in our etchings. The afternoon session was a delight; both Ali and Helen are excellent teachers and expertly demonstrated how to etch and print our designs.  With support and encouragement, everyone in the group was able to produce some beautiful and individual etchings. We were encouraged to experiment, try different amounts of ink, various colours and use our imagination. Overall an excellent course- I just cannot wait for the next one!   S Blackwell Oct 2023

I really enjoyed the botanical printmaking course. It was well structured and provided the time and methods for each stage to be done comfortably. The session leaders were knowledgeable and friendly, and they helped me and others to develop their own different ideas and techniques based on personal style and experience with printmaking. I think the course was a really fun and experimental day for beginners or people with printmaking experience who want to try drypoint or practice more with botanical illustrations as a basis for art. Good value for money.
A Mitchell
Oct 2023