Immersive Art Retreat - SHROPSHIRE HILLS - Sep 2025
Please note, this listing is for the deposit only. The full cost of a single place on the retreat is £1400. Details of how and when to pay the balance of £1050 will be emailed to you after booking. Payment may be made in full or in three instalments of £350 due at intervals up to 18th July 2025.
All-inclusive residential art retreat, hosted and tutored by Tansy Hargan, in the tranquil and inspiring Shropshire Hills.
DATE: 1st - 6th September 2025.
LOCATION: The Hurst, Clunton, Craven Arms, Shropshire, SY7 0JA, UK (see map in images).
Who is this retreat suitable for? Anyone with the desire to spend a week immersed in "wraparound art", from mindful painting before breakfast, through to an "arty social" every evening after supper. In terms of art experience, you could be a complete beginner or a professional artist, or any level between. Workshops are devised to allow a high degree of self direction and experimentation, while having clear objectives and processes. Tansy will demonstrate and support as necessary throughout the week.
The retreat will focus on the dual idea of "gathering" and "developing" - moving from location to studio - observing and experiencing, ideating and experimenting. Workshops will be process-based and varied in terms of materials, methods and modes of thinking, with exercises in drawing, painting, assemblage, manipulation of text and textiles, writing, and mark making with foraged matter.
What's included:
- 9 two-hour art workshops, inc. all materials and tools needed.
- A 50-minute one-to-one tutorial/mentoring session (topic of your choice, to be discussed via email prior to the retreat) with Tansy.
- 5 meditative "morning marks" watercolour painting sessions. These will be an optional (6:30am) start to each day, with only the sound of brush washing and bird song breaking the companionable silence.
-"Make your own watercolour paint", two-hour session inc. talk on pigment, demo of process, and everything you need to make a half-pan of a colour of your own.
- Free use of the art studio outside of workshops, includes use of tools, media, paper and textiles, typewriter, and sewing machine.
- 5 nights accommodation in a single en suite study bedroom.
- 5 buffet breakfasts, 4 ploughman's lunches, and 5 two-course evening meals, freshly prepared in The Hurst kitchen using local seasonal produce and served in the dining room. All dietary requirements accommodated (a questionnaire will be emailed to you after booking, to allow the catering team to devise a menu that suits everyone).
- Tea, coffee, fruit and snacks will be available for self service.
- Welcome pack, inc. two sketchbooks.
- Travel within the retreat.
- Car parking at the Hurst (directions will be provided after booking). If you are coming by train, collection from Craven Arms Station can be arranged.
- Lunch at Stokesey Castle tea rooms.
- Cost of entry to Stokesey Castle, English Heritage site.
Any questions? Please email [email protected].
