• Tutorial: Miniature Painting with Nell McKay

    14 March 2021 /

    Saturday 15 May 18.00-20.00 Part 1 Tuesday 18 May 18.00-20.00 Part 2 £75.00 Intermediate/Advanced 12 Students maximum You will learn how to transfer a reduced image onto an already prepared panel. Then using oil paints you will  begin…

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  • Tutorial: Carpet bag with Cilla Hallbert

    13 March 2021 /

    Monday 17th May 17.00-18.00 £50.00 Beginner 30 Students Maximum You will use vintage materials to make an un-opening carpet bag. The class will consist of a demo with Cilla using photos to show how to make…

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  • Tutorial: Hats Galore with Silvia Leiner

    12 March 2021 /

    Monday 17 May 18.00-21.00  £35.00 Beginner 20 students maximum Create three  beautiful straw hats. Learn how to work with hat straw, how to shape it and keep it shaped!  You will decorate the hats and learn how…

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  • Tutorial: Pop-Up Book with Tine Krijnen

    12 March 2021 /

    Tuesday 18 May 17.30-20.30 £55.00 Intermediate 10 Students maximum. Students will make the pop-up book published in 1898 for the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina.  A simple edition in those days, especially because it had…

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  • SMALL TALK with Kat Picot

    11 March 2021 /

    Small Talk with Kat Picot of Shrunk Magazine Interviewer: Charlotte Stokoe Date: Sunday 16 May 18.30-19.30 FREE Kat Picot the founder of Shrunk Magazine, will be talking to us straight after her make-along demo on Instagram…

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  • Like Father, like daughter

    21 February 2021 /

    Georgina Ritson tells how she inherited her father’s creative addiction. Georgina’s father made lots of toys for her when she was young, but with Georgina aged 11, he embarked on his most ambitious project to…

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  • Meet the Miniaturist

    26 January 2021 /

    LDF Organiser Charlotte Stokoe will be talking to Darren Scala on a live webinar on Sunday 31st January 2021 Thanks to everyone who tuned in to listen to the webinar last night with Darren Scala…

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  • Message from Our Maker.

    25 January 2021 /

    Buy one of Michael Mortimer’s miniatures & you get more than a piece of furniture. Michael Mortimer began exhibiting at the Kensington Dollshouse Festival in 2006. Each piece of his 16th Century furniture is sold…

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  • Acquisto Silver

    13 January 2021 /

    What started as a challenge from his sister 40 years ago, is now an all consuming passion for Pete Acquisto. Growing up, Pete’s father was a skilled carver and a master furniture builder.  At 14,…

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