CAST-Off Saturday 17 August
See the world through a colourful new lens as you make your own kaleidoscope. Learn how to polish serpentine into a shiny pendant. Paint your own plants and creatures and add them to a giant garden landscape frieze, and mould creatures out of clay to inhabit the garden.
CAST-Off Saturday 10 August
Transform yourself into a mythical creature by making your own folk-inspired mask. Build your own wooden construction. Gather natural materials and use them to make a cyanotype print, using the power of the sun.
CAST-Off Saturday 3 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with, in our colour kitchen. Build your own wooden construction. Make houses, people, cars, trees, and animals to create a clay world!
CAST-Off Saturday 27 July
Join our talented artist team to learn how to engrave a tiny plate to print on our miniature printing press. Draw or press your own tessellating patterns into clay, using a set stamps made especially by the team at Clay Trap
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
CAST-Off Summer 2024
Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 27 July to 24 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.