Workshops
New for 2025!
We are launching our first seasonal program of hands-on courses, to be held at our studio in East Sussex, as well as two walking workshops, exploring the materiality of our local landscape.
The studio courses and walking workshops will focus on understanding materials, their landscape origins and practical methods of processing and making.
Outline information is below. More details will become available in the early new year.
Course No.1
Late-Winter (Prevernal)
Working with Coppiced Timber
A one day course at our Sussex studio, including demonstrations and hands-on making with green Sweet Chestnut and Hazel. We will be preparing, splitting and shaping wood into shingles, laths, pales, spars and other elements. We will work to creatively assemble our components onto a greenwood frame to make a screen.
7th March 2025
10am – 4pm
Price = £220 per person
12 participants maximum
Please follow this link to make a booking:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-with-coppiced-timber-tickets-1118864958209?aff=oddtdtcreator
The course will take place at our studio and workshop:
Unit 6, Sewells Farm
Bird’s Hole Lane, Barcombe
Lewes, East Sussex
BN8 5FH
Vegetarian lunch provided – please contact us if you have any dietry requirements
The nearest train station is Cooksbridge (2 miles), with direct trains to London and Lewes. We can pick-up and drop-off from Cooksbridge at 9.40am and 4.15pm. Please email us if you require this lift: [email protected] There is a limited bus service to the village and some car parking at the farm.
Please bring warm clothes, practical footwear and work gloves, as some activities will be outdoors.
This course is open to everyone, including those with no experience of working with wood. We will be teaching a physical process and reasonable hand strength is required.
If you are unable to pay for the course in full, and would like to discuss making 2 stage pre-payments, please email us: [email protected]
In 2025 we will be hosting 4 seasonal hands-on courses and 2 walking workshops in Sussex.
The next courses at our studio will be:
Working with Natural Paints – Spring
Working with Waste Excavation Earth – Summer
Building with Harvest By-Products (plants) – Autumn
The first walking workshop will be in the South Downs in East Sussex, looking at chalk, flint and lime.
More information coming soon…
About Us
Local Works Studio was formed in 2017 as a partnership between a landscape architect and a building craftsman.
Our Approach
Local Works Studio takes a landscape-led approach to design, using site-based resources and processes to plan, make and repair.
Services
Our services aim to provide the varied tools needed to make any site a more environmentally sustainable, equitable, interesting and joyful place to be.