Paper Flower Making with Tiffanie Turner
16-24 September 2024
US artist Tiffanie Turner will be returning to the UK for another wonderful paper flower making retreat at Goodnestone Park in Kent from 16-24 September 2024. We’d love you to join us at Goodnestone for a week of creativity, interesting excursions, delicious food and luxurious accommodation in a historic stately home.
Across ten instructional sessions totalling five full days during the retreat, Tiffanie will show you how to make a variety of beautiful, lifelike botanicals using crepe papers. Employing a range of methods, you’ll learn the skills you need to capture the natural beauty of flowers throughout their complete lifecycle from the unfurling of a new bud to a fading bloom.
As a self-taught paper flower artist, Tiffanie has learned many tricks of the trade and is eager to share them all with you. You will learn her special techniques for paper staining, layered centers, and creating beautiful petal forms, and will incorporate them into the flowers you make during your time together. You’ll also learn to master leaves, stems, and other details for added realism, and will leave at the end of the retreat with a beautiful selection of completed flowers and the confidence and skills to recreate your own natural looking specimens at home.
This session is for all skill levels and meant for students new to Tiffanie's workshops at Goodnestone.
Your accommodation for the week is at Goodnestone Park, the former home of Jane Austen’s brother Edward. This beautiful house dating from 1704 is surrounded by Goodnestone Park’s exceptionally beautiful 15-acre gardens which are known for their ancient woodland, parterre gardens and classical English planting. Described as one of the top three gardens in Kent, we will have access to the gardens during our stay including the recently restored Serpentine Walk, a favourite of Jane Austen.
The retreat will include a number of interesting excursions including to the medieval town of Rye with its picturesque jumble of cobbled streets and half-timbered buildings and to the world-renowned gardens at Sissinghurst Castle created in the 1930s by poet and author Vita Sackville-West. We’ll also visit 15th century Knole Park, one of England’s largest country houses. A calendar house, it is reputed to have 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards.
Essential information
12 luxury ensuite bedrooms for single or double occupancy
Minimum 8 participants. Maximum 16 participants
16-24 September 2024
8 night /9 day creative retreat
Prices
£4300-£4700 per person single occupancy
£3900 per person double occupancy
£1900 per person for a non-participating partner
£700 deposit on booking
30% due on 15 February 2024
Full balance 15 May 2024
Included
8 nights at Goodnestone Park, Kent
Meals at Goodnestone Park: 8 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 8 three-course dinners with wine
5 days full-time tuition with Tiffanie Turner
All workshop materials, coach transport to and from Goodnestone Park and Richmond. Excursions to Petersham Nurseries, Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, Rye and Knole Park
Excluded
Airfares to UK. Airport transfers.
3 lunches during excursions. Medical and travel insurance
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“Thank you so much for such an amazing retreat! The food, the venue, the excursions were all planned so beautifully. The time and instruction with Tiffanie was incredible. I am running out of superlatives, but it was the best time ever and one I will never forget”
Claudia G, United States
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Tiffanie Turner
Tiffanie Turner is a paper flower artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked as an architect for 15 years before beginning a career as a botanical sculptor. She is the author of The Fine Art of Paper Flowers, which was released in 2017 and has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the US since 2014. She teaches paper flower making retreats in the US and abroad, and is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco.
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Goodnestone Park
Goodnestone Park underwent a large-scale renovation in 2016 when modern comforts were cleverly interwoven into the original, resulting in a brilliant fusion of classical elegance with a sleek 21st century accent. The stunning reception rooms are made for entertaining and relaxation and the twelve divine bedrooms, many decorated in homage to family members, are furnished with the most comfortable beds imaginable.
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