Flower Arranging
The Art of the Centrepiece
With JO WILLIAMS of ISSY AND BELLA
Workshop hosted by WREN LOUCKS
Flowers have been at the heart of Jo's life for as long as she can remember. She grew up surrounded by them, and built her career from that same, unbroken devotion.
What distinguishes her work is a quality of attentiveness: a keen eye for detail, and an intuitive sense of the space flowers can hold. Jo works across the elegant, the romantic and the contemporary, always with a sensibility that feels both composed and alive.
Her practice is rooted in the rhythms of the season. She often works directly from the cutting garden, selecting each stem for its freshness and fragrance as she goes. The result is an arrangement with a spontaneity that cannot quite be engineered, only found.
Jo was Wren's wedding florist. What began there has grown into an ongoing creative partnership, and it is that same spirit of quiet collaboration they bring to these workshops.
There is something quietly grounding about working with flowers.
In this workshop, led by Jo from Issy and Bella, you will learn to compose a table centrepiece, then transform it into something ready to give.
Using seasonal flowers, Jo will guide you through the making of a considered arrangement: the layering, the balance, the decisions that turn a gathering of stems into a whole. From there, you will learn to wrap, ribbon and prepare your bouquet to travel, tissue, paper, a water bubble, so it arrives as beautifully as it was made.
You will leave with flowers in hand and a craft that extends beyond the day. A centrepiece for your table. A gift for someone else. Both made by you.
DETAILS
COST £ 175
DATE Wednesday May 13th 2026
TIME 2pm to 4.30pm
PLACE. Primrose Hill Business Centre, 110 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8HX
BRING. Just your creative self, we will provide aprons
The Painted Frame
The Art of Hand-Painted Picture Frames
With SASHA COMPTON
Workshop hosted by WREN LOUCKS
Sasha Compton is a British artist and designer whose work is rooted in a deep love of nature, heritage and the handmade. Growing up between North Yorkshire and the Isle of Mull, she developed an early sensitivity to the beauty of the natural world, an influence that runs through everything she creates, from swirling florals and folkloric figures to painterly ceramic forms.
Her work is playful and romantic in spirit, made not simply to be seen, but to bring genuine joy into the spaces it inhabits.
Sasha studied at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Art, and spent four years in Amsterdam as a Senior Graphic Designer before returning to London, where she now works from her studio in Lambeth.
Since establishing her practice in 2020, her work has been recognised internationally, appearing in House & Garden, Vogue, the Financial Times HTSI and Tatler, and she has collaborated with clients including Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, Kit Kemp, Sir John Soane's Museum and Selfridges.
At the heart of her practice is a commitment to craft and conscious making. All of Sasha's pieces are hand-drawn, hand-painted or hand-built, and she works in one-offs and limited editions, a deliberate resistance to the mass production that dominates so much of the homeware world. It is the imperfections, she believes, that give each piece its own character and life.
The Bloomsbury Group believed that beauty had no hierarchy. A painted chair deserved the same attention as a canvas. A decorated frame was not lesser work, it was the same impulse, applied differently.
In this workshop, Sasha Compton brings that spirit into your hands. You will learn to hand-paint a picture frame, guided through the motifs and marks that defined the Bloomsbury approach, pattern as pleasure, ornament as intention.
No prior experience is needed. What Sasha offers is a way of seeing as much as a technique: the understanding that a small object, carefully made, holds something of the person who made it.
You will leave with a painted frame and a quieter eye for the things that surround you.
DETAILS
COST £ 125
DATE Thursday 11th June 2026
TIME 10am to 12pm
PLACE. Primrose Hill Business Centre, 110 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8HX
BRING. Just your creative self, we will provide aprons
The Layered Surface
The Art of Collage
With SUSAN MACLEOD
Workshop hosted by WREN LOUCKS
Susan MacLeod is an award-winning jewellery designer and maker, working from her studio at Cockpit Yard in Bloomsbury. But before any piece takes form in metal, it begins on paper.
Drawing, collage, mono printing: these are not preliminary steps for Susan. They are the work. Her creative process moves through layers of mark-making, assembling and intuition before it ever reaches the bench. It is how she thinks, how she composes, how she finds the thing she is reaching for. The jewellery is the final expression of a practice that begins somewhere quieter and more exploratory.
Inspired by vivid sea colours, wild botanicals and the landscapes of the Scottish Isles where she has deep family roots, Susan works with ethically sourced stones and metals to create pieces that are entirely handmade and entirely her own. Her collections move between the organic and the refined, each one carrying the quiet evidence of the process behind it.
She guides with the same attentiveness she brings to her own making: unhurried, personal and open to what emerges.
Susan came into the Be-kin world in the most personal of ways. Wren commissioned her to make her wedding jewellery, a beginning that says something about the nature of Susan's work. It is made to be kept.
There is a particular freedom in working with paper. No fixed form, no permanence, only the pleasure of gathering, arranging and discovering what wants to be made.
Susan MacLeod has always worked this way. Before anything else, she returns to the table, to fragments of colour and texture, to the slow and intuitive process of collage. It is how she reconnects with her creativity. In this workshop, she invites you to do the same.
You will learn to build a collage from the ground up, gathering, cutting, layering, composing. Susan will guide you through the decisions that turn disparate elements into a whole: how materials speak to one another, how negative space holds as much as what fills it, how the eye finds its way.
You will leave with a piece that is entirely your own.
DETAILS
COST £ 125
DATE Thursday 16th July 2026
TIME 10am to 12pm
PLACE. Primrose Hill Business Centre, 110 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8HX
BRING. Just your creative self, we will provide aprons
