40 stalls selling fine art, quality crafts and artisan foods, all made locally. A great opportunity to buy something unique and chat to the artist, craftsman or food producer who made it.
Make a Christmas Tree card- learn to embroider with the Corbet Bed Embroiders Trust at Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. £5 per child (accompanying adult free entry) Ticket price includes all day admission to museum. Age 8+
To start the year off the gallery will be filled with recent works by members of Qube art classes: Beginners Drawing and Painting, PaintAble and U3A Watercolour.
Are you looking to develop your skills with machine embroidery or wanting to learn how to use unusual or different techniques? In this workshop you will play with experimental and unusual surfaces that can revolutionise your creative stitched artworks such as dissolvable fabric, tyvek, photo transfer paper and lutradur.
We will teach you how to draw with your sewing machine and explore all of the basic techniques of Freehand Machine Embroidery. You will have the opportunity to will play with mark making and infilling using different stitch types and you will learn what can be achieved with the four creative fabrics.
Once you feel ready, we will help you to develop an image of your choice and create a small machine embroidered piece of artwork that incorporates some of the experiment fabrics. This workshop is suitable for complete beginners or anyone wanting to develop their practice. We usually require you to bring your own sewing machine with the ability to drop the feed dog. However, if you really want to have a go before committing to buying a sewing machine, please get in touch as we can often let you use one of our own. It is also helpful if you can bring some ideas or images that you would like to work with and develop (but not essential, as we have lots of visual stimuli)
10am-4pm
Cost £60 to include tea/coffee and free parking, please contact us to book
To book this event
Email info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone 07751 362171
Or see our website for more events https://www.myartshack.co.uk
In this workshop you will be learning how to make your own unique silver ring. You will be introduced to the tools and equipment used to create a silver band and then create your own design with Amy’s help. To make the ring you will use beginners silversmithing techniques such as saw piercing, soldering, adding texture and finishing. Groups are very small allowing for lots of help on an individual basis.
Amy Smith achieved a 1st class honours in a degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing at The Jewellery School in Birmingham in 2007, and went on to sell and exhibit a unique silver jewellery range at various prestigious shows and galleries in the UK, Germany and USA. She worked as a self employed jeweller for a number of years before going travelling and then returning to Shrewsbury and welcoming her daughter into the world. Since then Amy has combined making more wearable and accessible pieces of silver jewellery with teaching workshops in both jewellery and other crafts.
Refreshments will be provided throughout the workshop, but please bring your own lunch.
Please contact us to book.
07751 362171 or info@myartshack.co.uk
Portraiture can be a difficult subject matter to draw accurately and successfully. On this introductory workshop to charcoal portraiture, you will learn techniques, methods and process that are critical to achieve life-like portraits. You will learn the Riley method of drawing human faces, how to use measurement to increase accuracy, how tonal values can help in making charcoal portraiture more realistic and how different materials can be used to provide different effect. During the workshop their will be demonstrations as well as the opportunity to practice the techniques yourself.
Materials you will use include compressed charcoal, vine charcoal, charcoal pencil, blenders and putty erasers.
Live demonstrations and tuition will be given throughout by Bakhtiar Umataliev.
Cost £60 including parking and refreshments
Contact us to book https://www.myartshack.co.uk
Winner of the Qube Arts Open People’s Choice Prize, Ruby Reseigh will be exhibiting some of her latest work in a collaborative exhibition with some of her friends and fellow artists. Visit www.qube-oca.org.uk/qubeopen for details on the Arts Open 2020
This 2 hour workshop is a gentle introduction into writing the self through poetry.
No experience of writing necessary.
Deborah Alma is a UK poet and editor, teaches Creative Writing at Keele University and works as a writer in the community. She is also Emergency Poet prescribing poetry from her vintage ambulance & co-founder of the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle with her partner James Sheard.
Cost: £20
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DIRECTIONS AND AVAILABILITY!
