64 Educators providing Arts & Crafts courses in Newton Abbot

redrock youth centre

saxophone flute clarinet tuition

oak and smoke tannery

Oak and Smoke Tannery is dedicated to Natural Tanning and Traditional Leatherwork. Oak and Smoke Tannery is made up of Jane Robertson and Jessie Watson Brown. We are two individuals with a passion for the wildness in nature and the skills that enable us to live closely to the earth. Through this journey… we discovered tanning! The tanning processes we practise use only natural ingredients – locally harvested tree barks such as Oak and Willow, oils and Smoke. We tan and sell leather, rawhide and unique leather handcrafts. The Heritage Crafts association has categorised tanning as ‘critically endangered’ as a craft because there are so few people practising it and even less teaching it. We intend to demystify the art of tanning by teaching simple methods, with simple tools. This is how we were taught and how we still practise. We learned tanning in Washington State in America and more recently from traditional tanners in Scandinavia.  We love the discovery of learning how different skins and processes work, and seeing the alchemical change that they go through during the tanning process. When we first returned from America lots of people were asking us to teach them tanning so we set up our first hide camp. The first year was small with a group of friends, and it was a booming success. Since then its grown and grown every year and now we run numerous camps every year, as well as guest teaching on other courses and offering individual tuition. All this as well as of course tanning leather ourselves on Dartmoor and in Mid Wales. We would love to see tanning become normal in peoples homes, as it once would have been. Most of the UK's domestic animal skins get exported to other countries or tanned in chemically intensive commercial tanneries, and most wild animal skins are wasted - its heart breaking! We have very high standards when it comes to ethics and the environment [https://www.oakandsmoketannery.co.uk/ethics]. All our skins are by-products of farming and hunting, otherwise discarded.

max turning

south street collective

dartmoor creative woodturning

From my workshop within the Dartmoor National Park I create decorative, functional and architectural turned work. I have been a professional woodworker for over 50 years, 46 of them self-employed. I am on the Register of Professional Turners, who are supported by the Worshipful Company of Turners. I also offer tuition in my fully-equipped workshop to individuals and small groups, and give demonstrations at craft events and to woodturning clubs and interested groups. Combining uncomplicated, balanced form with natural features - as well as the effects of fungal and insect activity - I find that the most unlikely looking pieces of wood produce the most striking end results. My work essentially celebrates the imperfections of wood as features of a beautiful natural material, rather than as defects. The timber I use is sourced as locally as possible to my Dartmoor workshop. The majority of wood comes from trees that have fallen, been cut down due to damage or disease, or from licensed conservation pruning and felling. Any exotic species used will be either recycled or from sustainable FSC sources. I also take commissions for commemorative and presentation pieces, such as weddings, engagements, anniversaries, birthdays, and also funerary urns.

poppins pottery

Welcome to the website of Poppins Pottery We offer fun, relaxed, pottery painting, potters wheel experiences and clay hand building sessions from our little Garden Studio in Torquay, Devon. Enjoy a few hours prime time exploring the wonders of clay in our lovely creative environment, suitable for all ages and abilities.

shaka watersports

sounding bowls

Sounding Bowls by Tobias Kaye – Sounding Bowls in tune with the Heart

little acorn furniture

Working with the materials available in our surrounding countryside to produce unique and beautiful things and simultaneously provide value and management incentives to improve our precious local woodlands. Having graduated with an Honours Degree in Aerospace Engineering of all things Alasdair eventually found himself working in South London as an Elevator Engineer. This highly unsuitable lifestyle resulted in a three year VSO teaching placement in Ghana, where Alasdair found the inspiration he was looking for and returned to the UK to study for an MSc. in Environmental Forestry in Bangor, North Wales. After a brief stint working for the University, and determined never to work indoors again, Alasdair secured a Woodland Rangers post with the National Trust and spent the next ten years caring for and working with coastal native woodland and parkland in Gwynedd and Anglesey. During this time he discovered that engineering, teaching and a passion for woods and wood work were the ideal ingredients for his own venture. When the chance arose to move with his young family to South Devon, Little Acorn Furniture was born. In addition to furniture making and greenwood courses, Alasdair operates Little Acorn Forestry providing a range of forestry and conservation services from management planning to tree felling, planting and invasive species control. This often provides a sustainable source of local material for Little Acorn Furniture and the two elements provide an environmentally beneficial service quite literally from tree to table, or chair or whatever else it is you may require.