Join visual artist Lindsay Viner in our under 18s art and craft holiday club and get festive in this creative workshop packed full of Christmas crafting, creativity and plenty of sparkle!

In this workshop you will make your own beautiful and colourful Christmas tree toppers to take home, exploring a range of fun and accessible arts and crafts along the way.

Making decorative stars or festive fairies, you can experiment with different materials, colours, textures and embellishments, adding your own creative ideas to each project. There will be lots of opportunities to cut, stick, wrap, paint, decorate and get wonderfully crafty. You will be encouraged to make your projects their own, so every decoration will be completely unique.

This is a relaxed and playful workshop for those who love making things and want to create some special handmade decorations for Christmas. You will leave with festive creations to decorate your home or give as gifts.

Tutor: Lindsay Viner
Date & Time: Saturday 12th December, 10am - 12:30pm OR 1:30pm - 4pm
Venue: Scissors Studio, New Brewery Arts
Price: £30 (£0.00 VAT)

Please note, students will need to be signed in and out of the class by their adult. If your child is taking themselves to and from the class, please notify us beforehand.

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend until 4pm.

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Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is suitable for those aged 8 - 12 years. All abilities are welcome, you just need enthusiasm and a love of making!

What you will need:
All materials are provided.

Please wear clothes you are happy to get messy, or bring an apron.

Meet Your Tutor - lindsay viner

Lindsay is fascinated by the landscapes, places and stories of those who have gone before us and the ones that we give to those who come after us.

She predominantly use drawing and paint and reclaimed textiles to explore ideas about inheritance. How we receive and process the places, lands, thoughts, feelings and objects (and the marks on these things) that are handed down to us. And what we in turn, both consciously and unconsciously, choose to pass on. As the fourth generation of her family to live on the farm, with her son in the fifth, Lindsay’s work often centres around this particular small slice of the natural world in which she feels profoundly embedded.

​Reclaimed textiles have inherent notions of previous stories, often with coupled the intimacy of being associated with the body or the domestic, that can hold unique resonances; drawing and paint, for her, has a newness and immediacy that connects her to the subject in present, at that singular moment when her brush meets the canvas or paper.

Lindsay is passionate about encouraging other's creativity, and about the potential role for art and craft in our mental wellbeing and has worked as an artist and workshop leader for community groups, and particularly support groups for those with anxiety and depression for over 5 years.