This workshop concentrates on story-telling and creating a simple narrative through stitch, collage and appliqué. You will be using the needle both as your drawing tool and to secure found objects in place. Jessie will show each participant individually and as a group how to construct a simple 3-dimensional object from rags and found fabrics.

During the workshop you will explore your own narrative/starting points, finding ways to allow your story to unravel into the materials and object you create, this may be a wearable piece such as a brooch or equally a piece for the Wall at home.

Morning Age 4 plus/ Afternoon 7 plus

Create a circus inspired headpiece or a Buffalo Bill Wild West Show inspired headdress with costume designer and maker Tamsin Thorne, using the gallery's current exhibition 'Where the Wonderful Happens' as inspiration. Working with fabric, stitch and embellishment you will leave the workshop with your own handmade headpiece ready to wear!

Abergavenny closes its streets to traffic and fills them to the brim with wonderful, eclectic food stalls, entertainers, music, cafes and shops spilling out onto the street. Come and enjoy the weekend.

Our festival starts on Saturday 15th outside in our pop-up painting studio with Kumar Saraff, who will be painting and drawing from a still-life table of delicious foods. Come and observe a Royal Academy Schools trained artist at work.

At 1pm there will be live music by Carmina, "a superb mix of jazz, folk and celtic crossover music - taking the audience on a bewitching journey full of melodic grace and inventiveness - a brilliant band superbly fronted by vocalist Pippa Marland and guitarist Rob King" (Jack McGouran, Guinness Jazz Festival).

Inside our Food Festival Exhibitions this year are...

A Theatre of Plates - an exhibition of artist decorated vintage ceramics

Friends and customers come and join us at The Art Shop between 11-12am for a glass of mulled wine and hot, minced tarts. Visit our Mixed Winter Show and be entertained by Byrde, a lively, eclectic and utterly original group of musicians...

...Take 3 women, 12 recorders, 1 shawm, some Irish whistles and a bagpipe, a few bells and a string drum...add some new music, wild medieval dances and renaissance love songs and you have encountered BYRDE.

The simple techniques of hand embroidery and applique will be used with fragments of fabric, paper and found materials to create embroidered ’pages’. Each page will be worked on as a whole, with the possibility of binding them into a book, or for producing a series of small wall pieces that depict your own story. These may be later framed.

Buy hand printed Kitchen Utencil wrapping papers, thick linen aprons, big recipe scrap-books and textiles for your table by Jessie Chorley and Cornelia O’Donovan RCA., alongside tableware by new makers.

Listen to a blend of folk, jazz and Irish music - a live performance by acclaimed musicians Pippa Marland and Rob King 'Carmina'. All spilling out onto the street outside our shop...

Morning. Age 8 plus. Calling all ’Eco Warriors, prepare for battle! Make your own set of decorative body armour using cardboard, paper and recycled packaging. Design your own personal crest or emblem and create a set of body armour embellished with 3D decoupage using collage, scraffito and paint techniques. Are you inspired by the ruthless romans, the groovy greeks, or the viscious vikings? This workshop is not just for boys, also calling out to all budding Boudiccas...

Afternoon. Age 5 plus. Junior ’Eco Warriors’ can join Tamsin in the afternoon to decorate and embellish a sword and shield set using paper, card, recycled packaging, collage and paint.

Having recently exhibited here with his show ‘Personal Encounters’ (26th March - 14th May), Royal Academy Schools trained painter, Kumar Saraff, will run a series of intensive one-day workshops.

The first workshop is primarily for beginners and those with a little experience. You will learn how to select a basic palette of colours and brushes, gain an understanding of watercolour surfaces, and acquire enough techniques to build up confidence, enabling you to continue on your own.

A chance to learn the ancient and beautiful craft of stone carving with sculptor Matt Caines. You will create your own limestone relief sculpture and Matt will guide you through each stage of designing, making a clay model and the carving process itself. He will show you examples of his own pieces and discuss the work of the Eric Gill commune at Capel-y-ffin, with an introduction to the principles and techniques of lettering and stonecarving.

An intensely creative experience, Matt believes that because there are no 'short cuts' with carving, it brings out a very deep expression of one's innermost self and has seen the revelatory effect it has had on students in his 11 years of teaching.

A psychological thriller, set in Spain and south-east Wales, on obsession and the far-reaching evils of perfectionism.

Tim is emasculated by a gang of bullies at the age of fifteen and devotes his life to revenge. He plans to build a machine which will kill each member of the gang one by one. Each death must be aesthetically beautiful, and so Tim apprentices himself to a brilliant craftsmen to acquire all the skills he needs. Then he begins to practice the perfect murder.