Textiles in the New Forest
28 September-5 October 2020
Join us for our third creative retreat in Britain’s beautiful New Forest an hour and half southwest of London with artists Mandy Pattullo and Anna Corba. The retreat begins with a welcome and pre-dinner drinks at Heathfield House, the Georgian manor house that will be your home from home for the next seven nights. This comfortable and elegant house has beautifully designed bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms and a 15-acre estate of private gardens and fields.
During the week internationally renowned artist Mandy Pattullo will show you how to use beautiful vintage quilts and fragments of fabric to create your own textile collages and paper artist Anna Corba will teach a series of whimsical projects live from the US via Zoom.
Mandy is a British artist, with an international reputation who uses tattered and worn fabrics in her textile collage work. You’ll learn the techniques and processes behind Mandy’s signature style and how she unpicks quilts to reveal each layer and hand-stitch the fragments in place using surface decoration and stitch. embroidery and appliqué. Well-worn books, music scores, postcards, ribbons and lace are US artist Anna Corba’s stock in trade and she will show you how these simple materials can be transformed.
We plan to visit the nearby colourful coastal town of Lymington, an ancient seaport town recorded in the Domesday Book, to shop in the High Street’s independent and boutique shops or walk along the coast to Lymington's Nature Reserve. We’ll also take other trips out in the local area, scouting out antiques when possible.
Our private chef will be on hand during the week to prepare delicious meals using fresh, local ingredients. We’ll have two lunches out, one at a typical British pub and the other at a local restaurant acclaimed for its food.
Essential information
7 nights/8 day creative retreat 9 luxury ensuite bedrooms available for single occupancy Maximum 9 guests Prices£3300 per person, single occupancy
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Included
7 nights at Heathfield House
All meals unless stated (please see itinerary)
4.5 days tuition with Mandy Pattullo and Anna Corba
All workshop materials
Trips and local transport Excluded
Airfares to UK
Airport transfers
Transport to Heathfield House
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“Keep doing what you do! You do it so well, I look forward to many more retreats...”
Denise R., United States
YOUR ARTISTS
Mandy Pattullo is a Textile artist based in Northumberland, England. She trained as a surface pattern designer before moving into teaching full-time. She left teaching and chose to develop work with old and worn textiles. She cuts up old and unpicks old quilts, darns and constructs new textile collages usually embellishing with simple embroidery and traditional appliqué.
mandypattullo.co.uk
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Anna corba
Anna is an internationally known collage artist, experienced instructor and author of five books on paper crafting. She specialises in creating artful objects using vintage ephemera... journals, notecards, candle jars and more. She teaches in the US and at Chateau Dumas in France where she will teach for the seventh year running this year. Her product line has been featured in shops around the globe.
annacorbastudio.com
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