Contemporary Art & Craft Courses
What We Offer
Stanwick Lakes offers a wide variety of contemporary art and craft courses available throughout the year. Whether you want to learn a new skill or you are a budding artist, we have something from you. So why not come and join us, set in our stunning nature reserve you are sure to be inspired.
Please note by taking part in one of our courses you will also be supporting Rockingham Forest Trust to protect over 750 acres of nature reserve and countryside. As a social enterprise we promise to reinvest our profits in preserving both our natural and cultural landscape for everyone.
Click on your preferred subject below for full information, available courses and dates.
Craft Café
Our weekly Craft Café is a self-led, drop-in session and a great way for adults to try a new craft and to meet other crafters. The Café usually takes place on Mondays and Wednesdays (but not in the school holidays) between 10.00am and 12.00pm in the visitor centre. These sessions are free, everyone brings their own projects in with them and this collaborative and friendly group just spend time together chatting and exchanging thoughts on crafting projects. Standard car parking charges apply for this group.
Our Tutor Biographies:
Louise Berrill
Paul Berryman
Judith Allnatt
Judith Allnatt is a fiction writer, poet and experienced tutor. Her novels have been featured as a Radio 5 Book of the Month and shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award and the Portico Prize for Literature. Her short fiction and poetry has been listed for many awards including the Commonwealth Short Story Award, Bridport Prize, Radio 4 Showcase and the National Poetry Competition. She has worked widely as a Writer in Residence and has most recently served as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. www.judithallnatt.com
Pauline Procter
Once she left full-time employment she began teaching crafts, she also went to several different ‘Art Tutors’ to improve her own drawing skills and confidence. She has taught a whole variety of crafts including crochet, cross-stitch, button art and textile art.
Since the pandemic, she has continued to crochet for family and friends and has become very interested in textile art – mainly as gifts but she also works on commissions.