Dear Members and Followers,
Come join us for our October 2025 exhibition and various workshops.
Opening 1pm Saturday 4th October 2025
All classes bookings via Eventbrite
Celebrating Calligraphy Workshop with Cherrie Grant - Saturday 11 October 2025 - 10am to 4pm
This is a hands on workshop, we’ll be creating gift ideas and celebration cards for those special events for our loved ones, including the christmas workplace party, birthdays, dinner parties or that special thank you gift to brighten someones’ day. Acts of kindness never go astray or get old.
- Lunch and cushion
- Cutting mat
- Steel ruler
- Craft knifr/cutter and scissors
- A pair of compasses - geometric
- 0.5 - 1.0 copic/uni/staedtler fine liner marker - permanent black fine liner
- Gel pens, white pen, metallic pens
- Pencils - 2H, HB or F and pencil sharpener
- Kneadable eraser (rubber)
- Coloured envelopes
- Double sided tape and tweezers
- Washi tape
- Favourite one liners - limited to 10 words.
- Lunch and cushion
- Watercolour pencils / water-soluble graphite pencils (Derwent Graphitint) + plus colour swatches
- Gold watercolour or Coliro/Finetec Metallic watercolours
- Tracing paper
- 0.5 – 1.0 Copic/Uni/Staedtler fine line marker / permanent fine liner black
- Pencils – 2H, HB or F and pencil sharpener
- Kneadable eraser/rubber
- 2 A3 size sheets of 300 gsm Smooth/Hot Pressed Watercolour paper 100% cotton (Arches, Fabriano, Hanumuele etc)
- Palette or White ice block tray
- 2 Water containers
- pipettes
- Pointed brushes sizes 1, 2, 4 and 6 & mixing brushes
- Rag or paper towel
- Double sided tape & tweezers
Adolf Bernd used the colour from his wife's flower garden as his palette. He started making decorated letters from the age of 58 until his death in 1994.
- Lunch and cushion
- Tracing paper
- 0.5 – 1.0 Copic/Uni/Staedtler fine line marker / permanent fine liner black
- Pencils – 2H, HB or F and pencil sharpener & Ruler
- Kneadable eraser & Tombow eraser
- 300 gsm Smooth/Hot Pressed Watercolour paper 100% cotton (Arches, Fabriano, Hanumuele etc). 4xA3 or 8xA4 sheets we will leave a 2.5cm margin on the left-hand margin. For binding into a book.
- Watercolour pencils / water-soluble graphite pencils (Derwent Graphitint) + plus colour swatches
- Watercolour tubes or pans – professional/designer/artist grade is best 3 warm & 3 cool colours.
- White ice block tray or Palette
- 2 Water containers, pipettes & Rag or paper towel
- Pointed brushes sizes 1, 2, 4 and 6 & mixing brushes
- Light pad
- Double sided tape & tweezers
Versals are the capital letters that were used to begin a new chapter or paragraph in manuscripts. This workshop will show you how to modernise capitals for our time. They can be vibrant, colourful, and fun to do. Come and see where your imagination will take you as we look at many different ways of drawing letters. Class suitable for every skill level, from people who have never drawn a letter to those who have great experience.
Please bring: An A4 plain paper pad OR some A4 Computer paper.
Alternatively bring some A5 size pieces of watercolour type paper.
HB Pencil, eraser and ruler.
Coloured pencils OR watercolour paints.
If using watercolour paints you will need a small pointed brush, mixing brush and water jar.
Black outliner pen.
Bookings close – 17 October 2025 – Minimum of 6 people for the class to run.
In this workshop we will study line, looking at historical examples for inspiration to find patterns of line, geometric structure, rhythm, gesture and quality of line.
