

Sat, 06 Sept
|Chapter House, St Mary's Cathedral
Plants are our Teachers: Listening to the Trees
These popular workshops are participatory art workshops, suitable for all levels of ability, from beginners to advanced.
Time & Location
06 Sept 2025, 10:00 – 07 Sept 2025, 17:00
Chapter House, St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Pl, Edinburgh EH12 5AW, UK
About
Now in their third year, the Cathedral's popular 'Plants are our Teachers' workshops are participatory art workshops, focussing on nature, suitable for all levels of ability from beginners to advanced.
Programme
During this workshop we will get to know several trees through making composite drawings – creating many small drawings that together create a whole. Back in the studio we will take aspects of this imagery together with gathered materials to create tree mandalas – circular drawings using tree-based inks, charcoal and earth pigments.
A two-day workshop with Sarah Gittins – artist and educator.
Cost
All weekend workshops run from 10am to 4.30pm and cost £120. (Block booking all 4 of Sarah’s workshops qualifies for a reduced fee of £100 per workshop.) The workshop with Ian Edwards costs £60 irrespective of other workshop attendance. All materials are included in the fees. (A limited number of subsidised places for all course are available for those with…