Workshops

In-person Workshops

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.

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English Rose

West Dean College

2-5 June 2025

The study and making of an English multi-petaled rose and leaves from silk, covering many techniques from silk painting to the shaping of petals. Using real flowers as inspiration for colour and form, you will have the opportunity to study the construction of a multi-petaled English rose, with its clusters of pleated petals.

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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.

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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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