The Green Man in spring: folk art masterclass with Sue Prince
Saturday 29 April | 10am to 4pm
£125 per person, including garden entry and lunch
In this folk art masterclass led by Peak District Artisan and award-winning folk artist Sue Prince OBE, you will have the opportunity to create your own seasonal Green Man using foraged greenery and traditional egg tempera paints.
Based in our garden studio The Old Potting Shed, you will join a short foraging expedition around the Chatsworth Garden led by an expert Landscape facilitator from our learning team. Back inside you will create your own Green Man faces by laying foraged finds out on paper. The faces will be photographed and printed to be used as a guide for your art work.
Using traditional egg tempera paints we will then paint the Green Man faces on to thick handmade paper with deckled edges. Egg tempera paints are created using pure egg yolk, water and natural pigments.
All materials will be supplied, but if you have any favourite natural foraged finds, bring them along. This is folk art so no experience is necessary.
The session includes tea, coffee and a locally sourced graze box lunch from the Chatsworth Estate Farm shop. You will also have time to explore the garden at the end of the session.
Meet at 9.50am at the top garden gates (near the Stables) ready for a 10am start.
About Green Man folk art
The Green Man peers at us from church walls and ceilings all over Britain. Leaves and foliage frame his face, carved into corbels and gargoyles over the centuries by anonymous masons and carpenters. The Green Man is a legendary being primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring.
About the artist:
People and their places are a source of inspiration for Sue Prince. Her folk art images are created with traditional egg tempera paints, produced at her Peak District farm. They often celebrate life, rural or urban or mark events on our national life. Sue records those special places and times in a witty and moving way.
She discovered this form of folk art in Sweden in 2004 and has been instrumental in its revival, teaching it there every summer for 11 years. Folk art exposes us all as human beings who have changed little since the depictions in the Bayeux tapestry or the Egyptian tomb paintings.
Using materials that are as natural as possible, Sue strives for sustainability in her work with earth pigments and egg yolk, and loves the juxtaposition of such traditional techniques expressing modern and sometimes controversial issues.
Sue has a beautiful gallery at Beechenhill Farm; if she’s in it's open! You will find a full range of seasonal and unusual greeting cards, books, jigsaws, gifts, prints and original paintings. Call or message to arrange a visit.
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Looking for somewhere to stay?
We have a collection of hotels, inns, cottages and restaurants on and around the Chatsworth Estate that will make your visit even more special. Visit the Devonshire Hotels & Restaurants website to find out more and to book online.
