Previous Workshops

In this workshop students learned to draw architectural elements including decorative corbels, horseshoes arches and ionic capitals. They used traditional tools including compass and straight edge, technical drawings were taught stage by stage.

Two lucky students had the opportunity to learn the art of Architectural modelling in an exciting and creative environment, with uninterrupted guidance from one of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ senior in-house model makers.

In this unique one day course, students learned the basics of the ancient craft, bookbinding. Students were given the opportunity to develop skills that have been employed in making books for hundreds of years, using materials from a beautiful selection of book cloth and decorative papers to create their own bespoke cover for a book.

In this exciting and immersive course, students had the unique opportunity to unleash their emerging creativity by experiencing at first hand, the art of contour garment creation. Participants were encouraged to consider prototype progression, driven by their personal design and conceptual thoughts, which culminated in final pieces utilising a variance of mediums.

This workshop ran on three Saturdays: 14^th March, 28^th March and 11^th April. Four students joined Cox London for a three‑Saturday programme which offered rare access to Cox London’s Fabrication and Patination workshops, where their expert makers create pieces for some of the world’s most discerning clients and interiors. Working directly alongside their artisans, they learnt foundational metalworking techniques, including welding, soldering and forming, using the processes and tools employed in our studio.

Working with precious metal is an exciting process, and in this course students had the opportunity to learn about the craft of silver jewellery making with jeweller Paul Ravn.

Students were introduced to the hand tools and techniques for working stone in this five-week introductory course to stone carving for beginners.