Toolerstone House

Allie will share her process for capturing beautiful bluebell woods landscape. Demonstrating different skies to set the mood, spring trees and how to capture a carpet of bluebells. You will have time to practise, explore and have fun with what you have learnt. Join friendly and experienced Cheshire watercolour artist Allie. She will share her ... Read more

Join us for a wonderful willow weaving workshop and make a pheasant sculpture for your garden. The willow Sarah uses is from the Somerset Levels and is a renewable and sustainable crop. It is the ultimate green product absorbing carbon from the atmosphere as it grows. The sculptures are made entirely of willow.  Sarah’s workshops ... Read more

In this workshop you'll use the fluidity of watercolours to create abstract florals and botanicals inspired by the gardens at Toolerstone, learning how to create pleasing colour palettes and techniques to add texture and depth. Once dry we'll work into these pieces with a variety of mixed media tools including inks, metallics watercolours, and paint ... Read more

In this workshop you'll use the fluidity of watercolours to create vibrant abstract seascapes, learning how to create pleasing colour palettes and techniques to add texture and depth. Once dry we'll work into these pieces with a variety of mixed media tools including inks, metallics watercolours, and paint pens to add sparkling highlights and added ... Read more

Join us for a wonderful workshop where you will learn the basics of lino printing with our tutor Kirsty Hall. Lino printing is a very relaxing pass-time, creating print after print with different inks. In this workshop you will create a design of your choosing. It could be a wild hare, a fox, country scene, ... Read more

The perfect introduction to basketry & you will go home with an elegant basket made from beautiful willow & incorporating interesting traditional/contemporary weaves. Working from a log section bottom the difficult job of ‘upsetting’ (putting in the upright stakes evenly spaced) the basket is already done for you. You will spend the day learning weaves ... Read more

Inspired by the beautiful gardens at Toolerstone we will be exploring nature to identify flowers and foliage that we will then use to create lasting impressions in clay.  Using your imprinted clay your tutor will guide you through hand-building pottery techniques to create vases and coasters. You will then add colour to the surface decoration ... Read more