Come to The Winterbourne Press to be guided through the fascinating art of printing.
Starting with choosing the right font for the job and going right through to taking a ‘pull’ for your first printing image, this short day course is a wonderful introduction suitable for any adult with an interest in the subject.
All equipment is provided, but please wear clothes you don’t mind getting slightly dirty and if you have any mobility issues let us know so that we can ensure that we can accommodate you.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets can be purchased from the Winterbourne shop or via the Book Now button on this page.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above.
Use shaving foam to mono-print coloured patterned papers from, and then use these papers to create paper bugs to live in a box jungle.
Suitable for children aged five years and over. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
We strongly advise pre-booking as space is limited. Tickets cost £7 per child and each ticket will allow free entry to Winterbourne for the child and one accompanying adult. Tickets can be booked in the Winterbourne shop or via the Book Now button on this page.
Siblings aged under five, who will not take part in the activity, are welcome to come along for free, but please note that all children making shave-foam printed bug boxes must have a ticket.
Claire Leggett is Artist-in-Residence at Winterbourne House and Garden. She is a colour, pattern and print loving painter and designer. She studied Fashion and Textiles before training as a primary school teacher, but now combines her own art with teaching art and design to all ages.
1st May - The Barber Collective ‘Currents:Empire & Migration’
5-7PM at The Barber Institute
15th May - The Barber Collective ‘Currents:Empire & Migration’
5-7PM at IKON
30th May - The Barber Collective ‘Currents:Empire & Migration’
5-7PM at IKON’s Slow Boat
1st June - The Barber Collective ‘Currents:Empire & Migration’
2-4PM at IKON
Another chance to see this talk which sold out in February.
Sarah Moss was artist in residence at Winterbourne between 2015 and 2018 and has created a series of linocut prints inspired by Winterbourne’s history.
Join her as she talks through her work, and visit her exhibition to see the archival sources that lay behind it.
Ticket prices:
£5 Members
£7 non members
Free for UOB and BCU staff and students on production of their University cards
Calling all young artists 4-12 years - join us each Sunday and get creative! Learn from our team of experienced artist educators and try a new skill or technique each week using top quality, artist-grade materials and equipment. Explore the galleries, get inspired, create your own artwork and make friends!
On this course you will learn the techniques of copper foiled (Tiffany) stained glass. You will be taught all the skills to create two small pieces of stained glass including: glass cutting, grinding, foiling, soldering and finishing. Using these skills you will make a star and another small suncatcher to hang in a window.
You will learn how to safely use the specialist equipment and materials that are involved in the stained glass process, such as cutters, grinders and soldering irons.
Tools, materials and equipment are provided.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets can be purchased in the Winterbourne shop or via the Book Now button on this page.
Using as inspiration the lush plants of Winterbourne’s garden and glass houses, learn to use collage to add colour, texture and additional interest to your own single block Lino cuts.
No previous experience of Lino cut printing is required, but the workshop would also suit anyone who has attended past workshops who wish to develop their skills.
All materials are provided. Please bring an apron or wear old clothes.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets can be purchased via the Book Now button on this page or in the Winterbourne shop.
Sarah Moss was previously Artist in Residence at Winterbourne House and Garden and continues to offer her popular workshops here. An exhibition of Sarah’s work inspired by Winterbourne runs until late August 2019. Click here to see Sarah’s blog.
“Great tutor. Excellent fun“, “The tutor was excellent, great communication skills – very patient” – participants at Sarah’s Reduction Lino workshop at Winterbourne in May 2018.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above.
Why not join our monthly book club for a stimulating and informal discussion of books that link to the Barber’s magnificent collection and the themes its works explore?
The ever popular Barber Book Club continues throughout the year, exploring literature related to themes within our permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. We welcome ideas from participants for future book club sessions.
14/05/19 - Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
11/06/19 - Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
09/07/19 - Little by Edward Carey
13/08/19 - The Woman by Claire Messud
Love art? Aged 13 – 15 years? Want to see amazing artworks, be inspired by real artists and try out new ideas?
Come along to our twilight workshops? Learn new art skills to impress your friends and art class back at school.
This workshop will explore ‘en-plein-air’ (painting outside) techniques to capture the light and atmosphere in the grounds of Winterbourne House and Garden, in a loose and impressionist style. With RBSA artist Wayne Attwood.
All abilities and painting media applicable.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets cost £45 or £40 for Winterbourne Members and can be purchased using the Book Now button on this page or in the Winterbourne shop.
Materials and equipment:
As we are hoping to work at locations in the garden, it is advisable that participants consider work clothing for outdoor painting, suitable for the weather conditions on the day and that you don’t mind getting paint on.
“Wayne is a superb tutor and the gardens offer a wonderful choice of subjects for the artist” – participant at sketching workshop in 2017.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above. If you have any questions, please contact us using the Ask a Question button on this page.
Learn how to cut, prepare and fuse small glass pieces using a ‘hot pot’ kiln and microwave. Traditional glass fusing in a kiln takes hours, but in this workshop you will use a microwave and a ‘hot pot’ kiln which fuses small pieces in just ten minutes or less! You will experiment with clear and coloured glass, dichroic glass and metal inclusions to create two or three pieces of jewellery, such as a pendant and pair of earrings.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and all equipment and materials are provided, though you are welcome to bring your own ideas, patterns and pictures as inspiration.
