An event spread out in Marquees in Sussex Prairie Garden. Gorgeous clothes in cottons and vintage sari silk,semi precious designer jewellery,scarves,home furnishings and gifts – all ethically traded from India.
Coro Nuovo Voices will perform in the garden with their accompanist Andrew Storey, The repertoire will be largely solo songs from the shows, opera numbers and so on. There may be some duets and trios also. Perfect for a summer afternoon.
Fun, friendship and four part harmony. Coastline Harmony is a women’s a capella group who perform in Sussex and beyond from music festivals to charity shows.
Music Bus at Sussex Prairies. Singing, percussion instruments, dancing, action songs, puppets, parachute fun, and much more. For 0 – 6 years. Grandparents welcome!
Music Bus at Sussex Prairies. Singing, percussion instruments, dancing, action songs, puppets, parachute fun, and much more. For 0 – 6 years. Grandparents welcome!
It’s the plant fair of the year . Expect amazing plant specialist nurseries to wow you with their plants curated by the dynamic Plant Fairs Roadshow .
Basketweaving is an ancient craft that incorporates many materials and weaving styles. It is a calming, social and meditative process. This workshop will give you an introduction into the coiled technique
This course is for anyone who wants to free up and explore watercolours in their practise. You will be shown and guided through a variety of techniques used in watercolour that are traditional and introduced to ways to connect with the environment around us.
We will be looking at the art of repeat pattern and how to plan lino motifs which can be printed into extensive sheets.
We are delighted to be opening for the National garden Scheme gardens open for charity again.
Join artist, author and tutor Anne Kelly for a new masterclass designed especially for Sussex Prairies Garden. You will have the option of making a small wall hanging or a folding book form in the two-day workshop.
We are excited to bring you further, mindful and creative botanical workshops with a twist! Combining natural materials with carefully selected plants to produce beautiful art pieces for you to enjoy or gift to others!
See and buy from some of Britain’s best designer-makers at this carefully curated boutique fair over this weekend . Work on offer includes an exciting, inspiring mix of ceramics, wood, textiles, metalwork and more. Delicious refreshments will also be available.All set in a beautiful Prairie Garden .Music will be there to enjoy from the Brass Fusion Quintet On Sunday 18th September .Not everyone may have card payment facilities so do please bring a mixture of cash or card options to pay for your purchases.
copyright Marianne Majerus
Come and be inspired by the beautiful expanses of grasses and colourful flowers at Sussex Prairie Gardens. With illustrated talks and planting exercises, Juliet will explain how to design similar schemes for your own garden.
Join Renee, Lorraine and Debbie in making a beautiful seasonal wreath. We use Willow coppiced locally to weave your wreath base and you will then learn various techniques to dress your wreath with dried grasses and seed heads foraged from Sussex Prairies plus dried flowers and foliage using colours to match the season.
Join Lorraine and Debbie for a half-day or full-day, outdoor workshop and learn to weave with Willow to create an art piece, a Sculpture you can be proud of!
Heading towards the Autumn Equinox and days are drawing in - time to boost our immune system and get mixing! Natural herbal remedies in the mix now to beat the winter blues, and to keep us happy and healthy!
Join Lorraine and Debbie for a half-day or full-day, outdoor workshop and learn to weave with Willow to create an art piece, a Sculpture you can be proud off!
The ultimate eco-friendly project, you will certainly be hooked making these fun and funky bags knitted with plastic carrier bags.
Using materials from the garden or your own ideas, you will create designs on printing plates, experiment with colour, stencils and texture, and use a printing press to imprint your images onto paper
Join Renee, Lorraine and Debbie in making a beautiful seasonal wreath. We use Willow coppiced locally to weave your wreath base and you will then learn various techniques to dress your wreath with dried grasses and seed heads foraged from Sussex Prairies plus dried flowers and foliage using colours to match the season.
Suitable for complete beginners, this workshop explores two projects using natural English willow. In the morning you’ll learn to weave a simple woven platter, and a bird feeder, using two traditional weaves, then add a track border and a handle to your work
We will experience the chaotic joys of gelliprinting to produce layered, patterned and textured backgrounds. These numerous prints which are made using layers of acrylic paints will explore the harmonious and vibrant colours and textures of the garden
We will start by creating a zine sketchbook as a starter to explore the media for the day from a single sheet of paper. We will then explore architectural structures and buildings to create a large mixed media piece using inks and fine layers of collage as a background. Textures and markmaking will be built up with sponging, brush and card to produce layered, patterned and textured surfaces. Frottage and texture collection from the garden will fuel our mixed media approach.
Join Lorraine and Paul for our Mini-Wattle Hurdle Workshop and learn the traditional weaving technique and skills used to create hurdles of all sizes!
This course is open to anyone who wants to learn more about soft pastels, and find expressive ways to work with them. We will explore soft pastel techniques, and use experimental ways to develop a personal and creative response to the garden.
Copyright Clive Boursnell
Photographing the Bigger Picture of the Garden
Join Hilary Phillips of Moth Studio Textiles in a relaxing workshop of Creative transfer printing, using foliage & natural forms.
Paul & Pauline McBride,
Sussex Prairie Garden
Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road (B2116),
near Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9AT
