Workshops
The Masterton Art Club offers regular workshops from local and visiting tutors with a wide range of artistic and creative skills. You do not have to be a member to attend a workshop. Please check in regularly to find a workshop that you just can't wait to join.
2025 Workshops - at Masterton Art Club, 12 Victoria Street, Masterton
Introduction to Sashiko
The Art of Japanese embroidery
Learn Sashiko with Textile Artist Anne Benson
Saturday 15 November 2025
10am - 1pm
Cost $60 per person
includes all materials
Tea/coffee and biscuits provided
You will begin by learning how to start and finish without knots, how to find your own Sashiko rhythm and make your own Sashiko palm thimble, a necessary tool when stitching Sashiko.
We will then go on to transfer circular and straight line designs to your cloth and learn the best way to stitch using the Sashiko method.
Anne has been stitching for as long as she can remember, she creates textile art, makes art quilts and sews many of her own clothes. She began her own Sashiko journey about 10 years ago learning from books and YouTube. But it wasn’t until she began learning from Sashiko artisan Atsushi Futatsuya that she really fell in love with this way of stitching.
Anne has delivered workshops in textile art techniques, Sashiko, Boro and visible mending, and has exhibited her work in the Wairarapa.
Past Workshops
Print Making
Tutorials
with Nick Brandon
Ever wanted to learn how to make a print or have some experience and want to learn more? Well here is an opportunity to take part in a structured three term course.
Tutored by Masterton artist Nick Brandon and held at the Masterton Art Club 2 hours per week tentatively on Fridays 10:00am - 12:00 noon.
If enough people would prefer a weekend then Sunday afternoons 1:00pm - 3:00pm is also a possibility.
Costs
Each 2 hour session is $10
Totalling $100 for a 10 week term
To book your place please contact Nick Brandon either by email nickbrandon75@gmail.com or by text/call to 021 974487.
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Term 1 Relief Methods 5 July - 6 Sept 2024
• General print theory - ink mixing, application use of the press
• Understanding positive and negative space
• Transparency and opacity
• Wood and Lino cut plate making
• Found materials
• Background printing
Term 2 Intaglio Methods 18 Oct - 20 Dec 2024
• Drypoint
• Mezzotint
• Carborundum
Term 3 Other Methods 7 Feb - 8 Apr 2025
• Mono prints
• Silk Aquatint
• Combining different techniques
• Colour reduction prints (Lino or wood)
Thanks to the generous support of Creative Communities, fees are set at a very reasonable $10 per 2 hour session - each term is 10 weeks long = $100.00. Fees are payable at the time of booking.
Materials will be at cost for paper and inks. The tutor gets a 20% discount at Gordon Harris which is passed on to the students. Depending on what methods are selected, materials may be up to another $5 - $10 per session.
Student numbers will be kept to a maximum of 7 to allow plenty of one to one tutor time.
Participants will also be very welcome to join the Masterton Art Club which holds an untutored print session every Friday 1:00pm - 4:00pm.
Past workshop - Printmaking with local artist and tutor Nick Brandon. Nick helps students navigate their way through the printmaking process and demonstrates wood cutting and lino cutting to produce prints.
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Students get to work from start to finish: from choosing their image, making the 'plate', inking the plate, working with paper and finally printing your plate through the etching press.
Past workshop - Watercolour class with local artist and tutor Elissa Smith. Elissa guides students through understanding the watercolour process to produce beautiful works of art.