Hello 2023

 Hello Everyone

Our current frosty spell is beautiful but oh so frosty.

It's a while since I updated you all with what's going on at Treetops this term, plenty behind the scenes and we look forward to welcoming Claire and our painters back from March.

We have 1 space left on our Spring Flowers Watercolour class on Thursday 2 March, suitable for all levels of artists.  The class runs from 9:30am until approximately 3pm.  All of your materials are included so you just need to bring yourself.  Also included is a delicious lunch with a glass of wine.

Other classes coming up with Claire include:

Beginners & Refreshers class on Tuesday 4 April

In the Med on Tuesday 11 May

All our classes with Claire cost £85

To see what else we have please visit the website

Watercolour Classes

Proving very popular at the moment is our Online Snowdrop Watercolour Workshop, we put this together in aid of Hospice UK and to support the National Garden Scheme's Snowdrop Festival 2023.

It is suitable for everyone, and is shorter than our other online workshops at just under an hour, and it only uses 4 watercolour paints.

Claire shows you how to sketch and paint these beautiful little flowers.  Covering how to apply masking fluid, mix paints, apply washes, think about your back ground, mid ground and foreground, and the finishing touches such as shadows.

The Online Workshop costs £15 with £10 going directly to Hospice UK.

Buy Snowdrops Workshop HERE

We also put together a Snowdrop Materials Box with everything in that you need for the Workshop, you can buy this separately in our Shop

Don't forget we have a great choice of Online Workshops to download and do in your own time at home, some wintery to suit now and a lovely blossom one to look forward to Spring with!

See other Online Workshops

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Rachel was at Treetops this week filming some new Online Yoga Workshops, one was a lovely relaxing Yin Winter Workshop, so we now have the full 4 season collection for you!  This is currently being edited and sound engineered so should be with us soon in all it's lovely HD and professional quality.

We also filmed a short Morning Wake Up flow (10 minutes) and a Bedtime Settle Down flow (17 minutes).  These will be available to buy as one, and are perfect for when you don't have lots of time available but can still stretch, focus, practice your breath and relax.

To see our other Yoga Online Workshops see here  

They vary in length, some are in sections, once downloaded you can practice your yoga again and again.

Rachel was relieved that for Winter I let her inside to film, the other 3 are in the woodland our gardens at Treetops and look wonderful, and you can hear the birds, and even the cows in the bottom field sometimes!

Our popular evening Aroma Yoga classes will be back soon, make sure you are on the mailing list as these dates sell out quickly.

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Our beautiful Wellbeing Candle is selling really well, a gorgeous scent of geranium and warm woods, made locally with locally sourced beeswax it makes a lovely gift or treat for yourself.

If you buy a Wellbeing Candle in February, you will also receive some Geranium, Rose & Lavender bath salts in an epsom and pink himalayan salts mix, these are soooo relaxing at bathtime.

Our Wellbeing Gift Boxes were not just for Christmas, they will be available all year for gifting, they include the Wellbeing Candle, a rollerball blend from yoga Rachel, a lavender, rose and geranium eye pillow, the above bath salts, loose leaf herbal tea, delicious vegan chocolate and a lavender bag.

£50 with free p&p

For those of you who enjoyed our Christmas Canapes Class and would like more Cookery at Treetops, I'm currently putting ideas together and will announce dates shortly.

Fresh, colourful, seasonal and easy ideas

Make ahead of time, help with cooking for family and friends large occasions.

Don't forget to follow us on facebook for up to date news and our dates page on the website.

Bluebells Watercolour - We are Back!

It was great to welcome back some artists for our first Watercolour class after 25 months!

Beautiful Bluebells; as well as watercolour paints we used texture paste for the pathway and pva glue and tissue paper to create texture for our trees.

We were joined by someone from the new local magazine Made in the Shire, who wrote a lovely review which I thought I'd share with you below:

What a day we had yesterday! We were lucky enough to experience one of Treetops Watercolour Workshops in Newbury, along with many other lovely people.

Treetops is such a stunning venue surrounded by countryside, and our Watercolour Tutor, Claire, was super at explaining every clearly and teaching us how to create our own pieces of art.

Included in our ticket was hot drinks, yummy cake, a very wholesome lunch, followed by a calming glass of wine.

The stroll round the grounds after lunch gave us all even more energy and inspiration to finish our creations, which we took home with us.

A highly recommend experience, either for yourself or as a gift for someone special!

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We enjoyed a delicious lunch of chicken & parma ham roulade, with wild rice, wild garlic and artichoke salad, and a crunchy bright vegetable salad with mustard dressing.  Dessert was Raspberry Cream Crush.

We are back for another Watercolour Class on 11 May, which is the stunning Isle of Scilly.

Latest September News from Treetops

Hello Everyone
We've missed you

Thank you to all of you who have kept in touch during our closed period, it's been very strange not having you at Treetops for our classes.

We will be staying closed a little while longer whilst things settle down from Covid, as I want you all to be able to enjoy your relaxing Treetops day in the 'good old days' style!

I hope you've all managed to stay well and busy, perhaps picked up a new hobby or two? I've been mastering some jigsaws and making pictures with shells from my trips to Cornwall.

Claire and I have got together a few times and we are working on something fantastic to share with you shortly!

Keep an eye on your emails, the Treetops website, blog and facebook for when we make our announcement.

If you have created some artwork during lockdown and you would like to share it with us, I will be putting together a blog post shortly and would love to have a photo of it.

Best wishes Emily

Pen & Wash Class

Friday started with a brief covering of snow, but it had all gone before our Pen & Wash class started.

The theme was A Spanish Port, and Claire had chosen a lovely colourful image from Port Sa Playa in Valencia.

The artists used permanent pen to create their sketch, using their imagination and creativity to capture the essence of the original.

A light wash of watercolour paint was added at the end, the idea is not to 'colour it in', but to add splashes and hints of colour.

We enjoyed beautiful sunshine for most of the day.

Delicious pudding today, a jaffa cake ice cream loaf cake!

One of our artists captured this lovely photo of Spring blossom from the garden before she left.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Tulips Watercolour

The sun was shining and we enjoyed a colourful day studying and painting Tulips with watercolour.

Beautiful backgrounds and gorgeous flowers

Lunch was Saffron & Honey chicken with braised split peas and this colourful Red Cabbage and Quinoa salad

Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour

Last week we had a very successful Beginners & Refreshers Watercolour class with Claire.

First thing is learning about the paints, brushes, papers and mixing

Claire demonstrates in a step by step style and offers plenty of support throughout the day

There were lots of techniques in this painting of a misty morning, washes, reflections, shadows, trees, foliage and creating the mist itself.

Below are the finished works of art ...

Claire is back this week for Swathes of Sunflowers, I have two places left if you would like to join us

9:30am - approx 3pm

£75

all materials, a 2 course lunch and a glass of wine included