Gill Fletcher

Art

Gill guides and nurtures with a light-hearted spirit. There is no pressure to paint a picture from her—she simply wants you to learn through experimenting and play

Michelle Bartram

Sewing and Soft Furnishings

A gentle soul who has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to sewing having spent the best part of her working life supervising and altering costumes backstage in theatres and on cruise liners. Benefit from her skills by ‘making your own stuff’

Niki Hampson

Papermaking

Dedicated to her craft; always experimenting you will love how Niki turns re-cycled magazines into gorgeous hand made papers and what to do with it next! As Niki says "You can make paper as fine and textured as lace, or as strong and pliable as fabric when wet"

For Niki's fabulous own website for her Pulpitations click here

Jenny Pepper

Feltmaking

As a member of the International Feltmakers Association you are in good hands with Jenny, who has been felt making for over 14 years. Her continuing love of developing new techniques within her craft, felted vessels and nuno amongst her favourites, will have you spellbound and addicted—be warned!

To visit Jenny's own website and see more of her work click here

Anthea Firth

Willow Weaving

Anthea Firth has a background in Fine Art and Design and Technology. A retired teacher, she now specialises in environmental education. Having always done various crafts, 5 years ago she started to do willow weaving which pulls together many of her interests

Katie Braida

Pottery

Katie trained as an Art teacher specialising in Ceramics and over the years has taught all age ranges and abilities. During that time she has picked up lots of tips to help you create something special with clay

Nicky Johnson

Cup Cakes

Nicky has a background in teaching food safety qualifications and has NVQ's in food manufacturing and catering. She started making novelty cup cakes as a hobby and set up Fluffy Cakes in June last year due to the high demand for her cakes. Nicky is truly passionate about everything to do with cakes, as she says, "My mantra is that a cake should always taste as good as it looks!"

To see more of her work, visit her unique Fluffy Cakes website, click here

Jo Purdy

Flower Arranging

Jo has had a life long passion for flowers and flower arranging and has a first class honours degree in floristry. She has been teaching floral design work and running classes and workshops for the past five years

Heidi Jackson

Rag Rugging

Heidi has been coming to us for a while now to do her ever-popular Rag Rugging workshops. The patience, humour and skill that she brings to these make it a 'must' for anyone wishing to experience the traditional craft of rag rugging

Carol Chapman

Beaded Jewellery

Carol has a passion for jewellery and has also been teaching courses in embroidery for twenty years. Over the past few years she has combined the art of bead-weaving into her courses and has developed many styles of beaded jewellery

Neil Kershaw

Stained Glass Making

Neil started working in stained glass 16 years ago when he attended a two year course with the WEA. Five years ago he set up his own workshop at Hutton-le-Hole and started to teach beginners with his "Come and Try" courses, whilst building his own reputation as a stained glass artist 

Kala King

Chocolate Making

Kala is a trained chocolatier with the Barry Callebaut Chocolate Academy. She now specialises mainly in chocolate creation, ie. chocolate pattisserie and chocolate wedding cakes and she is really passionate about her work

To see more of Kala's work just visit her own website, click here 

Ian Rhodes

Marketing

Last - and by far the least - is me, Ian. I was in the print business for over thirty years which explains the grey hair and glassy eyes. I joined Chrissy at The Workshop just over a year ago and I do the website stuff plus the marketing, advertising and the newsletter as well as making a mean cuppa for the clients