Cornish Craft Barn

Stitch Up - Weekly Club
2026-05-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-05-01 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Stitch Up Club here at Cornish Craft Barn. It’s a relaxed, weekly get-together for anyone who loves—or wants to love—all things stitching and textile arts.

What we all love about it:

There’s no pressure: you bring your project (or ideas) and work at your own pace

The vibe is warm, informal, and friendly — perfect for chatting, sharing tips, or just enjoying creative company

It’s open to all levels: absolute beginner, intermediate, or seasoned stitcher

You get to see what others are up to — it’s inspiring and encouraging

Cake, we always have cake and lots of coffee There’s something so soothing about settling in with needle and thread, a cuppa nearby, and time to just make. If you’ve ever been curious to try something new (embroidery, quilting, mending, whatever), this might be your kind of space. We have huge tables to lay out projects on or put quilts together on, and sewing machines and overlockers you can use. The view’s not too bad either

Wheal Treasure Stitch Club - 1st Tuesday Monthly
2026-05-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Welcome to one of our many Cornish Craft Barn Stitch Groups. We run several regular groups that meet once a month. If you’re interested in joining one, please contact us or book in to attend if we have spaces available.

This is an all-day session where you can work on quilting projects on machines or by hand with other quilters who are looking to share ideas and experience and can provide guidance for each other – plus lots of lovely chat, cake and coffee! It is not a ‘tutored’ session but a room filled with abundant expertise from which to seek assistance. We can offer short demonstrations or mini projects from time to time if this is something the group decides they want!

The session runs from 10am – 4pm but feel free to attend as much of this as you can to fit in with your other commitments. Lunch can be bought from the cafe with a 10% discount. Plenty of parking outside and we can give you a hand to get your machines upstairs to the training room if needed.

We have several new Janome quilting sewing machines available to borrow for the day if you need one or find it easier than bringing one in from home. Please book ahead or let us know if you need one so we make sure we have enough available. There is a small charge of £2 per day if you use a machine payable on the day.

We ask for payment quarterly in advance £15 per session, so £45 which covers three sessions for you. If you can’t make a session you can use a credit up on any of the other Wheal monthly groups we run, or carry one session over in any 6 month period.

Tuesday Art Club — New Members Welcome
2026-05-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
The month of May is a four-session block £72 (£18 per session), all materials and refreshments included (paint, brushes, paper & refreshments!) ~ Oil painting art studio sessions and some plein air too!

In response to popular demand and with Thursday morning sessions now over-subscribed, we have a new instance of the popular Creativity Unleashed Art Club. New monthly themes, always a variety of media from watercolour to acrylics to oils and everything in between, are used regularly to create variety and stimulate inspiration.

Sessions includes 10% café and shop discount on the workshop days. These sessions are designed as an ongoing series to inspire and develop art skills in various media. You will engage in fun, creative, and practical weekly activities that utilise multiple media and unexpected materials. Your creativity will be unleashed! If you thought you were not creative or ‘arty’, unable to draw or produce pleasing artwork, these sessions are specifically for you. You will learn to draw, paint, and develop creative ideas, then visually bring them to life.

Throughout these sessions, you will learn how to use watercolours, acrylics, inks, printing, and much more. In sessions, we will navigate the journey to unlock our dormant or suppressed creativity. We will inspire you to work on mini-projects and actively encourage you to do so to unlock your creative potential as you develop your art skill set and ‘find your style’!

Student Work | Previous Sessions

Watercolour Ink & Wash Travel Journalling Half Day Workshop!
2026-04-29 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
✒️ Ink & Wash Travel Journalling Workshop

Learn to capture your world in a beautifully loose and expressive style inspired by artists like Danny Gregory and Felix Scheinberger.

In this relaxed and inspiring workshop at the Cornish Craft Barn, you’ll explore the art of ink and wash — combining simple line work with fluid watercolour to create expressive sketches full of life and personality.

Whether you’d love to document your daily life, sketch meals and moments out and about, or create a meaningful travel journal, this session will give you the confidence to start. We’ll focus on letting go of perfection, embracing spontaneity, and learning how to tell visual stories through quick, characterful sketches.

