Workshops and Courses
Here are some examples of half or full day creative workshops available for community groups, creative professionals, private groups and corporate businesses. This list is by no means exhaustive as I have over 25 years of practical making experience… so if you have any particular ideas of what you’d like to do, I want to hear them! I am available to deliver one-off workshops, longer courses, open spaces, weekend retreats and more, with either individuals and groups, both online and in-person.
- Drawing, Painting and Collage
- Sculpture and Craft
- Digital Media
- Writing
- Creative Wellbeing
- Artistic Professional Development
- Art as Changemaking
- Presentation Specialisms
- General Creativity
- Other
- Drawing from Nature
- Outdoor Markmaking
- Creatively Collaborating with Nature
- Experimental Drawing
- Wonky Portraiture
- Exploring the Elements of Art
- Life Drawing
- Introduction to Cyanotypes
- Embrace Your Inner Surrealist!
- Paper Marbling
- Creative Collage
- Exploring Decoupage
- Painting with acrylics
- Mono, Lino, Intaglio and Gelli Printing
- Drawing Skills (6 week course)
- Introduction to PaperMaking
- Nettle Cordage
- Seed Bombs and Seed Art
- Sculpting with Dandelion Dough
- Making Charcoal
- Nature Looms
- Origami and Paper Crafts
- Seasonal Crafts (e.g. Pumpkin Carving, Wreaths, Cards)
- Exploring Clay
- Introduction to Wet Felting
- Sewing Skills
- Mask Making
- Exploring Costume and Set Design
- Puppet Making
- Model Making
- Introduction to Wood Whittling
- Various Woodland Crafts
- Various Beach Crafts
- Stop Animation
- Digital Storytelling
- Introduction to Video Editing
- Simple Graphic Designing using Canva
- Writing poetry
- Writing your first short story
- Responding to art with poetry
- Journalling
- Freewriting
- Zine making
- Writing for Blogs (getting online)
- (Fake) Kintsugi
- Make Worry Dolls
- Mindful Drawing
- Relaxing Crafts
- Spiritual Resilience
- Creating Talismans
- Making Dream-Catchers
- Tree of Life – Remembering Who You Are
- Environmentally sustainable best practice
- Accessibility and Inclusion
- Practice as Research
- Preparing for Professional Practice
- Understanding ‘Co-production’ / Making Work with Communities
- Delivering creative workshops
- Artist Mental Health and Resilience
- Create your own Access Rider
- Writing Artist Statements, Bios and CVs
- Eco-Artivism
- Art and Activism
- Signmaking for Protest
- Flag and Banner Making
- Regenerative Practice
- Any element of my artistic practice
- Art as a tool for climate action
- Geopoetics
- Ethical and Equitable Artmaking with the More-than-human
- Mental Health in Art
- Outdoor Creative Meditations
- Creative Walking Workshops
- Creative Connection to Landscapes
- How To Read Art (2 week course)
- Facilitation of general Open Space Workshop
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Exploring Permaculture Design
- What is Co-Production?
- Practical Coping Strategies for Wellbeing
- Climate Activism – Understanding Climate Change and What To Do Now
Schools and Colleges
- One-off or ongoing creative and contextual workshops with KS1 - KS5 pupils (see example offer above)
- Longer term projects as an artist-in-residence
- Working to or developing project briefs
- Creative Career Advice, Portfolio Review and Mentoring
- CPD for educators
- Cross-school / community project work
- Experienced with SEND and Alternative Schools
- Subject links: Art, Design Tech, Science, Geography, Citizenship and PSHE
- Curriculum links: Art and Design, Art History, Environment, Nature, Seasons, Life, Habitats / Ecosystems, Conservation, Plants / Horticulture, Eco-literacy, Sustainability, Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Politics, Mental Health / Disabilities, Art Careers
Further and Higher Education
- Guest Lectures
- Crit Support
- Undergraduate Module Delivery
- Mentoring
- One-off workshops or short courses (see example offer above)
- Long-term creative projects
- Creative Career Advice, Portfolio Review and Mentoring
- Working to or developing live project briefs
- Research-as-Practice / Supporting University Research
- Online or in-person delivery
- Practice specialisms: Drawing, Eco-art, Participatory / community work, creative accessibility/inclusion and environmental sustainability within creative practice
Galleries and Museums
- Exhibiting work
- Sales
- Artist Residencies
- Practice-based Research
- Accessible creative workshop and project delivery for diverse audiences (see example offer above)
- Talks, Panels and Events (specialist subjects include eco-arts, environmental sustainability in artistic practice, accessibility and community artworking)
- Community and participatory workshop and project management/delivery
- Supporting creative professional development programming (e.g. Mentoring, Masterclasses)
- Critical Friend regarding environmental sustainability and accessibility/inclusion
NHS, Local Authority, NPOs and VCSEs
- Creative workshops and activities within diverse communities (see example offer above)
- Ambitious participatory projects
- Artist Residencies
- Creative project management and delivery
- Mentoring
- Community-led exhibitions
Corporate
- Commissioning
- Creative Team Building
- Creative wellbeing sessions (see example offer above)
- Staff exhibitions or participatory projects
Private
- Commissioning
- Sales
- Critique
- Small Group Workshops (see example offer above)
- Tuition
- Mentoring
Further Information
Location
I am available for project work in Hull / East Yorkshire, where I am based, and I'm happy to travel nationally and internationally. I am also available for remote work anywhere in the world.
Assurances
- Recent DBS / Update Service
- Public Liability insurance – £10,000,000
- Products Liability insurance – £10,000,000
- Professional Indemnity insurance – £5,000,000
- Tax/UTR registered
- Safeguarding Trained
- First Aid trained
Fees
My typical rate is £345 per day, reflecting my broad and lengthy experience, unique skills and specialist knowledge as directed by the current Rates of Pay set out by Artists Union England. This is due to rise with inflation in 2025/26.
Artist Fees compensate the time and labour involved in research, development, preparation, delivery, administration and time spent commuting. Fees do not include the cost of materials, equipment rental costs, travel costs, publication costs, insurance or shipping, or any other cost associated with art production. There is a typical flat rate of £345 (as per Artist Union recommendations) for a half-day workshop, talk or presentation or other activity requiring prior preparation and administration, or £173 per half-day activity that requires zero preparation or administration (e.g. supporting another facilitator). Longer term or non-profit work may be negotiated, and sessional or day rates may be adjusted according to the nature of the work (£43-55ph). Additionally, in an effort to encourage common development projects and transcend social, cultural or economic barriers that would otherwise separate us, I am also open to bartering and alternative trading methods following negotiation.
Sales
For private, commercial or art collection sales, please contact Lauren directly.