workshops
Select your workshop from the list below and spend a relaxing but exciting day learning new skills and revisiting old ones. Paper and refreshments provided.
£85 for the day
10-3.30pm
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Treat your loved one to a day n the Sandra Orme Sky Studio
2 hour step by step demos or half day/full day workshops in pastel or charcoal for your art groups or society. Themes to suit your group and a range of topics available.
From £150 plus travel
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One-to-one or with friends- book your own personal art lessons in the studio. From £35 per hour.
Buy a voucher for £85 for friends and family to come along to a workshop of their choice. No expiry date! Can be used for any future session.
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Book me for your art organisation.
An Introduction to Pastels
one-day workshop
Saturday March 8th 2025
For those new to art, or just new to pastels, we will explore how I work with pastels and use three different types of pastel paper. This will allow you to experiment with layers and mark-making as well as applying and controlling colours.
£85 including materials and refreshments
Summer Sunset Session
one-day workshop
Saturday June 21st 2025
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Spend a summer day in the studio exploring creating s stunning sunset sky with dramatic colours. This workshop will also give you all the basic tools to go away and create future sunset skies you come across.
£85 including most materials and refreshments
Trees and Woods
two-day workshop
Friday & Saturday 9&10th May 2025
At The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Spend two days with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme exploring trees and woods. We will look at patterns and shapes created by tree trunks and branches and experiment with silhouettes and using negative space to develop these shapes. We will create beautiful and mysterious woodland images transformed with light and colour - evoking a walk through winter woods.
£175 for two day workshop. Book direct with The Ashmolean using the link below.
Explore using pastel to create a dramatic sunset over a lake or sea. We will look at how to work with reflections and managing and controlling our colours and mark making.
£85 including most material and
refreshments.
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Reflecting on Reflections
one-day workshop
Saturday September 13th 2025
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Where to stay
There are many lovely places to stay in beautiful Buxton...but you will be guaranteed a very warm welcome at my friend's award winning and luxurious B&B.
2 night stay minimum- but you'll find plenty to see and do in the heart of the Peak District..
