in-person & ONLINE teaching for 2026 - SCROLL DOWN TO SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN DATE ORDER
IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
I do love a live class and I’m running five, 5-day workshops in 2026. Please scroll down to find out more and to find links to the different venues for registration.
ONLINE WITH TAKE TWO ART COURSES
Take Two have a superb suite of online learning and in 2026 I will be running two of my online courses, with a third re-opening in January 2027. Details and links can be found when you scroll down, or visit:
https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses
TEXTure; online course, January 2026
My new course with Take two will be available for registration in January 2026. TEXTure is a course focused on adapting and using your own handwriting as a form of mark making and visual expression. Text is simply a mark and this course will enable you to create elegant artworks using texture, line, shape and dynamic colour. Clear video-based instruction supported by illustrated written material, a private community portal where you can engage with myself and others, and three live Q&A’s.
Registration will open in January 2026. Please visit Take Two, where you can pre-register your interest with no obligation:
https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/clairebenn
Marking Time; IN-PERSON WORKSHOP, 2-6 MARCH, 2026
Held at the InStitches studio in Eversley, just south of Wokingham, this is a workshop to enable participants to:
take the time to actively look, notice, observe, contemplate and extract
engage and respond through the processes of collecting, hand stitching, mark-making, over-painting, writing, drawing, assembling, wrapping, binding, painting, eroding and distressing.
hold and experience silence and stillness.
For more information and to register, visit: https://www.institchestextilecourses.co.uk/claire-benn---marking-time.html
Out of This Earth; IN-PERSON WORKSHOP, 24-29 May, 2026
Held at beautiful Courthouse Farm in Portishead, North Somerset (with the option of luxury full-board residential or non-residential), this course is designed to introduce you to an ecological method of binding pigments (earth, mineral and synthetic) to textiles using soya milk. The workshop will explore a wide range of approaches using liquid and thickened pigment paints and enable you to get to grips with the process.
Please visit Courthouse Farm to find out more, and to register: https://www.courthousefarm.com/creativelistings-home/2026/clairebenn/outofthisearthpigmentretreat
TEXTure; IN PERSON WORKSHOP, 15-19 June, 2026
Held at Bridge House Art in Ullapool (NW Scotland) this is a workshop focused on adapting and using your own handwriting as a form of mark making and visual expression. Text is simply a mark and this course will enable you to create elegant artworks using texture, line, shape and dynamic colour.
Please visit the Bridge House website to find out more, and to register: https://www.bridgehouseart.co.uk/summer2026
Working with Intention – Guided Independent Study; IN PERSON WORKSHOP, 29 June to 3 July, 2026
Held at the InStitches studio in Eversley, just south of Wokingham, this is a workshop designed to help participants make the work they want to make, with a focus on good composition. Please visit the InStitches website to find out more, and to register: https://www.institchestextilecourses.co.uk/claire-benn---working-with-intention.html
Note; this workshop is fully booked but scroll down, as there’s another running in September 2026.
Out of This Earth; ONLINE COURSE, AUGUST 2026
Its fourth year online, this course is designed to introduce you to an ecological method of binding pigments (earth, mineral and synthetic) to textiles using soya milk. The workshop will explore a wide range of approaches using liquid and thickened pigment paints and enable you to get to grips with the process. Clear video-based instruction supported by illustrated written material, a private community portal where you can engage with myself and others, and three live Q&A’s. Registration opens on 28 August, 2026, but you can register your interest without obligation now:
Working with Intention – Guided Independent Study; IN PERSON WORKSHOP, 28 September to 2 October 2026
Held at the InStitches studio in Eversley, just south of Wokingham, this is a workshop designed to help participants make the work they want to make, with a focus on good composition. Please visit the InStitches website to find out more, and to register: https://www.institchestextilecourses.co.uk/claire-benn---working-with-intention.html
BEYOND TECHNIQUE; ONLINE COURSE, JANUARY 2027
Beyond Technique will go live again in January 2027. As the title indicates, it’s not a course about technique. Instead, it’s about developing yourself and your practice in order to move your art forward. Along with 11+ hours of video, the programme is supported with illustrated written material, a private community portal where you can engage with myself and others, and four live Q&A’s. You can find out more and register your interest without obligation at: https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/clairebennmasterclass
Please follow this link if you’d like to watch a video about this Masterclass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxdy9DyXvJY