In-person Workshops
Lily of the Valley
13-16 February 2025
Learn to make a sprig of Lily of the Valley using specialist flower tools, exploring different combinations of silks and velvet to create perfect bell shaped flowers and realistic leaves.
Making Silk Flowers
Hand & Lock School, London
22-23 March 2025
This two-day workshop will introduce you to the craft, and you will learn some of the techniques, including stiffening silk, bonding layers, hiding wires, blending and layering of dyes to create a natural effect. Anne will demonstrate how to use heated flower tools, both the French tools and the Japanese somebana tools, for mark-making and shaping to bring a flat piece of fabric to life magically.
5 Day Silk Flower Making
Hand & Lock School, London
7-11 July 2025
Over the five days Anne will show you how to make a variety of lifelike botanicals using a range of silk fabrics and air dried clay. You’ll learn skills from preparation and stiffening of fabric, painting with dyes and shaping petals using heated tools, both French and Japanese. She will share her techniques and range of methods to create beautiful flowers. You’ll learn how to create different petals forms, binding stems, leaves, hiding wires, and making your own pollen and stamens.
You will leave with a selection of finished flowers and the confidence and skills to create your own flowers at home.
What people say…
I am so happy to have found the most brilliant teacher…
Maya Laemmli, Switzerland
I had been long looking for a teacher with whom to further develop my flower-making skills when I found Anne. I was instantly captivated by the exquisite quality of her work. How she lovingly observes each specimen and brightly develops a way to give shape to them to the most minute detail. Moreover, she is an attentive and most welcoming teacher… I relished the days I spent with her and I can’t wait to go back and continue learning.
Ana Lamata, Madrid, Spain
…thank you for a fantastic class yesterday at West Dean, loved it. So professional and very safe and enjoyable.
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