Spring Florals: Watercolour & Calligraphy Workshop
Spring Florals: Watercolour & Calligraphy Workshop
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🌸🌼🌷 Join local calligrapher, Laura Edralin, and watercolour artist, Eve Leoni, for this special spring workshop, hosted with Stems & Vines on Saturday 17 May.
Explore floral blooms through two mindful art forms; learn the calming practice of calligraphy and the expressive style of watercolours!
Laura and Eve will be guiding you through a 2.5 hour spring-inspired workshop, with Philippa from Stems & Vines providing fresh floral arrangements to inspire us, plus a welcome drink on arrival!
During the workshop you will:
Explore the calming art of brush pen calligraphy - bring words to life with flowing, expressive strokes! ✍️
Enjoy the mindful medium of watercolours - learn the techniques to blend, layer, and paint with confidence! 🖌️
Combine your new skills to create a final, spring-inspired, hand painted and calligraphed, one-of-a-kind artwork! 🖼️
TICKETS
We're hosting two sessions, with limited tickets available at either:
1pm - 3.30pm - SOLD OUT
5pm - 7.30pm
Tickets cost £65 pp, and include a welcome drink, all your workshop materials and lots of goodies to take home! No materials required, everything will be provided. All creative levels welcome. For adults, 18+
🥂 We invite you to join us 15 minutes before the start time to settle in and enjoy a welcome drink. Fancy a bit more? Wines, flowers and deli boards will be available to purchase.
ABOUT THE TEACHERS
Eve Leoni is a local artist, originally from Cleethorpes in Grimsby. After moving to London to complete her degree in musical theatre, she rediscovered her love for painting as a form of therapy throughout lockdown. She sells original paintings and illustrated gifts all across the world, and loves creating theatre-inspired artwork for fellow performers and creatives in the West End.
"I’m always inspired by my seaside hometown, so I love incorporating nature, lots of florals and pretty coloured skies into my work. I love to capture happy memories and celebrate the beauty of home through the use of my pastel-coloured, whimsical watercolour style" - Eve
Laura Edralin is a local calligraphy artist and teacher sharing ways to help people support their wellbeing and mental health using creativity and mindfulness, through the art of calligraphy. She offers public and private workshops, workplace sessions to help people get creative, and calligraphy services to provide a personal touch for events and more.
"Calligraphy has given me a new tool for my own wellbeing kit which I love sharing with others. I'm particularly passionate about helping people tap into their inner creative, find a space to calm their busy lives and to re-connect - whether that’s with themselves, or with others." - Laura
Laura Letters Life | @lauraletterslife
ABOUT THE HOST
Stems & Vines, created by Philippa Smith (formerly of Francis Smith flowers), is about making sure you can drink delicious wine, in a gorgeous environment, you feel safe, comfortable and relaxed in. With a background in wines and hospitality, and as a florist for the last six years, she's blending her two passions, flowers and wine in this ultimate new venture awaiting it's new home.
"We will let our creativity flow, we will be making the most of what Mother Nature provides and we will be celebrating everyone who is making the small differences to ensure that these luxuries we take from her have an ever decreasing negative impact on the world itself." - Philippa
Stems & Vines | @stems_and_vines
ABOUT THE VENUE
Opening its doors in 2024, Askew Gallery is a new art gallery on Askew Road in West London, offering a space to enrich the cultural community of Askew Road and it's surrounding areas. An initiative by Matt Hedges and Warren Hagues, partners at CP Architects, under their studio in a surprisingly light and large lower ground floor.
PLEASE NOTE: Access to gallery is down spiral staircase.
Location
Askew Gallery @ CP Architects, W12 9AU