This is a welcoming, beginner-friendly workshop with gentle guidance throughout, designed to help you build confidence and enjoy the process as much as the outcome.All materials including brushes, paint and paper are included so please just bring yourself along and perhaps an apron or clothes you don’t mind getting messy.

✨ What you’ll learn:

How to sketch confidently in pen without fear

Adding loose watercolour washes for depth and atmosphere

Techniques for capturing everyday scenes quickly

How to develop your own journalling style

🎨 Perfect for:

Complete beginners

Anyone wanting to start a sketchbook or travel journal

Those looking to loosen up their drawing style

☕ The CCB experience

Enjoy a relaxed, sociable atmosphere in our beautiful barn setting, with the café on hand for coffee, cake, or lunch while you create.

Bag Club April - New Monthly Meet-up!
2026-04-28 10:00 - 15:00
New Monthly Meet-up!

Bag Club at The Cornish Craft Barn

£30.00 Includes cake from our cafe and tea/coffee and 10% discount in cafe

Calling all sewists, makers, and “I-need-more-pockets” enthusiasts! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or have never touched a sewing machine, we’re launching a brand new monthly Bag Club. This will run on the fourth Tuesday every month.

Every month, we’ll gather at the Barn to:

Work on Your Own Projects: Bring that half-finished tote or that favorite repair you’ve been meaning to get to.

The Group Project: We’ll sometimes also work together on a simple, fun bag project—perfect for learning new skills in a relaxed environment.

Talk Shop: Hardware, fabrics, patterns, and inspiration—all things bag-related!

Access our resources, patterns, industrial sewing machine, overlocker, rivet press etc to help your bag making get that professional edge.

On 28 April if you would like to take part we will be making a pocket tote bag, this is optional if you want to work on your own projects that’s fine too. The tote bag doesnt need any hardward but will need : Lining/Outer: 1m, Pockets: 0.7m Straps: 0.3m cotton fabric or straps or webbing, Interfacing: 1m of fusible medium-weight interfacing.

Impressionist Acrylics Techniques
2026-04-27 10:00 - 15:00
🎨 Impressionist Acrylic Painting Workshop

Step into the world of colour, light, and expressive brushwork in this relaxed and inspiring acrylic painting workshop at the Cornish Craft Barn.

Inspired by the Impressionists, you’ll explore how to capture atmosphere and movement using loose, confident brushstrokes and a vibrant colour palette. Rather than focusing on fine detail, this workshop is all about learning to see differently — simplifying shapes, layering colour, and building paintings that feel full of life.

Working with acrylic paints, you’ll be guided through techniques to help you loosen up your style, gain confidence with colour mixing, and create a finished piece inspired by landscapes, florals, or everyday scenes.

This is a welcoming, beginner-friendly session with gentle guidance throughout — perfect for anyone wanting to try painting, or for those looking to move away from tight, detailed work and towards a more expressive style.

✨ What you’ll learn:

How to paint with loose, expressive brushstrokes

Understanding light, colour, and atmosphere

Simple colour mixing for vibrant, harmonious palettes

Techniques for building a painting in layers

🎨 Perfect for:

Complete beginners

Those wanting to loosen up their painting style

Anyone who loves colour and expressive art

☕ The CCB experience

Enjoy a relaxed, sociable atmosphere in our beautiful barn setting, with the café on hand for coffee, cake, or lunch while you paint.

Macramé Tote or Wallhanging
2026-04-24 13:00 - 15:30 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Learn Macramé skills whilst personalising a tote bag or wall hanging.

