Events + Venue Workshops
STUDIO WORKSHOPS.
SUMMER HALF DAY WORKSHOPS ARE LIVE, A FEW SPACES LEFT
VENUE WORKSHOPS
Oxford Summer Art School
3-4 August 2026
2 Day Leather Journal with Marbled Notebooks. [SOLD OUT]
This 2 day immersive course is a great intricution to paper marbling. On day one, students will learn basic patterns, leading up to a complex pattern. They will create their notebook covers, journal liner and marble a pencil and a wooden bead to decorate their wrap journal.
On day two students will wax their papers and line their journals, before creating stitched notebooks and a wrap journal. This offers a introduction to simple bookbinding and basic leatherwork, using hand tools to cut, punch holes and rivet, as well heat emboss or stamp initials on their journal.
Oxford Summer Art School
5 August 2026
1 Day Acrylic marbling on paper and concertina folded bookmaking [SOLD OUT]
A lovely introduction to paper marbling. Students will spend the morning creating marbled heritage patterns, layering up patterns and understanding best papers and paints to use. After lunch we will create a beautiful concertina folded book.
The Creative Dimensions Trust
11-13 August 2026
Educational free workshop on marbling, bookbinding and leatherwork for teenagers aged 14-19 years at Cockpit Arts, Deptford.
More information and to apply here
Application deadline 9 August 2026
UPCOMING EVENTS.
Open dates and times
Saturday 12 September 2026 - closed for workshop
Sunday 13 September 2026 11-4
Monday 14 September 2026 - closed all day
Tuesday 15 September 2026 11-4
Wednesday 16 September 2026 11-4
Thursday 17 September 2026 11-4
Friday 18 September 2026 - closed for workshop
Saturday 19 September 2026 11-4
Sunday 20 September 2026 - closed all day
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Festival of Crafts, Farnham Maltings
Saturday 10 October 2026
Workshops
Suminagashi Ink Marbling on Paper and Silk (Scarf): 10.30am
Suminagashi Ink Marbling and Stab Bound Bookbinding: 2pm
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Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Manchester
16-18 October 2026 (Preview Thursday 16 October 6-9pm)
Buy your tickets here
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FIND A MAKER Christmas Exhibition at MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey
7 November 2026 - 16 January 2027
More information here
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Atelier Gallery, Brighton
14 November 2026
Suminagashi Ink Marbling Workshops
More information coming soon.
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WONDERWORKS, Chagford
5-6 December 2026
Must visit - a beautiful Christmas event on the edge of Dartmoor in beautiful Chagford. Held annually in the village hall, with over 50 quality makers and a superb cafe and charity auction.
More information coming soon.
PAST NEWS / EVENTS / WORKSHOPS
CRAFT Festival, Bovey Tracey
12-14 June 2026
CRAFT Festival, Bovey Tracey
12-14 June 2026
Curated Devon Artist Network stand MM33
Taster workshops:
Introduction to leatherwork, create a marbled key ring
Introduction to ink marbling on paper and textiles, create a marbled silk scarf
NATIONAL TRUST
Heritage and Rural Skills Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire
22 May 2026
1 Day Suminagashi Ink Marbling on Paper and Textiles Course
NATIONAL TRUST
Heritage and Rural Skills Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire
23-24 May 2026
2 Day European Marbling and Leatherwork Course
MADE Winchester, Winchester Cathedral
7-8 May 2026
Suminagashi Ink Marbling on Paper and Japanese Stab Bound Bookbinding
Suminagashi Ink Marbling on Paper and Textiles, create a patterned silk scarf
JOY! Christmas Festive Shop, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
25 October 2025 - 3 January 2026
Exhibiting marbling on textiles and paper for the home.
WONDERWORKS, Chagford
6-7 December 2025![]()
CRUX, Rattery
28 - 30 November 2025
FIND A MAKER Week
24-28 November 2025
Festival of Crafts, Farnham Maltings
11-12 October 2025
Displaying the diversity of marbling on paper, textiles and wood.
Workshop Sunday 12 October 2025
MAKE Southwest
Workshop 03 October 2025
Marble a ceramic bauble, create tableBBC Devon Spotlight
24 September 2025
During Devon Open Studios, Devon Artist Network, coordinated a day's filming in my studio with TV presenter and journalist Emma Ruminski from BBC Spotlight.
