Introduction to Photoshop and - Image Editing C3523090

If you want to edit your digital photographs but don’t know where to start, if Photoshop’s controls are overwhelming, or you just want to explore the creative potential of this exciting medium, then this hands-on course is for you.

Essential materials: You will need to bring your own laptop with suitable photo editing software (such as Photoshop Elements), notepad and pen.

Fee: £88.00
Tutor Richard Jeffery
Venue Holton Lee, East Holton, Holton Heath, Poole, BH16 6JN
Date 8 meetings starting 07/01/2012 from 9:30am to 12:30pm (Half term break 18/02/2012) – End Date 03/03/2012

 

 

Creative Development in Drawing and Painting C3523101
This course of stimulating drawing and painting exercises will help you to develop your own style and creativity, escaping from the cares of the week, while building a portfolio of art work.

Essential materials required: pencils, charcoal, pastels, watercolour, acrylic, oil paints, painting paper, cartridge paper, set of brushes, mixing palette.

Fee: £38.00
Tutor Abi Kremer
Venue Holton Lee, East Holton, Holton Heath, Poole, BH16 6JN
Date Fridays 7:00 – 9:00pm, 5 meetings from 03/02/12 – End Date 09/03/2012

 

Documenting Purbeck – Landscape Masterclass C3523089
This hands-on specialist course will give you an excellent understanding of key landscape photography techniques and approaches. Based at Holton Lee, there will be trips to other Purbeck locations including a dawn and a dusk shoot.

Essential materials: A camera, notepad and pen, memory stick to bring in and store digital images. A tripod would be useful but is not obligatory.

Fee: £88.00
Tutor Richard Jeffery
Venue Holton Lee, East Holton, Holton Heath, Poole, BH16 6JN
Date 8 meetings starting 24/03/2012 from 9:30am to 12:30pm (2 week break for Easter holidays) –
End Date 26/05/2012

 

Soapstone Carving Workshop
Cost: £45 plus cost of stone
Tutor: Rachel Huggett
Venue: Stone carving area of Dutch barn, Holton Lee
Date: 31st March 2012
Time: 10:00 – 4:00

Note: Please wear boots or sturdy foot-ware, old clothes, dust mask (optional). Also, please bring your lunch with you (microwave available). Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
In this workshop, participants will create a small to medium sized soapstone carving. You will be shown how to develop your idea into 3D and how to apply the tools and techniques for carving in this soft stone medium. Soapstone is ideal for both first time carvers with no experience as well as more experienced carvers who would like the advantage of being able to realise their ideas more quickly. The stone gives a beautiful, smooth texture when completed and oiled. All tools are provided. If you have any ideas please bring them along – simple is best!
  

 

Growing Green: Organic Gardening Basics C3523091
The course will help you to begin or build on gardening in an environmentally friendly way. Organic techniques will be explained and discussed, and hands on activities will give you the chance to start ‘growing green’.
The course is not residential but B&B accommodation, with pre-bookable packed lunches, is available on site for anyone wishing to stay.

Fee: £44.00
Tutor Karen Gerry
Venue Holton Lee, East Holton, Holton Heath, Poole, BH16 6JN
Date Saturdays 10:00am to 1:00pm, 4 meetings from 21/04/12 – End Date 12/05/12
 

Soapstone Sculpture for the Visually Impaired
Cost: £45 plus cost of stone
Tutor: Rachel Huggett
Venue: Stone carving area of Dutch barn, Holton Lee
Date: 28th April 2012
Time: 10:00 – 4:00
Note: Please wear boots or sturdy foot-ware, old clothes, dust mask (optional). Also, please bring your lunch with you (microwave available). Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
This is an opportunity to explore the 3D space of sculpture with the guidance of your tutor. You will be using rifflers, rasps, sandpaper and other tools to create your own small to medium-sized carving from soft soapstone. Your tutor will take you through each process from the initial idea to the finished piece and explain how to get results from the different tools. Completed pieces can be refined to a smooth, sensual finish and oiled so it is a delight to experience. All tools are provided. You are welcome to bring along any ideas you have made up in clay or plasticine.

 

Make your own Shrinkpot
Cost: £45
Tutor: Rachel Huggett
Venue: Rachel’s Studio, Dutch barn, Holton Lee
Date: 5th May 2012
Time: 10:00 – 4:00
Note: Please wear boots or sturdy foot-ware and old clothes. Also, please bring your lunch with you (microwave available). Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Using traditional green woodworking techniques, this workshop will cover the step by step techniques and processes involved in making your very own shrink pot from a small trunk or branch of green wood. After the wood has been hollowed out, a seasoned piece of shaped wood is inserted into the bottom. Over a couple of weeks, the green wood shrinks around this to give it an airtight seal. A top is also fashioned from the same greenwood to give you a traditional wooden jar in which you can store anything from nuts to pencils. Shrink pots originate in Scandinavia where the Vikings used them to carry provisions on their long sea journeys. They are also found in Romania and other countries in the world. They are great fun to make!

