WEAVING with Ingrid Parker - 4th Wednesday each month
Ingrid is a very talented, experienced Austrian weaver with endless patience.

She taught for several years and hopes to encourage and inspire any would-be (or established) weavers with a new enthusiasm for this ancient and extremely satisfying art. Materials, frames and looms are provided. All sorts of techniques are covered.

SPINNING with Shan Palmes - 1st Wednesday each month
Shan has been teaching and lecturing for over 20 years and loves everything to do with the world of wool. The therapeutic value of spinning is enormous as well as being practical, creative and artistic.

Four times a year, she leads natural dye-ing days. Two full days of spinning tuition are usually sufficient to learn the basic skills and the workshops available at Bonehill help to consoldate all the information, and are flourishing with an enthusiastic group of regular spinners.

LANDSCAPE PAINTING with Phoebe des Clayes - 3rd Wednesday each month
Phoebe knows Dartmoor extremely well having lived and painted here for many years and has a knack of finding beautiful and special places to paint.

Phoebe will teach in watercolours, pastels, acrylic, gouache and oils. She advises, encourages and rescues and demonstrates on a particular subject, e.g. rocks, sky, water, gorse etc. Sketching in pencil, charcoal and ink are covered if required.
We try and paint outside most of the year (sometimes in the shelter of cars) but there are good studio facilities available and still life subjects can be set up.

BASKET MAKING with Sarah Pank - 4th Tuesday each month
Sarah is a professional basket maker, living on Dartmoor. She makes traditional and hedgerow baskets and widely exhibits her work. She covers the subjects of growing and harvesting willow as well as preparation and selection of materials.
The one day workshops are designed in blocks of three days (one a month) to give students an introduction to the basic techniquesof basket making. You will be able to make a round basket of your own design

SCULPTURE with Anne-Marie Moss - 3, or more, weekends a year
An exciting new course, sculpting from life using New Clay and progressing to other materials.

Complete beginners welcomed (and those more experienced of course). Anne-Marie has been teaching for several years and exhibites her beautiful sculpures in galleries around the country.

CREATIVE WRITING with Georgina Mackie - 3rd Thursday each month
Georgina is a published author who has been writing novels, on and off, for almost 30 years and has a great sense of humour. She believes creative writing is following a few basic rules and hopes to help people find their own style as they work. We also have the occasional poetry evenings.

LIVING WILLOW with Jude Cranmer - 2nd Tuesday each month
Jude is an experienced teacher for schools and groups and has a comprehensive knowledge about willow and maintenance of woodland.

She has been teaching at Bonehill for 4 years and we have arbours, hedges, benches, wigwams, sculpures (and more), flourishing here, waiting to inspire you to make your own.

PRAYER PAINTING with Pat Elms - 1st Tuesday each month
Starting with Scripture, prayer and a short meditation, all sorts of amazing creative ideas begin to flow. A variety of materials are used. It may be glass painting, or banner painting or stencils, etc.
Come and see for yourselves how enjoyable and inspiring these sessions can be.