Coming in 2023

We are so excited that Mandy Pattullo will be tutoring a unique creative retreat at Court House Farm from the 25th to the 30th of June 2023!

At the height of the summer come and celebrate the birds, the bees and those jugs of flowers that adorn our tables when the garden and the floral landscape is at its lushest. Join Mandy Patullo for this lovely five day retreat.

What’s Included

• Accommodation in a stunning medieval manor (1300sAD) or adjoining Tudor Manor house (1500sAD) the opportunity to stay in a beautifully renovated country house, steeped in history

• Fully catered, chef prepared meals: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner with selected wines

• Daily guided mindfulness sessions (optional)

• Inspiring and engaging talks from History of Art professional

• Flower Picking and Arranging in our beautiful flower garden

• Fulfilling conversation with likeminded individuals

• A visit to a nearby cultural market/Brocante to discover textiles and treasure to buy, as well as Brunels suspension bridge, and / or the nearby Clevedon Pier- the prettiest in England!

• Time to walk to the nearby estuary to see the beautiful sunsets.

What Will You Learn?

Mandy Pattullo is a textile artist who primarily works with pieces of old quilt, French and vintage textiles and uses textile collage techniques to build up her enchanting fabric pictures. She will be bringing some of these exciting and special materials with her and demonstrating how you can use them in conjunction with hand stitch to create unique illustrative work. You will have the chance to create a portrait of a garden bird, to look at how to create stylised flowers through finger turned applique, free collage or fussy cutting and using and referring to domestic embroidery.. You might even have time to celebrate our bees too. There would be no flowers without them!

Mandy will show you inspiring examples of her own work and guide you all the way and remember you get to work on and use some of those special quilt fragments that are the signature of her work.

A LITTLE ABOUT COURT HOUSE FARM…

Which isn’t really a working farm at all! It’s more of a lovely cluster of charming historic buildings, the site originally dating from pre doomsday. The remaining Manor and smaller Manor are medieval and Tudor, dating from 1350, with some characterful outbuildings. (You may be making things in the cowshed- but no cows and clean!) we have 4 acres of land around the buildings with a little flower farm, and we are right in the heart of a small estuary sea-side town of Portishead in Somerset (with a lovely little high street, Marina and stunning coastal walks and the most fabulous setting suns). Do look at more information on the website and for photographs of the interiors and exteriors. During your stay, we will have some additional fun interludes and entertainment (we must show you our neighbouring little seaside town called Clevedon- with the prettiest Pier in England) and of course plenty of flowers!

FURTHER DETAILS

• This is a 5-night residential retreat. (5 nights’ accommodation and full board).

• The price is £2550 for single occupancy, own room with ensuite, £2350 for single occupancy own room sharing a bathroom, £1950 shared room (both attending the retreat booked together). Contact us if you would like a non-participating partner to attend).

• If you are local and would like to attend the retreat on a day only basis the cost is £1,000. This includes all materials, delicious chef cooked lunch and early evening meal, plus wine, talks and visits. Please contact Helen for further details or to book at: at.courthousefarm@gmail.com

• The booking deposit is £500. (please get in touch for other currency)

• The balance will be due 6 weeks prior to the retreat. Payments can be made by Paypal or Bank Transfer, ( although we do charge for the Pay pal interest fee.)

• The Course Fees are non-refundable once paid, but of course, if we cancel for any reason all payments will be refunded, or mutually agreeable alternative dates offered.

• If you are coming from abroad or feel you may want to spend a day on either side of the retreat for rest and relaxation, do, please discuss this with us.

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