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Expand your Macramé skills whilst personalising a tote bag or wall hangingWorkshop OverviewIn this workshop we will be learning a few Macramé knots to create a stylish boho fringe for adding to a Tote bag of your choice.There will be plenty of opportunity to style your bag just the way you want it – adding embellishment along the way.We have a choice of cotton tote bags available, but if you have one already at home that you would like to add your Macramé design to, please bring it along. The only requirement is that the bag is made from material such as cotton, canvas or denim.The Macramé fringe will be stitched onto the bag but is easily removed later if required.If you do not have a need for a new bag, you can instead add your fringe design to a wooden pole or hoop and create a stylish wall hanging.This relaxed and friendly workshop is perfect for those with a basic understanding of Macramé but is looking for their next textile art project.Under the guidance of Lucy, you’ll learn a few basic knots and techniques of Macramé and go home with a boho chic Macramé design.What’s included:Step-by-step tuition in a fun and welcoming environmentAll Macramé yarns, beads and accessories providedRefreshments from the Craft Barn Café included in the workshop10% discount off any cafe purchases on the day if you fancy staying for lunch after the workshop or grabbing breakfast before it!Your own unique handmade craft to take homeIf you catch the Macramé bug, you’ll also find a selection of other Macramé craft kits and tutorials available to purchase in the Craft Barn gift shop.Spaces are limited so book early to secure your place.Price £30About the tutorLucy from Hearts and Pearls is a self-taught Macramé artist based in Falmouth. Grown from a hobby, her business specialises in propagating rare trailing semi-succulent plants, including the popular String of Hearts and Pearls, and through this, she first explored making decorative plant hangers from Macramé yarn. Having experimented with various projects over the years, she now runs Macramé workshops in the local area. She designs tutorials for others to learn the basics of this historic art form, some of which are available to purchase in the Craft Barn gift shop.

Acrylics for Beginners - Bold, Fast & Loose!
2026-04-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Bold, fast and loose technique

We will spend a fun-filled half-day immersed in the world of acrylics for beginners, which will include impasto techniques. We will establish a base set of acrylic painting skills and then deconstruct and simplify objects and references, enabling us to capture them in acrylics using thickly laid passages of paint, either with a brush or a palette knife.

By the end of the morning, we will have developed confidence in using acrylics and also applying paint thickly to the canvas, incorporating some on-canvas mixing and blending, without creating a muddy texture. We’ll get a bit messy, have loads of fun, kickstart a new painting habit (and technique), and enjoy cake from the café! What could be better? No previous experience is necessary; a no-excuse price with materials provided!

The morning will be filled with fast-paced learning exercises and mini-tutorials to entertain and help you make significant strides in your confidence and control in this interesting and freeing technique.

Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas. (Wikipedia)

Bold, fast and loose technique

Bold, Fast & Loose Watercolour - Beginners £29 Half Day Workshop!
2026-04-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
We will spend a fun-filled half-day immersed in the world of bold, fast and loose watercolour, with a particular focus on wet-in-wet applications to create vibrant pieces that are pleasing to the eye and evoke a smile. By the end of the morning, we will have completed several mini-project exercises and created various pieces, varying in subject matter.

Abstract loose works

Vibrant art

Pleasing results quickly!

No previous experience is necessary; kick-start a new watercolour habit here. You will develop a watercolour confidence, which you can take away or top up on a follow-up workshop with us at the Cornish Craft Barn.

The morning will be filled with fast-paced learning exercises from the start, featuring mini-tutorials to engage and guide you forward at a steady pace, making significant strides in your watercolour confidence and control. By the end of the session, you will be in control of what happens on your pape

Stitch It Together: Learn to Sew – 6 session block
2026-04-20 10:00 - 13:00
Ready to unleash your creativity and learn a practical skill? Stitch It Together is a 6-week beginner’s sewing course designed to guide you through the essentials of sewing, one stitch at a time. Whether you’re looking to repair clothing, create your own wardrobe, or dive into the world of DIY projects, this course will give you the confidence and skills to start sewing.

By the end of this hands-on course, you’ll be equipped to tackle a variety of projects and sew with ease. Great British Sewing Bee here we come!

Details

The course starts on Monday April 20th and runs for 6 weeks. Starting at 10am and finishing at 1pm. Skips a week for May Bank Holiday and on the 18 May the time will be 1pm – 4pm

Course Overview

Stitch It Together is the perfect starting point for anyone who’s ever wanted to learn how to sew. Over six workshops, you’ll get hands-on experience with a variety of essential techniques, all taught in a supportive, fun, and beginner-friendly environment.

