Saturday 11 July 2020, 11am-5pm, £195 (price includes materials, lunch and refreshments) Location: Minerva Workshop, Unit 2, Dove Centre, 109 Bartholomew Road, London, NW5 2BJ Hosted by Sarah Desmarais Sarah Desmarais is a textile designer maker and crafts researcher. She produces hand-printed textiles with the traditional materials of Japanese katazome or stencil dyeing - paper stencils and a rice paste resist that is washed out after dyeing to leave a white pattern on a c

From 9th to 22nd August I'll be teaching painting and drawing on the idyllic Greek island of Skyros. Full details can be found at: skyros.com

The Japanese Textiles and Craft Festival 2020 is part of the official Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019 - 2020 and features artists from Japan and the UK working in a range of Japanese textile and other media including Saori weaving, sakiori, shibori, boro and katazome. I'll be exhibiting katazome handprinted silk gauze panels inspired by drawings from the Jurassic Coast, and doing a couple of katazome demonstrations. There will be a variety of demonstrations and workshops, a