We spent the day talking about endangered heritage crafts, the history of marbling, my sustainable approach to my materials and the help I have received from a number of organisations since turning professional in 2021 and launching my brand ROCWORX in 2022.
Loved that I could demonstrate how I deconstruct a ballet slipper which are kindly donated by The Royal Ballet and Opera. Proceeds from sales go to Trussell Trust food bank charity. I also demonstrated some basic marbling patterns on to some leather. Emma even made her own Suminagashi ink marbled pattern on paper to take home.
Devon Open Studios
9-21 September 2025
Devon Artist Network's annual open studios. A chance to meet the maker or artist and buy directly from their studio. Demonstrations and workshops for both Suminagashi ink marbling, European heritage pattern marbling and bookbinding.
Craft Festival, Wales
5-7 September 2025
Demonstrations held in beautiful Cardigan Castle, showcasing the diversity of marbling on paper, textiles and wood.
Workshop to ink marble and create a Japanese stab bound book.
The Creative Dimensions Trust Charity, Cockpits Arts, Deptford
13-15 August 2025
Tutoring a group of 14-19 year olds from underprivileged backgrounds, living in London. Heritage crafts of ink and acrylic marbling and simple bookbinding, lantern making and marbled cork key fob making.
Oxford Summer School of Art
7-9 August 2025
Suminagashi, Turkish Ebru and European marbling, creating books and a marbled silk scarf
Craft Festival, Bovey Tracey
Demonstration of Endangered Heritage Craft of Suminagashi Ink Marbling and Ink Marbling Paper and Leatherwork Workshops.
Delamore Arts, Cornworthy
Artizan Gallery Makers Takeover The Stables at Delamore
9-11 May 2025
MAKE Southwest Workshop
02 May 2025
Ink marbling paper and textiles workshop. Create a marbled silk scarf
Native Makers, Plymouth,
Craft Festival, Cheltenham
Demonstration of Endangered Heritage Craft of Suminagashi Ink Marbling
SBS WINNER EVENT
Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday Awards Ceremony, ICC Birmingham
West Dean College, Chichester
Green Maker Initiative Seconds Sale
West Dean College, Chichester
WONDERWORKS Contemporary Craft Fair, Chagford, Devon
CRUX, Rattery, Devon
22 - 24 November 202410am - 4pmGMI Sustainability Tutors in Schools, SDCC, Ashburton, Devon
YOUNG GMI EXHIBITION MAKE Southwest 12-23 November 2024Green Maker Initiative members worked with local students to create sustainable art. Students created Japanese stitch bound books using sustainable tea bag paper.
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Created Festival, Appledore, N Devon
New event for South West for Contemporary and Heritage Craft Makers.
Chowa Suminagashi Double Overlay Ink Marbled Silk Kimono & Obi. John Ruskin Studio, Brantwood Museum. Summer 2024
Artist Residency: Endangered Heritage Craft Hero, Weald & Downland Living Museum
Craftworks, Shoreditch Town Hall, London Craft Week
13 January 2024
Craftfestival workshops for leather making, a chunky key ring, or a simple, envelope style leather clutch.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Blue Patch Sustainable Artists Exhibition for Dulwich Open Studios
MAKE Southwest
Under the Tree
25 November 2022 - 28 January 2023
South Hams Arts Forum
Arts Trail, Venue 2
15 - 30 October 2022
SHPOP!
Studio Nine, Totnes
17-22 October 2022
A not-for-profit artist collective of 14 local South Hams artists, making art accessible on the high street, offering a mix of hand craft, jewellery, clothing and art.
South Hams Arts Forum
Contemporary Passions
5 - 17 July 2022
Craftfestival, Bovey Tracey
16th - 19th June 2022
Melville Building, Royal William Yard
7th May 2022
ONWARD
14 April - 30 June 2022
Studio 9 Pop Up, Totnes
Sigrid Verschraeghen
18th - 30th April 2022
Just a Card + Handmade Hour
Visibility Fair
23rd- 27th March 2022
The Great Charity Pottery and Print Fair
5-6 March 2022
A collaborative partnership between Manchester Art Gallery and Blue Patch, a national social enterprise, which enabled British sustainable small brands to sell products through the gallery's Happy Planet Eco-Store.
Modbury Spring Fair
22 - 23 May 2021