Who This Course is For

This course is designed for absolute beginners with little to no sewing experience. If you’re looking to build confidence with sewing, or just want to learn a new skill for fun or practicality, this course is for you!

By the End of the Course

You’ll walk away with a solid understanding of basic sewing techniques and a completed project that showcases your new skills. Each workshop will include a new skill, and a practical application of that to make something to go home with. We’ll be covering all the stitches on your machines, maintenance, patchwork basics, applique basics, fabric manipulation, fabric choices, equipment leaving you with the knowledge to continue with your new very addictive hobby!

£120.00 Includes refreshments and 10% café discount on all cafe purchases on the day

Kit List

Fabric: If you have some fabric already you wish to use please bring it with you. Approximately 8 fat quarters would be ideal.

Thread: 100% cotton thread in a neutral colour

Sewing Machine: If you have one you want to use please bring it, or we have Janome machines you can borrow.

Basic Sewing Kit: Scissors, Needles, Cotton thread, Pencil and notebook. Don’t rush out and buy these! We have them to borrow or for sale in our shop.

Wheal Friendly Stitch Club - 3rd Thursday Monthly
2026-04-16 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom

Wheal Rose Stitch Club - 2nd Tuesday Monthly
2026-04-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom

Tuesday Art Club — New Members Welcome
2026-04-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
2 Session Block (April) £36 (£18 per session) ~ Watercolour In The Style Of….

In response to popular demand and with Thursday morning sessions now over subscribed we have a new instance of the popular Creativity Unleashed Art Club. New monthly themes, always a variety of media from watercolour to acrylics to oils and everything in between used on a regular basis to create variety and stimulate inspiration.

Sessions includes 10% café and shop discount on the workshop days. These sessions are designed as an ongoing series to inspire and develop art skills in various media. You will engage in fun, creative, and practical weekly activities that utilise multiple media and unexpected materials. Your creativity will be unleashed! If you thought you were not creative or ‘arty’, unable to draw or produce pleasing artwork, these sessions are specifically for you. You will learn to draw, paint, and develop creative ideas, then visually bring them to life.

Throughout these sessions, you will learn how to use watercolours, acrylics, inks, printing, and much more. In sessions, we will navigate the journey to unlock our dormant or suppressed creativity. We will inspire you to work on mini-projects and actively encourage you to do so to unlock your creative potential as you develop your art skill set and ‘find your style’!

Student Work | Previous Sessions

Wheal Treasure Stitch Club - 1st Tuesday Mthly
2026-04-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Welcome to one of our many Cornish Craft Barn Stitch Groups. We run several regular groups that meet once a month. If you’re interested in joining one, please contact us or book in to attend if we have spaces available.

This is an all-day session where you can work on quilting projects on machines or by hand with other quilters who are looking to share ideas and experience and can provide guidance for each other – plus lots of lovely chat, cake and coffee! It is not a ‘tutored’ session but a room filled with abundant expertise from which to seek assistance. We can offer short demonstrations or mini projects from time to time if this is something the group decides they want!

The session runs from 10am – 4pm but feel free to attend as much of this as you can to fit in with your other commitments. Lunch can be bought from the cafe with a 10% discount. Plenty of parking outside and we can give you a hand to get your machines upstairs to the training room if needed.

We have several new Janome quilting sewing machines available to borrow for the day if you need one or find it easier than bringing one in from home. The cost is £4 per day. Please book ahead or let us know if you need one so we make sure we have enough available. We ask for payment quarterly in advance £15 per session, so £45 which covers three sessions for you. We close for August s

Triple Sling Bag Making Workshop
2026-04-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
A Cornish Craft Barn – Country Cow Designs Collaboration

We are delighted to be collaborating with Country Cow Designs for this exciting workshop. Join us for a creative and friendly workshop at the Cornish Craft Barn, where you’ll sew a delightful Triple Sling bag—a charming, beginner-friendly design that’s as practical as it is beautiful.

