Sculpt a life size chicken wire Hen or Duck for your Garden with Susan Nichols.

*Susan is extremely busy at present and unable to confirm at this stage whether she can join us in Greystoke next year - usually August -  for more of her excellent Wire Workshops.

We've opened a waiting list (BELOW) for all possibly interested students, using the Green ' Tell me When Bookable/ join waiting list to the right of where you would normally book, next to the August date.   If we are able to arrange a date we will then notify all those on this list. Thank you.

Sue travels from the furthest reaches of East Yorkshire to the Lake District to teach students how to make her fabulous wire sculptures using her special pre-prepared sectioned galvanised chicken wire. Amazingly life like, solid and sturdy, these sculptures will last for years  They can be sprayed with coloured car paint (ie from Halfords)  or left as a lovely faded galvanised silver colour.

The course takes place in the first floor Swallow Barn Studio.

PLEASE NOTE: Working with wire is tiring on the hands.  Our wire courses are NOT SUITABLE for anyone suffering from tiredness, muscle fatigue or arthritis of any form.

9.30am – 4pm
£85 Lunch included
Material Charges £12 

Dates for this course - see the table below to book:

August 2022 Possibly-  see above **
Typically this course runs with around 10 students. Kindly note material charges payable to the tutor on the day are dependent upon wire prices at the time. Hens are £12 per bird .

Please bring: Susan brings the wire pre-cut and sectioned - in 'ready to use' pieces.  Please remember to bring some flexible gardening gloves, some needle nosed pliers and a strong apron for your lap. Susan also has some pliers to borrow on the day.

About the Artist Susan Nichols is one of the original Wire garden Sculptures artists in the north of the country and has been running her amazing wire garden sculptures courses for the past nine years - the results of the students work that attend her workshops are second to none and she constantly ensures through the day that her students remain ' on track' with their sculptures-. She has taught at Harlow Carr and many other prestigious venues as well as and still from her own studios in East Yorkshire.