Cressing Temple Barns: Sketch and Scribe Workshop
Join the Essex Gardens Trust for a creative day sketching and writing in the stunningly reconstructed Tudor walled garden at Cressing Temple Barns.
Join this relaxing and friendly creative workshop is designed to help you develop your confidence in drawing and writing outdoors whilst mindfully engaging with one of the most treasured green spaces in Essex.
Suitable for complete beginners or the more experienced, Jane and Siobhan will help you to take visual and written inspiration from the colours, sounds and smells of the Tudor garden as it would have been in the 16th century.
They will help you to respond to the man made and natural structures found within the garden through drawing and prose.
The ticket includes individual tuition from tutors Jane Frederick and Siobhan Pierce and all materials.
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