Botanical Easter Workshop
2026-03-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Join us for a relaxed and friendly morning learning how to create your own Botanical masterpiece!
You’ll be taught to decorate a wreath base with an abundance of fresh Cornish flowers and foliage from the garden. Your finished wreath can be used as a door decoration, a gift, a table centre for Easter, or made in memory of a loved one.
Come on your own, with a friend, or with your partner and enjoy a welcoming atmosphere with refreshments
All materials and equipment are provided, with step-by-step guidance, so no previous experience is needed. We’ll provide all tools and materials, along with a delicious cheeseboard and wine with non alcoholic option available
As a Cornish wreath maker, I take pride in crafting designs that celebrate the natural, wild charm of our beautiful local landscape. Each wreath and arrangement is thoughtfully made using fresh, locally grown or foraged flowers & foliage to ensure there is unique & sustainable content to every piece. My designs are inspired by the changing seasons, the Cornish hedgerows, woodland, coast paths and coves, aiming to bring the wild beauty of Cornwall into your home.
Angela, the Cornish Wreath Maker
£40.00 Includes cake from our cafe and tea/coffee
Extra Info: Step by step guidance with all materials and equipment provided. No previous crafting experience is needed. All the flowers, foliage and fruits are home grown and / or foraged personally by Angela. Refreshments provided as part of the workshop price. All necessary instruction is provided in our beautiful light and airy workshop space. Learn how to create this beautiful unique wreath in a single, satisfying session.

Cyanotype Printing
2026-03-30 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Cyanotype Printing – Stunning ‘Botanical Blue Prints’ on paper. Join us for a whole day of exploring cyanotype printing. Lisa will lead you through a magical and simple photographic process using ultraviolet light (sunlight or a light box) to develop stunning ‘blue prints’ on paper, ready to frame. Everything is provided, including foliage. Please bring an apron and any extra (non spikey!) plants you may like to use.

BOTANICAL PRINTMAKING – Botanical 'One of a kind' Monoprints
2026-03-26 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Playful Botanical Printmaking

The essence of this workshop is to focus on being free and expressive and having fun! Helping you to relax and free up your practice Lisa will be your guide to painting expressively by encouraging a playful approach using a variety techniques, mixed media and mark making tools.

Watercolour Essentials (Extended Edition) - £49 Day Workshop!
2026-03-25 10:00 - 15:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
From zero to watercolour hero! We will spend a fun-filled extended day immersed in the world of watercolour. By the end of the day, you will have developed complete confidence in watercolour, which you can take away and apply to ideas and projects you have ready or begin using for some journaling, home and abroad. No previous experience is necessary; kick-start a new watercolour habit here.

The morning will be filled with fast-paced learning exercises from the start, featuring mini-tutorials to engage and guide you forward at a steady pace, making significant strides in your watercolour confidence and control. In the afternoon we will take on landscape work, washes, skies and water. By the end of the session, you will be in control of what happens on your paper, not chance!

How to use your sewing machine
2026-03-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Let’s get sewing….one day workshop to give you confidence and unleash your creativity

Do you have a machine gathering dust? Lost under the stairs?

Want to sew but don’t know where to start? Put off by the thought of trying to use your machine?

Then this workshop is for you!!

We’ll have a fun and relaxed day exploring the functions and features of sewing machines and learn what they can do and start to learn how to make and create gifts and items using fabric and cotton.

Hydrangeas in a Vase – Collage Workshop
2026-03-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Join award-winning artist Susan Watt for a relaxed and inspiring workshop celebrating the beauty of hydrangeas in bloom. Using her distinctive technique of ‘painting with paper’, Susan will guide you through creating a vibrant still-life collage of hydrangeas arranged in a vase, using recycled magazines and PVA glue to achieve rich colour, depth, and texture.

In this hands-on session, you’ll explore shape, composition, colour harmony, and subtle tonal variation as you build your artwork petal by petal. Susan will share tips on translating soft floral forms into paper collage, helping you create a piece that has the look and feel of a painting.

Suitable for beginners and more experienced artists alike, this workshop offers a joyful, mindful way to experiment with colour and texture while creating a finished artwork to take home.