Email – info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone – 07751 362171
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An exhibition of entries to this year’s photographic competition all on the theme of ‘Lines’. There is a best in show prize and People’s choice prize up for grabs. Visit www.qube-oca.org.uk/photography for details on how to enter.
In this day long workshop you will design and make a simple 3D vessel using a resist technique and fine merino wool. Wet felting is a process using wool, hot water, soap and repeated agitation to cause the fibres to hook together or weave together into a piece of fabric and you will learn different methods of doing this. Forming this fabric into a vessel can be very creative as felt is a very sculptural and responsive material. If you have particular ideas for design, colour or shape please let us know well before the workshop so that we can discuss.
*Further workshops will introduce more advanced skills in using the book resist technique, and different ways of creating texture and form in your work.
Cost £60 to include all materials plus refreshments
Gift vouchers available
Free parking
To book this event
Email info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone 07751 362171
Or see our website for more events https://www.myartshack.co.uk
Back by popular demand!!
This is a fantastic opportunity to have expert tuition in combining mixed media techniques with found images and drawings to create your own visual narrative. The workshop uses mixed media techniques in fun and effective ways to create unique 8 page books from a single piece of folded paper. We will be using image transfer and carbon paper so please bring laser printed or photocopies of any images you may want to use (There will be a supply of stock images you can use too) If you want to use text in your image transfer work remember to bring mirror image copies (we can do this for you if you can’t)
Katherine Soutar (Caddick) is an Artist and illustrator who specialises in themes of story and folklore. She has been illustrating folktales for both the history press and individual storytellers for many years. Katherine has also worked part time for the past 15 years in an academy school helping students develop both illustration and warm glass work for their GCSE’s and A levels. She regularly runs workshops in mixed media techniques and print and teaches on an annual art escape in Morocco. Katherine also has a diploma in Art therapy from Goldsmiths college.
Cost £55 including all materials, free parking, plus tea/coffee and cake throughout the day. We have a 30 minute break for lunch.
Contact us to book
Email – info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone – 07751 362171
Photo of Katherine by Jack Thompson
Watercolour, also aquarelle, is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.
During the first part of this day long workshop Artist Bakhtiar Umataliev will be demonstrating his watercolour painting skills, and giving expert advice (including his tips about working plein air).Following this you will be taught the basics of watercolour painting including composition, colour mixing and different brush techniques whilst creating your own urban landscape, with help and advice from Bakuma throughout. This workshop is suitable for complete beginners as well as the more accomplished painters.
Please bring your own sketchpad and paints if you have some, plus lunch.
Cost £60 including tea/coffee and cake. Free parking
Please contact us if you wish to book direct, or if you have any questions.
To book this event
Email info@myartshack.co.uk
Phone 07751 362171
Or see our website for more events https://www.myartshack.co.uk
The 20:20 print exchange, run by Hot Bed Press, started in 2009 with 10 artists from Hot Bed Press in Salford exchanging prints with another 10 from Red Hot Press in Southampton. It has since outgrown its humble beginnings and, since then, 60,000 prints have been exchanged. Each artist receives a unique box of randomly selected prints from across the UK, Ireland, and this year studios in Hong Kong and Canada.
This annual competition, organised by the Rotary Club of Oswestry, invites school children in and around Oswestry to submit a piece of art on a particular theme. Shortlisted works will go on display in Qube Gallery.
An exhibition of digital artworks, photographs and animations by students of Derwen College in collaboration with artists, Paul Kielty and Nadia Kingsley. The work on display will be the culmination of a digital art project funded by Arts Council England.
This popular annual competition returns in 2020 with a brand new theme. There is a cash prize for the Best in Show and exhibition space in 2021 for the People’s Choice favourite. Visit www.qube-oca.org.uk/qubeopen for details on how to enter.
Over the festive period the gallery will be filled with locally made arts and crafts, ranging from woodwork, ceramics and textiles to jewellery, books and fine art. The perfect place to pick up unique Christmas gifts.