This workshop is now fully booked. To be added to our courses mailing list for information about future courses please use the Join Waiting List button on this page.
Clare Wainwright has been working with glass for about 17 years, she makes sun-catchers, mirrors, lampshades and more, and loves to experiment with new techniques such as acid etching and adding images into glass. Clare has taught at various locations including mac Birmingham, Centre of England Arts, and Winterbourne. You can find out more about Clare at her website.
“Clare was very patient and informative”, “Very good course – Clare is an excellent teacher.” – participants at Clare’s 2017 Winterbourne workshops.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above. If you have any questions, please contact us using the Ask a Question button on this page.
Delve into the Barber's past in this 90 minute walk and talk and find out how the Barber came to be. Learn about our founders, Sir Henry and Lady Barber, explore our wonderful art deco architecture and take a look at some of the very first purchases that started our collection back in the 1930s.
Create intaglio prints using the dry point method of printmaking and by scratching into a plastic or metal plate. Winterbourne’s garden will be your inspiration to produce a series of prints to take home. You will learn how to incorporate shade, mark-making and colour to extend the design.
This workshop is suitable for beginners or for artists who want to refresh their knowledge.
All materials are provided, just bring along your sketchbook and camera.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets can be purchased in the Winterbourne shop or via the Book Now button on this page.
Kerry Phillips is a painter and printmaker, her subjects include portraits, landscapes and botanical drawings. Kerry will be exhibiting at Winterbourne during the Year of Print as a member of the Birmingham Printmakers, whose exhibition runs from 5th July to 14th August.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above.
On this course you will learn the techniques of copper foiled stained glass work and will be taught the skills of cutting, grinding, foiling and soldering to create stained glass garden stakes. The designs might include fairly simple flowers and vegetables or more intricate ladybirds, dragonflies, bees and birds etc. Your finished glass piece can be soldered onto a 1m rod and used to mark your vegetable patch or maybe to brighten up a dull area of your garden!
You will learn how to safely use the specialist equipment and materials that are involved in the stained glass process, such as cutters , grinders and soldering irons.
Tools, equipment and materials are provided.
Learn how to cut and work with a wide range of coloured and textured glass. During the day you will learn how to cut glass and glue it onto a pattern of your own design or from a sample provided to produce a lovely glass appliqué panel. The grouting process will be discussed with a demonstration as this may need to be completed at home when the piece is fully dry. You will learn how to safely use the specialist equipment and materials that are involved in the glass appliqué making process, such as cutters, grinding stones, mosaic cutters/nippers etc.
Please bring with you:
Tools, equipment and materials are provided (extra items can be purchased on the day). You do not need any previous experience of working with glass.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets can be purchased from the Winterbourne shop or via the Book Now button on this page.
Clare Wainwright has been working with glass for about 17 years, she makes sun-catchers, mirrors, lampshades and more, and loves to experiment with new techniques such as acid etching and adding images into glass. Clare has taught at various locations including mac Birmingham and Centre of England Arts, and this will be her first workshop at Winterbourne. You can find out more about Clare at her website.
Our courses are suitable for 18 years or above.
Ecoprinting, or botanical contact printing, is a contemporary adaptation of the ancient tradition of colouring fabric with plant material. By compressing foliage against cloth and applying heat, the shape and pigment of the leaves can be permanently imprinted onto cloth, producing fascinatingly delicate and detailed designs.
During this workshop you will work with sample fabric to learn the technique, and then progress to printing a beautiful silk scarf to take home with you. Foliage will be provided from Winterbourne and a ready prepared blank silk scarf is included. You will learn everything you need to continue practising this fascinating craft at home.
Pre-booking is essential. Tickets cost £70, or just £60 for Winterbourne members and staff and students of University of Birmingham. Tickets can be purchased via the Book Now button on this page or in the Winterbourne shop.
This course is for people who are interested in learning about becoming a beekeeper. The course covers:
The natural history of honeybees is truly fascinating and the hobby is very rewarding for those that take it up.
The sessions are delivered by members of Birmingham & District Bee Keepers Association over six weeks. The teaching is classroom based with some practical, hands on content over one and a half hours. All practical materials are provided.
Legendary mountaineer Doug Scott give a fascinating insight into how a lad born in Nottingham during the darkest days of WWII got into climbing on the Black Rocks in Derbyshire - aided with nothing but his mother’s clothes line, and how this led him to Everest in 1975.
At dusk on 24 September, Doug and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic expedition to the mountain’s south-west face. As darkness fell they scraped a small cave in the snow 100 metres below the summit and survived the highest bivouac ever – without bottled oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it was the fulfilment of a fortune-teller’s prophesy given to his mother: that her eldest son would be in danger in a high place with the whole world watching.
Scott and Haston returned home national heroes with their image splashed across the front pages. Scott went on to become one of Britain’s greatest ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs in the remotest corners of the globe. His career spans the golden age of British climbing from the 1960s boom in outdoor adventure, to the new wave of lightweight alpinism throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Proceeds from the evening will support the work of Community Action Nepal www.canepal.org.uk and include a sale of Nepalese goods and an auction of signed framed mountaineering prints. Doug will show a short video about CAN and update the audience about the post-earthquake reconstruction of CAN’s projects. He will also be signing copies of his posters and books.
