Come along and enjoy this tactile, hands-on workshop using recycled textile fragments to highlight the importance of bees in our natural eco system.
You will be shown how to strech a piece of textile onto an embroidery hoop as your canvas base. From there, you will begin assembling and layering beautiful hand cut fabric flowers and bees to create a botanical scene. To finish, you'll add shimmering sequins, 3D flowers and button embellishments to create a vibrant nature scene, with your bees taking centre stage.
This hoop art and fabric collage workshop is the perfect way to relax for a few hours through the meditative process of selecting, cutting and arranging textiles to build a multi-dimensional stunning piece of wall art using haberdashery finds.
What you’ll learn:
Composition:
• Explore the process of extracting motifs from patterned fabric.
• Learn how to balance floral patterns and focal points (the adorable bee).
Layering:
•You'll be shown techniques for securing fabric and 3D elements for a professional finish.
Detailing:
•Play with textures using 3D flowers, sequins, buttons and embellishments, adding "spark" with mixed-media accents.
• ?Leave with a tactile, finished, ready-to-hang piece of original art, made completely from recycled materials.
We have received funding from the Co-Op to hold two creative workshops, this is the first. The second will be in May.
This session will be held on Wednesday 22nd April 10.30am-12.30pm. The session is free, as it's funded - but please do come along if you book a space, and spaces are limited. Click here to book Hot drinks and biscuits are provided.
The sessions will be held by Caroline Muirhead, a local artist.
Get in touch with any questions: susie@pauseandbreathe.co.uk
Meet your facilitator:
Caroline Muirhead is a professional mixed media artist and maker and knowledgeable arts educator with over 30 years experience of working creatively within communities. A keen environmentalist with a passion for sustainable design, Caroline is on a mission to redefine and reinvent found materials into quality finished art works and craft pieces. She has exhibited and sold her creative work in Central Scotland, London, Lisbon and Sydney.
In December 2024, Caroline launched Green at Heart Art Studio on the rural working farm in Stirlingshire where she lives. Made using recycled materials, this unique studio and exhibition space is a beautifully repurposed container and works around the ethos of creativity, nature connection and sustainability. Immersed in nature, the Green at Heart Studio is a place for women of all abilities and experience levels to embrace their creativity through the process of making and crafting using a zero waste approach.
Caroline is committed to offering accessible art and craft workshops that are the perfect mix of inspiration, practical making, relaxation and fun. She will expertly guide you through the creative process which will result in you going home with your own unique finished product.