Join Helen Brook in the Community Space at Calverley Old Hall this January for a unique and inspiring experience. This workshop invites participants into a space of quiet reflection and sensory exploration, offering an opportunity to reconnect with the grounding power and subtle magic of the winter season through creative expression.

You will leave with a personal, unique and scent-inspired artwork feeling relaxed and inspired to embrace the winter season. Through expressive mark-making and the use of seasonal botanicals, we will engage the senses and explore winter’s potential for rest, renewal, and creative awakening - even in its darkest and coldest days.

We'll begin with a nature-guided meditation session, where you will be invited to inhale and reflect on individual plant-based essential oils, tuning into the memories, feelings, and imagery they evoke in you.

Following this, we’ll channel those impressions into a creative session of scent-inspired expressive mark-making. You will use botanical materials and natural inks, and will be guided in responding to scent through colour, shape, and line on paper.

What to expect on the day   

All equipment and materials will be provided.

Seasonal Herbal Teas & Winter Nibbles will be available.

This workshop will involve plant-based essential oils. Please inform us at the time of booking of any allergies or fragrance sensitivities you, or anyone you are booking on behalf of, may have.

We’ll be using natural inks & dyes in this session, so please come wearing clothes you don’t mind getting stained.   

This workshop is for aged 16+. Any 16/17 year olds must be accompanied by an accompanying paying responsible adult aged 18+.

Student/Low income/NHS worker discount 

In order to make this workshop as accessible as possible for all, we are offering a £5 discount on the ticket price for students, people on low income or income support and NHS workers. Please use the code DISCOUNT5 in the promo codes field on Eventbrite when booking your ticket. Unfortunately we are only able to offer this discount on a limited number of tickets.

If the code is rejected on Eventbrite, or you can’t add more tickets using the code, it is because we have reached our limit on discounted tickets and only full price tickets are available.  

Getting here    

There is no parking on site, the building is in the centre of Calverley, on Woodhall Road, so we encourage visitors to use Leeds and Bradford’s excellent public transport to travel to the event. Please check local travel information for full details.    

If you need to drive, there is ample on street parking in the surrounding area. Please park considerately for our neighbours.    

What3Words: ///police.hunt.moons. Full information and meeting location is provided with your booking confirmation.    

Accessibility  

Calverley Old Hall Community Space has been designed to be as accessible as possible, however it is an historic building with restrictions. There is level access to the main front door, the pathway from the road is a combination of gravel and paving slabs.    

In the Community Space there is level access throughout, with a small 2cm metal ridge across the threshold of the external doorway.    

Please consult our Access Guide for further information about access in the Community Space.  

We do all we can to enable access wherever possible; please let us know of any access requirements or allergies or fragrance sensitivities at the time of booking. If you have any access concerns that you’d like to discuss before booking, please contact us via email here.

Thanks to National Lottery Players, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, who have made this restoration and this event possible.