Weekend Workshop // November 1st & 2nd // 10am-4pm // Cost: £235 // Places Available: 8 // Instructor: Siobhan McLaughlin & Cassandra Belanger
Join artist Siobhan McLaughlin and zero-waste specialist Cassandra Belanger to expand your creativity, learning both sewing and painting techniques to create a unique artwork.
About this course
Embrace the exciting, experimental process of working with remnant fabrics and earth pigments to create a beautiful hanging painting. Paint made from earth pigments is layered upon your own unique canvas, patchworked together using remnant fabrics.
You are encouraged to bring memories of your favourite landscape experiences with you, as we develop continuous line drawings to inform the composition of your painting.
Once the sewn textile base is sealed with primer, you will learn how Siobhan gathers earth and rocks to create paint, mixing some of these earth samples with acrylic paint to create your landscape painting.
In this course you’ll learn how to create sustainability focused artwork that combines sewn textiles with earth pigment and acrylic painting. You will develop skills in simple sewing techniques, canvas priming, earth pigment grinding and landscape painting.
Through this course, you will gain the tools and confidence to enhance your home by creating a unique artwork.
Skill Level & Sewing Machines
This is a Pure Beginner level course, which means it's suitable for absolute beginners. No painting or artistic experience necessary, we will access your inner artist on the day!
The setting for this course is the relaxing, social atmosphere of The Stitchery Studio, which comes fully equipped with a sewing machine (Janome 230DC) for each student (you are welcome to bring your own if you like!).
Outcomes
An A3 painted wall hanging, finished with a simple wooden hanging system
Ideas of zero waste design and re-use of remnant materials
How to create abstract landscapes from your favourite memories of a place
How to grind earth pigment to make paint
Use of earth pigment and acrylic paints to create a landscape painting
You Will Need to Bring
A photograph of your favourite landscape memory for your painting
Wear clothing and/or an apron that you don’t mind getting marked with paint
Optional: Scraps of fabric to work with
Booking Your Place
To book your place on this course, please use our online booking system below. You can pay a deposit or, if you prefer, pay the full course amount. Please familiarise yourself with our Terms & Conditions before making your booking.
You can pay by PayPal or any major debit/credit card. NOTE: You do not need a PayPal account to make a booking. Simply click on the link which says "pay with a debit or credit card". It looks like this.
More Info:
During class tea and coffee will be available.
All of our classes are suitable for over 18s, younger crafters may be accommodated if accompanied by a participating adult but please contact us before booking
If the workshop you were looking at is fully booked drop us an email and we’ll add you to the waiting list.
If you need to cancel, we need at least two weeks notice. Please read our cancellation policy before booking.
About your tutors
Siobhan McLaughlin
Siobhan McLaughlin
Siobhan McLaughlin is an artist and freelance curator based in Glasgow. Combining experiences of walking with material exploration, her art practice utilises weaving, printmaking, painting and installation to explore themes of place, memory and ecology. Siobhan graduated in 2019 with First Class MA Hons in Fine Art at Edinburgh University. Since then she has received the SSA Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award, Visual Art Scotland Cornwall Exchange Residency, RSA Residencies for Scotland award, and Stephen Palmer Travel Award to Orkney.
Recent selected exhibitions include The Land Will Call You Home, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall (2025); Art in a Time of Urgency, Grizedale Forest (2025); Pilgrimages, Hweg, Penzance (Solo, 2024); Elemental, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2023); HERE Between you and the World, POP Griffiths Gallery, Brisbane (2022) and the Gilchrist-Fisher Award, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London (2022).
Cassandra Belanger
Cassandra Belanger
Cassandra has 14 years of experience hosting workshops in sustainable design and sewing. Her work is an invitation to a more sustainable future and education is at the centre of her creative practice. She is the founder of The Stitchery Studio , is co-founder and Director of the ZWDC and a founding member of Sustainable Fashion Scotland. She is the resident sewing instructor at the Central Scottish School of Craft and a Fashion and Textile Lecturer at Glasgow West College. Her design and teaching practice challenges makers, designers and educators to think through the social and environmental impacts of their practice, exploring issues such as zero waste, intersectionality, transparency, colour therapy, feminism, sizeism, and body image. Cassandra is committed to decolonising her teaching practice.
Any Questions?
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The Stitchery operates under a business model of full transparency. If you have any questions about how we cost our courses and what the breakdown of costs is, please feel free to get in touch for more information.
Cancellation & Course Fees Refund
Because of the popularity of our courses and the limited number of spaces available, we've now introduced a Cancellation & Refund Policy. If you cancel your booking 14 or more full days before the start date of your course or workshop, you will be refunded the balance of your fees. This is equivalent to your full course fees minus your non-refundable deposit.
If you decide to cancel your place in less than 14 days before the course start date or during the course, a refund is not guaranteed. In this situation we shall review the circumstances of the cancellation before deciding on an appropriate solution.
If for any reason you change your mind and need to cancel your booking, please email us (info@thestitcherystudio@gmail.com) immediately so that we can release your place to someone on the waiting list.