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What's On
Telephone 01775 766698
or
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Download a PDF of our June to Dec
2010 Brochure here
Read our August Newsletter here
Willow
Weaving Art in the Garden with Alison Walling -
SOLD OUT
Thursday 9 September
10am to 4pm
Coiled Textiles
Vessels with Lorraine Appleton
Saturday 11 September 10am to 4pm
Learn how this
thrift craft can be made into vessels, hangings or
accessories with inspirational textiles tutor
Lorraine.
Art on the Map - Open
Weekend
Saturday 11 & Sunday 12
September 10am to 4pm FREE ENTRY
Saturday Strawberry
Glass will be open all day for visitors. And on Sunday
you can view new work by resident artists Carolyn
Goodwin too and see a display of the students work from
previous classes and workshops. Gift items and
artwork will be on sale.
Abstract Stained
Glass Copper Foiling workshop
Wednesday 15 September 10.30am to
12.30pm
Create a
unique abstract design in stained glass. Learn the
techniques of copper foiling and soldering and then
polish for display at home. All tools and materials are
provided and no experience is
necessary.
Mosaics with Fiona
Gurney
Saturday 18 September 10am
to 4pm
A
wonderful opportunity to create something completely
individual for your home or garden with local mosaic
artist Fiona. Ideal for beginners and those with
some experience.
News
Food Themed Craft
Days
   
Thanks to all those who took part in
our Food Themed Summer Craft Days. They were loads
of fun - Fiona Gurney helped children make their own
fruity mosaic coaster, Carolyn Goodwin pot painted,
Elaine Green made salt dough decorated wreaths, Angela
Nicholls introduced many to the delights of Decopatch
paper craft and last but certainly not least Mary Avens
taught lots of participants the joy of
knitting!
Water Taxi Painting Day
 
An
enthusiastic group of artists took a trip on the
specially chartered Water Taxi in July and enjoyed a
morning cruising along the Welland and Coronation
Channel. They saw lots of wildlife,
sketched and took hundreds of photos and then had
the afternoon back at Unique Cottage Studios to work up
up their sketches.
Furniture Painting Course
  
Sue
Purdy taught Furniture Painting Techniques recently at
Unique and the results were truly stunning!
We
hope to run another course in the Spring - ring for more
information.
Sunny and Successful Sheep Day on 22
May!
     
The
recent Sheep Day
celebrating wool and all it uses was a very sunny
success with over 200 people coming down to the farm to
see sheep shearing, craft demonstrations and more!
It is hoped this will become an annual event. A big
thank you to all that took part and
visited!
Gillian and Fiona Feature in
Lincolnshire Pride
Magazine!
Gillian Wing of Strawberry Glass and
Mosaic artist Fiona Gurney have recently featured
in Lincolnshire Pride to coincide with their
exhibition One
Track of Sparkling Light at Ayscoughfee Hall in
Spalding which ran from in March this year. Click on the
link to read the article http://www.lincolnshirepride.co.uk/challengerob/92-mar10-stainedglass.php
Strawberry Glass and
Carolyn Goodwin took part in an exhibition by artists in
the Fens Cluster of Art on
the Map.
Stained Glass Treat for Red Hat
Ladies
Red Hat Society the Flinders Fillies
enjoyed a stained glass workshop recently at Unique
Cottage Farm Studios.Members of the club met Gillian
& David Wing from Strawberry Glass Design and made
their own Red Hat sun catchers in the large
studio.
Dorothy Short of the Flinders
Fillies said All the ladies were
so pleased with the organisation of the workshop and we
are genuinely thrilled to have learned something new and
have such a pretty item to take home.
Rags to Riches Day
Lorraine Appleton ran a very
successful workshop during the summer for adults and
children where participants made coiled fabric vessels,
rag rugs, and recycled patchwork bags.
Pigeon Pictures
Some local youngsters had a fun time
making their very own Pigeon Pictures at Unique Cottage
Farm Studios. The workshop which was run in
conjunction with the South Holland Centre preceded the
children's theatre show Don't
Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Big Wooden
Horse Theatre Company.
Three Day Sculpture
Course
Renowned Stamford based sculptor
Jonty Meyer ran a three day course on sculpting from
life. Students enjoyed the time concentrating on
creating a head from clay with gentle
guidance.
Mo
Teeuw's Acrylic Day
A
lovely day was recently enjoyed at the studios when
painter Mo Teeuw taught a new approach with
Acrylics. Participants went away with a set of
Atelier Iteractive paints, CD and water spray having had
a demonstraion of the new acrylic paints from Mo
ands some great tips on how to achieve a landscape with
a difference.
 
Green Shoots - Recycled Crafts Day a
huge success!
Over 60 people had a go at
crafts using recycled & natural materials on Saturday July 4 at Unique Cottage
Farm Studios. Participants enjoyed feltmaking and
weaving with Carolyn Goodwin, Paperclay with Roz
Fridholm, Mosaics demo with Fiona Gurney, a communal
collage & painting project with Charles Harrison,
flax animals with Helen Porter and a beautiful stall
stocking ethical yarns from Yorkshire based company
Moral Fibre. Gillian and David Wing at Strawberry Glass
Design had well over 20 participants having a taster
session of Stained Glass too.
The
BBQ was very popular too. Here are a few pictures of the
day!
 
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