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Festive Fun with Sharon Melehi
1-day demonstration with Sharon Melehi
3 December 2010 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£145 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
Watch and learn how to make dramatic Christmas decorations for the home, garlands for mantelpieces and table decorations with candles using unusual and seasonal ingredients.
Sharon Melehi has been at the forefront of the world of flowers for 25 years. An international floral lecturer, formerly trained with Lady Pulbrook at Pulbrook and Gould. Principal tutor at Kenneth Turner Flower School, London and Tokyo, a true floral artist.
Introduction to Opera
3 days (1 day a week) with Patrick Bade and Ross Alley
13, 20, 27 January 2011 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£375 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
A new course diverting from gardening and aimed at making opera more enjoyable by understanding the music and range of singing. The roles of singer and complexities of the music are revealed, and evening becomes an enthralling experience. The course will complement current productions in London and at country house opera venues.
Patrick Bade lectures at Christies, and he and Ross Alley will guide us through this absorbing and increasingly popular form of art.
Creative Garden Writing
2-day course with Pattie Barron
9, 10 February 2011 (10.00am - 3.30pm)
£325 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
Understanding garden writing and how journalism works. Bring a short piece for discussion, how to improve, develop a style and how to sell your work.
Pattie Barron is well known for her gardening pieces in the London Evening Standard, connecting with London’s passionate green fingered community.
Breath of Spring with Sharon Melehi
1-day workshop with Sharon Melehi
4 March 2011 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£145 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
While Winter still lingers outside you can capture the essence of Spring in this one-day workshop combining seasonal flowers, foliage and florists' cut flowers. From stylish classics to contemporary designs, learn different techniques and enjoy taking your own creation home.
Sharon Melehi has been at the forefront of the world of flowers for 25 years. An international floral lecturer, formerly trained with Lady Pulbrook at Pulbrook and Gould. Principal tutor at Kenneth Turner Flower School, London and Tokyo, a true floral artist.
Close-up Flower Photography
2-day workshop with Elizabeth Zeschin
12, 13 May 2011 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£320 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
This is a two-day workshop for beginner to intermediate students of photography. Elizabeth Zeschin will share her expertise with students in creating floral close-ups on location in the garden and in the studio. This course is designed for the individual interested either in personal, fine art or commercial applications to his or her photography. The techniques involved in creating beautiful yet simple photographic floral still life compositions will be explained.
Day One consists of initial classroom work. Students will explore and discuss different aesthetic possibilities in the area of macro flower photography. They will be encouraged to pre-visualise an image utilising either conventional or digital means. Various macro lenses and extension tubes will be discussed and utilised. An analysis of natural as well as flash lighting will be explored.
Day Two Participants will do practical work in a nearby garden, applying technical precepts to create and develop their own different photographic vision plus learning different approaches involved in solving them.
Editing and printing will be done in the classroom, and methods of displaying and preserving work will be addressed.
Each student will bring their own laptop, tripod, camera, memory card and memory card reader.
Class size is limited to 10 students.
Elizabeth Zeschin is highly soughtafter in London and New York for photographic commissions and shows.
Summer Party Flowers with Sharon Melehi
1-day workshop with Sharon Melehi
19 May 2011 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£145 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
From small intimate dinner parties to grand celebrations, this one-day workshop will help you entertain with a difference. Watch and learn how to create a stylish mood with colourful creative centrepieces, ideas for chairs and napkins, as well as large dramatic showstoppers, using fabulous flowers, fruits and foliages.
As with all floral workshops, all materials for the day will be provided but you need to bring your own flower scissors or secateurs, apron and gloves.
Sharon Melehi has been at the forefront of the world of flowers for 25 years. An international floral lecturer, formerly trained with Lady Pulbrook at Pulbrook and Gould. Principal tutor at Kenneth Turner Flower School, London and Tokyo, a true floral artist.
Garden and Landscape Photography in Hampshire
2-day workshop with Clive Nichols
21, 22 June 2011 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£385 inclusive of VAT and light lunch
This 2-day course will be held at the garden and home of Rosemary Alexander, which offers a wealth of plant and landscape subjects.
The first day will concentrate on garden plant portraits, and the second day on local woods and landscapes.
Depending on the weather, students should be prepared to shoot later into the evening when the light is better and the wind drops.
Students are asked to bring their own prints/digital files along for a critical assessment of their work.
The second day will begin with a fascinating short lecture on selling photographs - for magazines, newspapers, calendars, cards etc - who and how to approach and what they will pay.
Clive Nichols is one of the world’s most respected garden photographers, being awarded Garden Photographer of the Year several times. An author and illustrator of numerous books, his latest is New Shoots.
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