Workshops
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We offer a wide variety of craft workshops available at the gallery and outreach venues such as schools, community centres.
Suitable for the complete beginner right through to masterclass and professional development level.
We also offer a schools programme aimed at supporting teachers in delivering their art and design curriculum.
We welcome visits from school groups and can provide free talks about the craft made by our guild members and about the work within our special exhibitions.
All of our workshops are delivered by professional artists.
Drop-in craft sessions, arty parties and tailor made workshops are also available. Please contact us for more information.
You can book online or telephone 029 2048 4611 for further details or to make a booking.
Suitable for the complete beginner right through to masterclass and professional development level.
We also offer a schools programme aimed at supporting teachers in delivering their art and design curriculum.
We welcome visits from school groups and can provide free talks about the craft made by our guild members and about the work within our special exhibitions.
All of our workshops are delivered by professional artists.
Drop-in craft sessions, arty parties and tailor made workshops are also available. Please contact us for more information.
You can book online or telephone 029 2048 4611 for further details or to make a booking.
Upcoming 2019 Workshops
Painting with Egg Tempera, Amanda Blake
£105.00
16th February 2019
10:30 - 16:30
A one-day introduction to painting with Egg Tempera, with a focus on ‘ancient palette’ - working with traditional raw ground Earth and Stone pigments to explore the inherent luminosity, translucency and purity of colour unique to this ancient medium.
The day will involve an introduction to artists working in this medium, hands on experience making the egg yolk binder, painting with raw natural pigments (red and yellow ochres, umbers, and precious stone Lapis Lazuli and Malachite), and creating your own small painting on a natural gesso ground.
The day will allow for ideas around the nature of the pigments used, an understanding of the purity of this medium, the environment, and noticing that only what is natural goes down the sink at the end!
This is a workshop aimed at adults, no previous experience necessary, so would suit interested beginners, as well as artists wanting to expand their practice and approach.
Artists are advised to bring their own sketchbooks, and watercolour brushes if you have them, though one set of three high quality brushes are included in the materials cost which you can take home with some pigments at the end. All pigments, a natural gesso ground and other materials / tools will be provided.
Amanda Blake lives and works in Pembrokeshire and has built her practice around the use of traditional processes and natural materials to explore ways of questioning and deepening our connection to Nature and the environment, and to issues surrounding Sustainability, Value and Care.
A deep interest in phenomenology and philosophies of Being are at the heart of the work, and the choice to work with ancient processes such as fresco, egg tempera and watercolour is particular - it allows the use of solely natural raw materials - pigments, stone and earths - and their inherent qualities of colour and light to be pushed. It also involves a deep sense of touch, intimacy and the contemplative through the slowness and hands on nature of the processes used.
Amanda graduated with an MA Distinction in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art in 2009 and has spent time living and working in Italy as well as Wales, with a year studying Drawing and Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1995. She is currently Lecturer in Painting at Carmarthen School of Art.
Architectural Candle Lanterns
£45.00
23rd Febuary 2019
10am-1pm
Taking inspiration from a favourite building be it a ruined castle, a gothic church or modernist concrete this workshop focuses on developing your chosen inspiration into a slab built candle lantern.
You will be guided through simple development of ideas before being introduced to slab building methods using terracotta clay. You will be shown how to apply detail both as a relief and by piercing the structure which will ultimately allow the light to shine through your finished piece.
Once dry your finished piece will be fired at Craft in the Bay for collection at a later date.
Ideally bring a printed image with you, but there will be some provided if needed.
Half Term Crafty Workshop: Crafty Leaves
£5.00
Saturday 23rd February
Drop-in session 11:30 - 12:30
£5 (free if purchasing Crafty Leaves book from the gallery)
Jenny Kenna will be in the gallery helping children create pictures and characters with real leaves. They can have fun learning about the different leaves and trees they came from as well as making some wonderful collages to take home with them.
Jenny has written, created and presented several children's tv series including 'Windfalls', an animation series. In each programme all characters and scenes were created from dried leaves and flowers. She has run many children's workshops for schools, wildlife trust, Chelsea flower show, London Zoo and Waterstones books.
We have copies of Jenny's wonderful Crafty Leaves book for sale in the gallery and Jenny will be happy to sign these for you on the day. Book signing 12:30 - 13:00.
Half Term Crafty Workshop: Pottery
£10.00
Wednesday 27th February
10:00 - 12:00
Making Easter decorations with potter Louise Hall.
Half Term Crafty Workshops: Feltmaking
£10.00
Thursday 28th February
10:00 - 12:00
Learn how to transform colourful fleece into a lunch/treasure bag for you to take home with you. Ages 7 - 10 yrs.
10:00 - 12:00
Learn how to transform colourful fleece into a lunch/treasure bag for you to take home with you. Ages 7 - 10 yrs.
Enamelling Workshop (Half Day)
£45.00
2nd March 10.30-13.00
Love colour and pattern? Come and try your hand at enamelling on copper in this experimental workshop suitable for beginners or students with some prior experience. Work with pattern and mark making using techniques such as stencils, riso screens, scraffito and stamping. The use of powdered and liquid enamels with be explored. By the end of the day you will have a series of samples and a small panel to take home.
