Sussex Prairie Garden is open until 13th October 2024. Our opening days and hours are wednesday to sunday . 1pm until 5pm . Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays . Dogs are welcome.

Our next super Event will be our Beautiful and Useful Craft Fair this coming weekend 14th and 15th September - 11am until 5pm - expect over 30 exhibitors all set in a glorious garden setting . Delicious refreshments , live music ,art exhibition , plant sale and of course homemade cake. Dogs very welcome !

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Events & Courses

Splashy and free: Wake up your watercolours with Seana Mallen

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Friday 1st July 2022 | 10:00am - 2:00pm

Splashy and free: Wake up your watercolours with Seana Mallen

Splashy and free: Wake up your watercolours!

July 1, 2021

10am-2pm

£55

Watercolour is a magic  potion…

Go with the flow and let it work its wonders!

In this one day workshop we’ll  experiment with many  nontraditional materials, barely  picking up a brush, and responding to the garden with gusto.

If this mercurial medium has discouraged you in the past, please give it another chance . Giving you feeling experimental tips and tricks of the trade , you’ll  be amazed by what you can create..

And if you are new to watercolour, this is a great place to start a life long love affair.

If you’re interested, please contact Seana at seanamercedes@gmail.com
Materials list:
A set of watercolours (pans are preferable to tubes)
An A4 pad of  watercolour paper – 140lb (300gm) or heavier, “Cold-pressed” paper.
A round point medium size brush (number 7,8,9 or 10)
pencil, rubber, small scissors, a permanent pen like a sharpie.
Optional: oil pastels, small sketchbook,natural sponges, white gouache, watercolour pencils, watersoluble graphite pencils. Don’t go out shopping for any of this if you don’t have it handy.
I’m going to be introducing some wonderfully bright and very inexpensive paints called Anilinky, and you can buy these from me for £3 if you like them. ( and if you don’t have any watercolors, don’t worry. You can just use these.)
Weather permitting, we will be working out in the garden quite a bit, and a light folding chair and water container would be handy too.
Try to keep your materials small and easy to carry.
I have loads of experimental and exciting techniques to share with you, and please do let me know if there is anything special that you would like to work on.

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seana mercedes mallen

 

www.seanamallen.com 


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      Fraser BishopFraser Bishop
      10:50 11 Jul 22
      Wonderful garden well worth a visit. Great variety of plants showing so many ways of portraying a garden layout. Must comment on the great tea and cakes selection, our dog loved the doggy ice cream!
      Joan DaniellJoan Daniell
      15:13 06 Jul 22
      Beautifully planted area, in which you are encouraged to walk along paths between the plants so can be completely surrounded by foliage - a lovely effect.
      Peter WardPeter Ward
      08:40 28 Jun 22
      Beautiful garden, very relaxing, and bigger than you might think. Cafe is nice too
      Mike CleggMike Clegg
      16:07 08 Jun 22
      Tea room not brilliant nice cake but coffee in paper cup. No other options other then tea coffee and cake. Opening times short 1 to 5 but gardens beautiful
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