I love sharing my creative practice and have extensive experience teaching art workshops over the past 25 years including: to primary schools where my landscape paintings have been included as part of the permanent primary curriculum. To art teachers looking to expand their skills at specialist conferences. To art groups of amateur and professional artists in my studio in South Norfolk and various community spaces. To refugees and asylum seekers as a nurturing art approach. In university, school, museum, gallery and festival settings. Workshops have been featured in Artists & Illustrators, Norfolk Magazine, Radio Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire.
Join me at my studio in Raveningham for a workshop day or work from home with one of these free downloadable projects. For more info about bespoke workshops email sarah.cannell1@gmail.com
Book clay, linoprint, painting, stitch workshops HERE
Enjoy this free downloadable Stitch project PDF below. Step by step images @creative_spark_workshop You can buy the complete kit through my shop: printed booklet, french linen, needle, threads, tracing paper. All you will need is a pencil, a comfy chair, good light and some time to chill.
Embrace your creativity with workshops at Raveningham in South Norfolk.
Clay Club – weekly Sun 10 – midday & Mon 6-8pm
£18 per session, materials and firings included. BOOK HERE
Book a one off session or attend weekly. You can develop work over the course of a few weeks and have work bisque fired and then play around with colour and glaze. Learn how to make pinch/coil/slab pots, use the potters wheel or bring your own ideas to develop. We work with white earthenware clay and use colourful brush on glazes.
Creative Spark – Art Club – weekly Wed 6-8pm
£18 per session, materials included. BOOK HERE
Creative Spark is a weekly art club for adults who want time, space, and proper materials to make work. Maybe you want to try linoprint or develop your drawing and painting skills. You might want to combine drawing, sketchbook and stitching or perhaps you are looking for fresh inspiration in a friendly, well stocked, studio space. You can develop work over the course of weeks and months, learn new techniques, experiment with materials, work at your own pace with the support from established artist Sarah Cannell. If you’ve been wanting to make art but struggling to find the time, motivation, or confidence — this is for you. Small group (max 10 people), all materials provided, and gentle guidance from an experienced artist — without the pressure of a class.
Lino Print Day
BOOK HERE – 10 -3pm, £65, all materials included.
Learn the process of cutting and printing a lino ‘key block’ (the main design), by the end of the day you will have produced at least one linoblock and printed a small series of images. The print can be coloured with watercolours, inks, pencils at home when it is thoroughly dry and Sarah will be able to advise on tools and materials to enable participants to continue cutting and printing designs at home without requiring a press. The process involved can be very meditative and working in a small group is often a lovely way to create artwork. Sarah supplies a number of galleries in East Anglia with her popular linoprints and specialises in hand colouring with watercolours and inks.
Landscape Walk, Draw, Paint
BOOK HERE – 10 -3pm, £65, all materials included.
Explore the beautiful landscape of South Norfolk and North Suffolk in a one-day workshop with established Painter Sarah Cannell. Free up your drawing skills and learn how to capture the essence of a place through line and bold colour. This workshop focuses on developing drawing skills and finding strong compositions as a starting point. Working on a series of small works we will use a mix of pencil, pen, ink and acrylic paint on paper. Workshops start with drawing out in the countryside and then returning to the studio in Raveningham to work the drawings up into paintings.
Ceramic Plate and Cup Workshop
BOOK HERE – 10 -3pm, £65, all materials included.
Stitch Journal
Date TBC
Using beautiful antique French linen and a diversity of threads and fragments of beautiful textiles we will create a number of ‘pages’ to produce a tactile stitch journal. The day will be spent creating pages and considering journal construction. We will use simple stitches and hand sewing to create each page. The project can then be added to and continued at home for additional days, months or years!
Willow Lantern
Free PDF Instructions
Willow Lantern, perfect for bringing in the light. Download PDF instructions here for free.
Materials you will need: Wet strength tissue paper (google – carnival paper), masking tape, PVA (50/50 mix with water), brush, willow, string, small light (google – balloon light), secateurs.
Workshop information
Based in a cosy studio in at The Raveningham Centre, Beccles Road, Raveningham, South Norfolk, NR14 6NU (12 miles south of Norwich), Sarah’s workshops are suitable for all abilities with her relaxed approach giving beginners confidence and her depth of knowledge being a useful source for more confident and established artists to bounce ideas off. Participants should expect to come away from each workshop with fresh ideas as well as a renewed enthusiasm and creative drive. Bring an apron, all materials included, bring a packed lunch. Small class sizes, maximum 12 students per workshop. Free parking.
Where to stay: We have 2 rooms available via AirBNB. There are also a number of B&Bs and hotels in the area, the local market town Beccles is only a 10 minute drive from the workshop.
The workshop should be paid for in full when booking a place. Payment is non-refundable, if you are not able to attend your workshop you can choose an alternative date.
Make sure you have appropriate footwear and clothing if you are booking onto a Walking Drawing Painting course. The routes are not strenuous but could be muddy.
Bespoke art workshops available to suit all ages and abilities. Whole day and part day available as well as longer projects including final exhibition. All enquiries welcome, references available. 07718 390108 or sarah.cannell1@gmail.com
Recommendations
Mrs Slade, Head of Art, Norwich School
“Sarah developed a landscape project for us which included gallery visits, drawings in the marshes and painting in the studio. I would highly recommend her inspiring approach.”
Mrs Holzer, Headteacher, Poplars Primary, Lowestoft
“Our pupils felt a huge sense of achievement and freedom creating paintings with Sarah, they loved it and the exhibition featuring their artwork boosted their self-esteem.”
Comments from students
“Amazing workshop – taken through each stage, very interesting and exciting”
“This has been an enjoyable day. I enjoyed the mix of activities. Sarah was great, full of enthusiasm”
“The walk was very beautiful in the morning and lovely reflections and shadows on the river. The painting was exciting and I enjoyed trying a totally new medium and drawing with a stick – very uninhibiting!”
“Very interesting take on landscape drawing – Sarah is very knowledgeable on ways of freeing up your drawing style.”
During lockdown 2020 I recorded this short film with my son which teaches you how to make a paper boat. All you need is an A4 sheet of paper. Enjoy!