All essential tools and equipment provided on the day. A list of useful items to bring will be sent nearer the workshop date.
Creating Sketchbooks
£270.00
Six morning sessions
Dates: Tuesday 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March, Tuesday 2nd, 9th April 2019
Times: 10:00 – 13:00
Sketchbooks can be called many things - journals, notebooks, visual ideas books, visual diaries, workbooks...
A sketchbook provides a unique way to observe, explore and store information about whatever arouses your curiosity and interest. Ideas can flow through experimenting with drawing/mark making techniques, linking ideas, using annotated notes and simply enjoying the creative process. Sketchbooks are fascinating artworks in their own right - full of creative observations and ideas.
They also feed into further projects such as sculpture, painting, ceramics, textiles, interior design, event planning - they have limitless potential!
This short course will cover drawing and mark making skills through the use of a variety of drawing and printing materials and techniques. Inspiration from the structure, texture, pattern and colour within natural and man made forms will be a starting point for you to begin your sketchbook journey. Workshop includes monoprint and collagraph print techniques, stitch and collage.
Suitable for all abilities. Sketchbook and materials will be provided but you are welcome to bring any of your own drawing materials that you may have at home.
Sasha Kingston specialises in creating paper-textile artworks from her studio in Penarth. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Sasha's love of working with paper as a creative medium has grown, incorporating drawn and printed marks to the textured surfaces. Sasha is both artist and educator, regularly teaching art to young people and adults at different levels of their creative development. An active member of the Makers Guild Wales, you can see and buy her art pieces or commission a bespoke piece from Craft in the Bay.
Sasha will be in the gallery on Tuesday 12th February between 10:30 and 12:30 to show examples of her own sketchbooks and answer any questions about her course.
Paper Sculpture with Danielle Sullivan
£45.00
9th March
10:30 - 13:00
Artist Danielle Sullivan will show you how to create a floral sculpture and/or tiara,using the pages and structure of reclaimed books. She will teach you skills in folding and joining the paper to create your own three dimensional designs to take home - techniques that you can apply again to further projects.
Egg Tempera Painting (2 days) with Amanda Blake - SOLD OUT
£160.00
16th and 23rd March
10.30 -16.30
A two day introduction to preparing a natural Chalk Gesso painting ground and painting with Egg Tempera. The focus is on ‘ancient palette’ - working with pure ground raw Earth and Stone pigments and exploring the inherent luminosity and translucency unique to this ancient medium, as well as ideas around the environment and sustainability.
The first day will involve an introduction to the medium, the materials and to making Gesso. You will prepare your own grounds, explore grinding and preparing the pigments, and experiment with the earth and stone pigment palette which will include red, yellow ochres, umbers as well as Lapis Lazuli and Malachite.
The second day will involve finishing off your gesso panels, making your own egg yolk binder and creating the egg tempera paints to work with. It will allow time for layering, scratching in, as well as a demonstration on using the egg white for a different binder known as Glair, used in Medieval manuscripts for its pearlescent qualities and bright colours. You will have time to develop up to two small paintings as well as explore ideas around the nature of the pigments used, the environment, and an understanding of the purity of what is left that goes down the sink at the end!
This is a workshop aimed at adults, no previous experience necessary, so would suit interested beginners, as well as artists wanting to expand their practice and approach.Artists are advised to bring their own sketchbooks and watercolour brushes if you have them, although one set of three high quality brushes are included in the materials cost which you can take home, with some pigments, at the end of the day.
All pigments, and materials for the gesso ground and tools will be provided.
Coptic Bookbinding
£85.00
17th March 2019
10.30-16.30
Coptic bound books are constructed with decorative chain stitching across the spine which open flat when laid on a table. A little looser than a casebound book this allows for the addition of photographs or pictures to be added at a later date, without stressing the spine.
We will be making an A5 book (portrait orientation) containing around 160 writing or drawing surfaces of good quality cartridge, maybe adding some coloured or patterned sheets to create dividers and all contained within hard covers. The hardback covers are decorated from a choice of hand printed papers.
Bookbinder Carole King has been working using paint and printmaking with stitch, collage and combinations of techniques to convey her ideas. Using up trial prints and samples inspired some of her first books, quickly followed by prints especially designed to cover books and later ‘artists books’ constructed around a theme. From her rural stone barn studio she works through a wide variety of media including painting, printmaking and bookbinding. Her artists’ books include tunnel books, coptic bound and casebound hardbacks.
Open Spine with Decorative Stitch Bookbinding
£85.00
14th April 2019 10.30-16.30
A chance to create a beautiful A5 (portrait format) book with hardback covers and a decorative stitched spine.
We’ll be making a slection of good quality papers, with a mixture of white and colours, and then stitching the open spine with a combination of coloured tapes and threads.
Bookbinder Carole King has been working using paint and printmaking with stitch, collage and combinations of techniques to convey her ideas. Using up trial prints and samples inspired some of her first books, quickly followed by prints especially designed to cover books and later ‘artists books’ constructed around a theme. From her rural stone barn studio she works through a wide variety of media including painting, printmaking and bookbinding. Her artists’ books include tunnel books, coptic bound and casebound hardbacks.