Collection: Studio Workshops

LEARN HERITAGE PATTERN MARBLING + LEATHERWORK

If you love colour and pattern, then you will love marbling. My workshops offer a safe space to play with paint or ink and have fun being creative. Marbling is mindful, where students use breath work and simple tools to create a surface pattern. The mesmerising pattern is created on water, before being transferred to paper, or textiles.

To keep up to date with my news and workshop dates, you can subscribe to my monthly newsletter here.

You can find all my upcoming external venue workshops being held in local galleries and in museums on my News + Events page.

I am also a tutor for West Dean College, which offers residential short courses. For more information, click here

NEW HOME STUDIO

My new studio here in South Devon, will be open for workshops this Summer 2025 term. I will be able to offer a dedicated space to run marbling workshops for small focussed class sizes of 4 people. Students will also be able to learning simple bookmaking, sewing and lampshade making.

I am also offering a smaller class for 2 people for my leatherwork workshops.

Dates will be announced in my newsletters, on my News + Events and on social media. As a sustainable artist, I limit printing materials, with all course materials emailed after the event in a digital format, so always suggest bringing a notebook.

My Marbling Kits contain a comprehensive written guide and all the equipment you need to successfully marble at home. We use the same tools in the kits as we use in the marbling workshops.

Get in touch if you are a community group, as I offer a discounted price for large groups. Contact me here

CANCELLATION POLICY

Courses are non-refundable once a booking is made.

ROCWORX® reserves the right to cancel courses. If this occurs, you will be offered an alternative course date, or a full refund of your course fees.

COPYRIGHT POLICY

Everyone is welcome to attend my workshops, including other artists. By booking a marbling (Suminagashi or European) workshop, you confirm you will not use my class format, guidance materials on the course and in my marbling kits, for commercial purposes, to use and run your own classes or make similar or the same products.

As a sustainable artist I only provide digital course materials, emailed after a workshop. These are copyright protected.

I also offer a comprehensive written guide book in my Marbling Kits

All copyright, design rights and intellectual property rights existing in my designs and products, in the images, texts and design of my website/marketing material are and will remain the property of ROCWORX For Best For Everyday® I will treat any infringement of these rights seriously.

Introduction to Suminagashi Ink Marbling + Japanese Stab-Bound Bookmaking 13 September 2025

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Introduction to Suminagashi Ink Marbling + Japanese Stab-Bound Bookmaking 19 September 2025

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