Wheal Friendly Stitch Club - 3rd Thursday Monthly
2026-03-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom

Cornish Coastal Scenes in Collage
2026-03-18 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Join award-winning artist Susan Watt for a vibrant and inspiring workshop where the dramatic beauty of the Cornish coast comes to life through paper! Susan has spent over a decade perfecting her unique technique, ‘painting with paper’, which utilises recycled magazines and PVA glue to create richly textured, painterly artworks. In this hands-on session, you’ll explore composition, colour, and texture as you build your dynamic seascape collage. Perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike, this workshop will leave you seeing paper in a whole new way. Let the colours of Cornwall inspire your creativity!

All materials are provided; however, bringing a few magazines would be appreciated, but not essential.

Bold, Fast & Loose Watercolour Workshop
2026-03-18 09:30 - 12:30 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
We will spend a fun-filled half-day immersed in the world of bold, fast and loose watercolour, with a particular focus on wet-in-wet applications to create vibrant pieces that are pleasing to the eye and evoke a smile. By the end of the afternoon, we will have completed several mini-project exercises and created various pieces, varying in subject matter.

Watercolour Ink & Wash Travel Journalling Half Day Workshop!
2026-03-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Learn to ink and wash like Danny Gregory and Felix Scheinburger. Capture your memories, whether daily journalling, meals and experiences out and about or a journal dedicated to your travel trips.

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NEW!! ART CLUB: Open to new members For March 2026
2026-03-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom

Wheal Rose Stitch Club (2nd Tuesday Mthly)
2026-03-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom

NEW!! ART CLUB: Open to new members For March 2026
2026-03-10 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
In response to popular demand and with Thursday morning sessions now over subscribed we have a new instance of the popular Creativity Unleashed Art Club. New monthly themes, always a variety of media from watercolour to acrylics to oils and everything in between used on a regular basis to create variety and stimulate inspiration. Sessions includes 10% café and shop discount on the workshop days.

These sessions are designed as an ongoing series to inspire and develop art skills in various media. You will engage in fun, creative, and practical weekly activities that utilise multiple media and unexpected materials. Your creativity will be unleashed!

If you thought you were not creative or ‘arty’, unable to draw or produce pleasing artwork, these sessions are specifically for you. You will learn to draw, paint, and develop creative ideas, then visually bring them to life. Throughout these sessions, you will learn how to use watercolours, acrylics, inks, printing, and much more.

In sessions, we will navigate the journey to unlock our dormant or suppressed creativity. We will inspire you to work on mini-projects and actively encourage you to do so to unlock your creative potential as you develop your art skill set and ‘find your style’!.

Art and creative projects are superb ways to relax and feel re-energised, motivated and empowered. Treat yourself to some ‘you’ time and use these sessions to set aside any ‘I can’t do th

Illustrate & Write A Children's Book (4 Half Day Sessions!)
2026-03-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Cornish Craft Barn, The Gwel, Kea Downs Road, Blackwater, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 8PA, United Kingdom
Apply good practice for a wide variety of picture book types

Develop a plot structure and storyboard it

Work on character development (written and design)

Look at writing techniques and styles

Create a book dummy for words and pictures

Develop your style and approach for page spreads

Explore illustrative techniques and unusual materials

In this workshop series, we will apply the principles of numerous well-known children’s authors and illustrators, review good practices from our carefully curated CCB library of children’s books, and unlock our creative illustrative skills through explorations with unexpected materials during each session. We will draw from our imaginations, capture the essence of a story, and produce our visuals around a well-crafted narrative, whether with rhyme, alliteration, playful repetition, or even wordless. Let the illustrations tell the story!

March 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th – 10am till 1pm includes 10% café and shop discount on the workshop days.

In this fun, hands-on-from-the-start workshop series, you will get to:

Apply good practice for a wide variety of picture book types

Develop a plot structure and storyboard it

Work on character development (written and design)

Look at writing techniques and styles

Create a book dummy for words and pictures

Develop your style and approach for page spreads

Explore illustrative techniques and unusual materials
