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Paper Marbling - Half-day Introduction

4.9(28 reviews)
Learn how to 'paint on water' using centuries-old marbling techniques to create your own beautiful papers.
London
In-person
£70 pp
3hrs
Beginner
What happens in this class?

If you love playing with paint or getting creative with paper, this workshop is for you. Marbling is one of the most rewarding and fun crafts out there - plus it's virtually impossible to do it 'wrong'!

During this fast-paced three-hour workshop, you will be given a thorough introduction to the beautiful art of paper marbling, including a brief history, the technical 'do's and 'don't's, and a lot of trying it out!

Paper marbling is a centuries-old art where paint is floated upon a bath of thickened water and drawn through with various tools…

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Things to remember

Contemporary paper marbler Lucy McGrath will demonstrate various techniques and talk you through how to recreate them yourself, providing all the tools, equipment and materials you might need to get really experimental.Marbling is great fun but super messy so make sure you wear old clothes (and shoes)! You don…

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4.9(28 reviews)
Booking Options
Private BookingFor groups of 4 to 10 guests
£70

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Age Requirement

13
All students under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Flexible cancellation policy

Any class can be cancelled and fully refunded within 24 hours of purchase. See cancellation policy.
Your Teacher

Lucy McGrath started Marmor Paperie in 2015 with the aim of breathing a new life into the dying art of paper marbling. Having discovered marbling on a holiday to Istanbul, where it is still widely practised, Lucy caught the marbling bug and began ravenously learning all she could about this fascinating craft.

Having learnt bookbinding at university, Lucy quickly realised how well the two crafts complemented each other, so Marmor Paperie was built around hand-made notebooks and sketchbooks covered with her marbled papers.

Lucy was awarded the Cockpit Arts / Arts Society grant in 2016 which funded a studio at…

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Class Location
Cockpit Bloomsbury
London
Cockpit Yard
WC1N 2NP
London

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