Art Doll Making with The Pale Rook - 3 Days
Join us for an enlightening and intensive three day Art Doll Making workshop with The Pale Rook from 13th - 15th March, where we will be exploring free-form art doll making.
About Art Doll Making with The Pale Rook - 3 Days
| 13th March 2026 | |
| Friday and Saturday 10am - 4pm / Sunday 11am - 4pm | |
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Central Scotland School of Craft Craft Central, Riverview Building High Street, Dunblane FK15 0EE |
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| £345 | |
| Visit the event website here | |
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The focus will be on recognising the sparks and seeds of ideas, how to nurture them and then develop them into characters that reflect our thoughts, emotions and personal narratives.
We’ll be working with collage, found objects, and a variety of free form doll making methods to create a doll that is entirely personal and meaningful to you. Many of these methods have been developed by Johanna in her own doll making practice.
Using intuitive design methods, you will create dolls that are not only beautiful, but unique and meaningful to you, reflecting your character, your experiences, and the stories that resonate with you. Feel free to bring along your own collections of fabrics, embellishments, found objects etc and we will incorporate them in a meaningful way to make your doll truly personal.
Previous experience working with textiles is useful, but the course is open to all levels, including complete beginners.
The Central Scotland School of Craft is the only venue in Scotland where this three day workshop will be available. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to be part of this unique crafting experience!
About Your Tutor:
“I studied textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and fashion the Royal College of Art in London. I have been making dolls, puppets and creatures since childhood but only stopped hiding them from other people in the last few years.
Themes of transformation and transmutation are always present in my work. I create figures that are frozen in the moment between one state and the next. Rather than aiming to recreate a flawless, idealised view of the human figure in a doll, I find beauty in the incomplete, the broken, the decayed, lost, unexpected and vulnerable.
All of my pieces are individually hand dyed using herbal and plant infusions gathered in Scotland and prepared by hand in my studio. Each piece is a response not only to my own creative inclination at the time of making, but to the season, weather, vegetation and environment around me at a particular time and place.”
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