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Design Your Own Printed Cushion or Tea Towel with Julia Fonnereau
Design Your Own Printed Cushion or Tea Towel with Julia Fonnereau – Create a unique piece of homeware or a thoughtful Christmas gift in this four-week creative course, where you’ll design your own fabric print inspired by animals, botanicals and seasonal nature themes.
Using pencil and watercolour, you’ll begin by creating a collection of beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, from festive woodland creatures and winter birds to flowers, foliage and botanical motifs. You’ll then learn how to develop your artwork into a finished design, ready to be transformed into a professionally printed fabric item.
Choose to create a cushion cover, tea towel or tote bag, with guidance on adapting your design to suit each format and proportion. Having your design professionally printed is entirely optional, but for those who wish to, finished items will be ready to collect from 8 December, making them perfect handmade Christmas presents.
The course fee covers tuition and design development. Printed products are charged separately, with cushion covers approximately £40 including the initial set-up fee. Additional items can be ordered at a lower cost, and participants are also welcome to arrange their own printing if preferred.
Starts: Tuesday 3 November
Duration: 4 weeks
Collection of printed items: 8 December
Suitable for beginners and improvers alike, this is a wonderful opportunity to turn your artwork into something both beautiful and practical.
Expect a relaxed, supportive atmosphere with plenty of encouragement, festive inspiration, and creative joy.
Let’s make something magical this season—come paint with us!
This gorgeous seasonal 4 week course, is suitable for all to have some fun whilst learning and drawing.
Julia Fonnereau is a qualified art teacher, having taught art to all age ranges from primary to A level and BTec Art and Design. She currently works as a freelance artist and surface pattern designer as Julia Fonnereau Design, specialising in animals and botanicals, and she exhibits her work all around the country including at our Southern Maltings Art and Craft Markets. Julia has been teaching art workshops to children in the holidays at Southern Maltings and it is finally time for the adults to join in the fun too!
Julia has a host of workshops and short courses in all forms of art including drawing, painting, watercolour, printing etc. Many of her workshops use interesting and original techniques including printing using a pasta machine! Her love is flora and fauna and she will share her passion for nature with you. Julia hopes to continue to run a continuous evening set of courses on Tuesday evenings which will be set into 4 week segments with a different theme for each.
Additional Information:
This set of workshops is aimed artists of all levels including beginners and Julia will teach you techniques to get you started or to improve your art. Suitable for anyone aged 14+.
The workshops are being run with a maximum capacity of 10 participants and will be from 7pm – 9.30pm at a cost of £90 for the course which works out to be just £22.50 per workshop. Light refreshments to help with your creativity are included.
The session will be held in our North Cowl, with entry via the Eastern End of the building.
The four weeks start on 4th November and continue on the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th November.
Please check our website for other workshop options, as we have a variety of workshops running for both adults and children throughout the Autumn, October Half Term and for Christmas!
Southern Maltings is the trading name of Ware Arts Centre Limited and is a registered charity (Registered charity no. 276998). All events are run by volunteers and proceeds go towards developing the Southern Maltings into an amazing creative arts centre which will enable us to put on a wider and more frequent range of events and activities for the whole community.