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Watershed Studio 

Welcome to Watershed Studio 

Watershed Studio is a family run, rural venue situated on the edge of our family farm. In the last twenty-one years we have built up a proven reputation for excellent courses, homely hospitality, delicious farmhouse food and a warm friendly welcome! 
 
If you ware wondering what you can do this autumn to satisfy your creative needs we are still taking bookings - don't leave it too late as many courses are already full but we do have some vacancies still.  
 
Our 2025 Programme is also now out and we are happy to take bookings for these new courses. Once again we have several new tutors and courses as well as our regular favourites so please do look down the whole list. We won't be producing a brochure again this year but regular round robin emails will include the programme dates each time so if you would like to be on that mailing list please do contact us. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WATERSHED STUDIO - who we are!  
✓ We run one and two day quality art and other creative courses from March to the end of November  
✓ We hire professional and popular tutors and cover watercolour, oils, pastels, acrylics, collage, line and wash, willow sculpture and other creative courses 
✓We enjoy a peaceful and rural location - surrounded by gardens and fields. 
✓ We are renowned for our warm welcome, great hospitality and farmhouse home cooking and there is plenty of off road parking 
✓ We are blessed with plenty of good, fairly local accommodation 
✓ We are easy to find and not too far from A12 turn off at Colchester 
✓ We value our local community and run regular charity events throughout the year  
Learn more about our courses with links through to our 2024 and 2025 Programmes: 
 
 
Here is a list of all the remaining Watershed Studio workshops 2024 at a glance: 
We provide a complimentary, one choice (plus veggie option) homecooked lunch, afternoon cake and refreshments on tap. Unfortunately we cannot cater for all diets or severe allergies so we may, in some cases, ask you to bring your own food.  
 
Some course prices do include your materials.  
 
Diary 2025 
March 
Sat 8th Toni Peers Silver Clay Jewellery £115 
Sat 15th Trevor Osborne Pastel Piggies £100 
Sat 22nd Nick Grosman and Fay Jones Green Wood Carving - Spoons and Spatulas £115 
Tues 25th & Wed 26th Margaret Glass Oil Portraits £200 
Sat 29th John Devitt Buildings with Character - pen and wash £100 
April 
Tues 1st Deb Hart Willow Weaving - obelisks etc £100 
Wed 2nd Mona Marnell Stained Glass - Spring Landscapes £115 
Sat 4th Nicky Hunter Watercolour - Sensational Swans £100 
Sun 5th Nicky Hunter Watercolour - Dancing Daffodils £100 
Wed 9th Lauren Kelly Lino Printing with Chine Colle £100 
Sat 26th Kate Keller Crochet Baskets £100 
May 
Tues 6th Sharon Henson Acrylics - Fast and Loose Seascapes £100 
Wed 7th Sue Butters Mosaic Magic £100 
Sat 10th Marta Dyer-Smith Gelli Plate Printing £100 
Tues 13th & Wed 14th Graham Webber Oil Landscapes - a broader approach £200 
Sat 31st John Devitt Experimental Techniques with Acrylic Inks £100 
June 
Tues 3rd David Webb Watercolour - Basics and Beyond £100 
Wed 4th David Webb Watercolour - Cats and Dogs £100 
Sat 7th Trevor Osborne Oils for beginners (and anyone!) - a figure £100 
Tues 10th Richard Taylor Watercolour Buildings £100 
Wed 11th Lavinia Hamer Expressive Acrylic Landscapes £100 
Tues 17th & Wed 18th Kate Rebecca Leach Watercolour - abstract botanicals and florals100 £100 
July 
Tues 1st & Wed 2nd Carole Massey Pen and Wash - a Watershed Sketchboook £200 
Sat 5th & Sun 6th Ian McManus Dynamic Watercolours - water and reflections £200 
Tues 15th Deb Hart Willow Weaving - Birds £100 
Wed 16th Mona Marnell Stained Glass - 3D £115 
Sat 19th Toni Peers Wet Felting - 3D bowls £115 
September 
Tues 9th Deb Hart Willow Weaving - a Wren Ball/poppy heads £100 
Sat 13th Trevor Osborne Polymer Clay - Hare in Motion £115 
Tues 16th Sharon Henson Acrylics - Fast and Loose Landscapes £100 
Wed 17th Mariya McAlister Acrylics - a Flower Head £100 
Sat 20th & Sun 21st Stephanie Mills Drawing the Portrait £200 
Tues 23rd & Wed 24th Margaret Glass Pastel - Land and Seascapes £200 
Tues 30th Mona Marnell Stained Glass - Landscape or Xmas £115 
October 
Wed 1st David Pasfield Thick and Thin Acrylic Seascapes £100 
Sat 4th John Devitt Paint your own cards - pen and wash £100 
Tues 7th & Wed 8th Ian McManus Watercolour Street Scenes - city and rural £200 
Sat 11th Kate Keller Crochet Baskets £100 
Tues 14th &/or Wed 15th Charles Evans Acrylic Landscapes £100/day 
Sat 18th Toni Peers Keepsake Silver Clay Jewellery £120 
November 
Sat 1st Trevor Osborne Fast and Loose Animals in water based media £100 
Tues 4th & Wed 5th Kate Rebecca Leach Abstract Watercolour Flow - pebbles/stripes £200 
Tues 11th Carole Massey Pastel - painting water, sea, rivers, ponds, puddles…. £100 
Wed 11th Carole Massey Drawing Techniques - Pen, Pencil, Charcoal £100 
Tues 18th Julie Chaney Christmas Calligraphy £100 
Wed 19th Mona Marnell Winter Stained Glass £115 
24th, 25th & 26th Allison Bond Christmas Wreaths £45