 

 

Indoor crafts
Bring along your materials and join us to create, chat and learn new skills from each other. All abilities welcome. Refreshments available.
Joining fee £3 Weekly sub £1.50
For more info contact Jane - Mob 07403392266 or projects@holtonlee.co.uk

Silversmithing
Make your own silver jewellery with Jennifer Greenhow. These classes are designed for beginners and are held on Thursdays (11am – 2pm and 6 – 9pm) and Saturdays (11am – 2pm) in the studios at Holton Lee. Refreshments provided. For more details contact Jenny on Mob 07958006539 or jennygreenhow@hotmail.com

15 Days in Clay
This exciting project was originally set up to give small groups of adults with learning difficulties, and disabled adults in the Poole and Dorset area, the opportunity to be taught ceramics to an advanced level enabling learners to develop as artists in their own right.
The project aims to inspire and nurture the creative development of individuals in a professional ceramic environment. It has provided new opportunities for self-expression, confidence building and personal growth through the accessible medium of clay. Free taster sessions are offered at the start of the project to make sure this is something each individual wishes to access.
The quality of the work produced is of the highest standard enabling individuals to exhibit and to sell their work around the country. All students go through a process of assessment, with the possibility of accreditation.
15 Days in Clay take place three days a week in the Pottery Pavilion at Holton Lee
For more details contact Janna Edwards on 07980 563899 or visit the 15 Days in Clay website http://www.15daysinclay.co.uk

Studio 2 Printmakers
Studio 2 Printmakers provide a professional creative experience which offers participants an opportunity to engage with the process of printmaking. For more details contact Helen Brasher on 01202 511966 or helen.b@earthling.net The workshop was founded in 2005 by professional artists Helen Brasher and Janet Smith to promote the work and achievements of artists with learning disabilities. Visitors are welcome to our Studio on Fridays between 10.00 a.m. and 3 p.m. - please phone to avoid disappointment.

Out There Project
This service for disabled adults aims to provide opportunities for environmental discovery and to bring people closer to wildlife and the natural world. It is also about using that contact with nature as a source of inspiration for activities that are fun, creative and educational. You can visit Holton Lee for the day and in the morning use scientific equipment to get closer to wildlife. We have digital microscopes to view miniature worlds and special cameras that can film animals secretly at night. You can visit the bird hides and use our binoculars and telescopes or follow the wheelchair trail through a variety of habitats. Capture insects and bugs and find out more about their bizarre life cycles. In the afternoon, under the guidance of your tutor, work in artists’ studios or create artworks outside in the grounds using your morning’s environmental work as inspiration.
Out There workshops provide positive benefits to mental and physical health through simply being in quiet green spaces, carrying out satisfying creative activities and shaking off the stresses and strains of life through gaining contact with nature.

Your place or mine?
We can bring the Out There ‘eco creative road show’ to reveal new worlds on your doorstep, in your garden, local park, pond or nature reserve. Follow that up with a special art workshop that celebrates the magic and beauty of your local wildlife.
The Out There project is flexible and responsive and workshops can be planned with you, your organisation or group to meet your needs and interests, and to provide an experience that is satisfying, memorable and fun. We can provide half or full day workshops or residential wildlife breaks throughout the year.
Please contact Geoff Jones at Holton Lee for more details on 01202 625562 or on activities@holtonlee.co.uk
   

 

Holton Lee launches Autumn Workers' Educational Association Programme

 

With courses such as Getting to Know Trees Better to Digital Photography and from Creative Development in Drawing and Painting to Relaxation and Mindfulness and Growing Green, there really is something for everyone at Holton Lee this Autumn. 

 

Click here for the full programme and contact Geoff Jones on 01202 625562 or email activities@holtonlee.co.uk with all inquiries.

 

These courses are certain to be popular, so find out today!

 

 

WEA Leaflet (PDF) Activity Booking Form (PDF) Activity Booking Form (Word) 

 

A natural place for activities and education

 

Looking to learn? Sourcing a staff away-day? Examining events and education?

 

With 350 acres (142 hectares) of some of Dorset’s most biodiverse land available, as well as bespoke artists’ studios, gallery space and accommodation – and all accessible – at hand, Holton Lee is a natural place for learning in an informal way.

 

Geoff Jones, the Activities and Education Coordinator, is at Holton Lee to create more opportunities for the public to enjoy the charity’s facilities and grounds.

Geoff, who has been involved in education – particularly environmental education – at a number of levels for more than 30 years.

 

Although Dorset offers many opportunities for people to enjoy and learn about the environment and the arts, Holton Lee is exploring new directions and create innovative programmes, while working more closely with schools, businesses, clubs and interest groups.

 

It is already showing results.

 

Holton Lee is now collaborating with local schools designing specialist programmes for young adults with profound physical difficulties. More are on the way.

 

This spring and summer, it is hosting a series of courses with the Workers’ Educational Association centred around the arts and the environment. Click here to search for courses.

 

A series of inventively challenging corporate days for major local businesses is underway at Holton Lee. Gone are the days of pretend rope bridges across non-existent rivers; away days at Holton Lee are never less than inspiring and are always enjoyable.

 

 

 

 

 

For more information on activities and education at Holton Lee, contact Geoff Jones on 01202 625562 or activities@holtonlee.co.uk.