Learn Pyrography The Art of Drawing With Fire with Lee Borthwick at Craft Central
14th May 2022
This workshop invites participants to join sculptor Lee Borthwick for a relaxing foray into the art of pyrography, otherwise known as drawing with fire. Suitable for beginners, the workshop explores a variety of drawing techniques and pattern making using the wood burning pen and British hard woods. During the workshop we look at the range of applications for pyrography, discuss the appropriate materials to work with and create tactile natural samples. Participants can also get experimental with a blow torch. The workshop concludes with students adorning their own beech presentation board to take home.
Lee Borthwick at the Makers Market with Craft Central
14-5-2022
Join us at Craft Central for our Makers’ Market. Buy handcrafted products & gifts from talented crafters & designer-makers! Find interior products, jewellery, prints, textiles, fashion, ceramics, woodwork, workshops & more Take part in one of our bookable workshops which are part of the London Craft Week programme. We will also have Japanese pop-up Café - Gu Choki Pan -serving up beverages and fun baked goods. Exhibitors Includes Helen Lucas | Waxed Out | AMPellegrini Art & Design |Barbara Yarde | By Cecil | By Shax | Campbell Workshop | Carb Club | Gemma Rappensberger Embroidery | Jasonlockwoodturning | Kam Creates | Kate Grimes Books | Lee Borthwick| Lewis Campbell | Lou Clarke Studio | Kate Hodgson| Mountain & Molehill | Pipet Design |RuRu Bomb Limited | Silphil | Steel and Green | Ha Jewellery London| WoodSmithWorks Saturday 14 May 10.30am- 5.30pm
Lee Borthwick X VaRa Garden Design at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
24th-28th May
By invitation from the award-winning duo VaRa Garden Design, Lee Borthwick will be at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 24t h -28th May, showcasing a new collection of Cedar and mirror-based artworks. The artworks are being created in response to VaRa Garden Design’s fresh spring planting scheme, and will be sited in the wooded Ranelagh Gardens area of the Royal Hospital Gardens, Chelsea, London. The Cedar Collection 2022 is Lee’s latest outdoor commission and will feature five hand sculpted artworks. Crafted from sustainably-felled Cedar of Lebanon, that was gifted from a private garden in Kent, Lee is using her signature approach of merging tree and mirror to reveal the dramatic facades of this once proud Cedar. Lee’s sculptures, with precision cut steel mirrors sunk into the wood, will be at once both sympathetic to the landscape and strikingly distinctive amongst VaRa Garden Design’s richly textured planting. The trail of five Cedar sculptures will be available to discover amongst the wooded Ranelagh Gardens area, curated by VaRa, at the Royal Hospital Gardens from the 24th – 28th of May.