Block-printed botanical lampshade Workshop

Name: Block-printed botanical lampshade Workshop
Start: 2025-06-07T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-07T16:00:00+01:00
Location: St Anne's Arts & Community Centre

Schedule

Sat Jun 07 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Anne's Arts & Community Centre | Barnstaple, EN

Tutor: Annabel Hill of Appledore Print Studio.
Come and create a wonderful lampshade using flowers as inspiration!
We will wander around Barnstaple looking at flower containers, garden beds, and plants at the pannier market stalls and make small observational drawings or take photos.
A still life of flowers will also be provided back at St Anne's Chapel for more ideas!
Back indoors we will then translate our drawings to a lino block and carve out our design.
Botanical templates to trace will also be given for those unsure of their drawing skills.
We can test out our blocks by inking up and printing them onto sample fabrics. From this, we can then print and embellish with inked-up leaves and ferns.
There will be three colours provided which can be blended to desired shades.
During the latter half of the afternoon, we can then roll our fabric onto a small shade. A perfect gift or you may wish to keep it to brighten up your home!
The workshop is accessible to complete beginners and more experienced alike.
£65.00
+£16 for materials payable to the tutor on the day.
book online
10am-4pm.
Tea & Coffee available throughout the day for a small donation.
If a workshop you'd like to do is fully booked ring Box Office (01805 624624) to be added to the waiting list, you might be lucky! This also helps us ascertain the demand for particular workshops when programming.
PARKING
The closest long term car parks (and the cheapest) can be found at:
Fair View, Barnstaple EX31 1JR
Pilton Causeway, Barnstaple EX32 7AA
Seven Brethren Bank
About Annabel:
Annabel Hill is a designer and printmaker living in Appledore, North Devon where the beauty of the natural environment inspires her to create designs and prints at her studio.
Growing up in London in a family of art lovers, she took early inspiration from frequent visits to art galleries as well as idyllic holidays in Shropshire.
In her late teens, her love for the environment and art led her to study both onto degree level. Nature is always the main focus of her artwork.
Her Textile Design degree gave her the skills to create patterns abstracted from images and drawings of plant life.
Since moving to North Devon, Annabel has homed in on botanical imagery from hedgerows and from rock pools. Seed heads and buds are also good imagery.
Her home-based studio now has several presses which she uses to create a wide range of prints. Patterns are then developed from printwork using digital software, and then repeated onto natural fabrics. Block prints and screen prints also are made.