Workshops

Christmas at Farleys is a time when the house is normally closed to visitors, but attendees of this workshop will get to enjoy the Festive atmosphere that Farleys creates so well. We will cook a seasonal celebratory feast, perhaps inspiring you with some ideas for your own Christmas dinner along the way. Recipes will include Carrots in Whiskey, Popacatapetl Hot Sauce & Sesame Chicken for Miro. All to be enjoyed during a festive lunch, with your fellow workshop attendees, at Lee Miller’s kitchen table.

Whether a complete beginner or a keen improver, come to Farleys and learn how to take creative, meaningful photographic portraits within the landscape of the gardens, inspired by the connections between people, place and memory.

A workshop suitable for both beginners and experienced artists, who may enjoy a special opportunity to sketch and draw flowers in the sculpture garden at Farleys, assisted by an experienced tutor, Gilly Lovegrove. In celebration of Farleys at 75, the workshop will also explore themes surrounding flowers and memories. Particularly, how evocative of people and place flowers can be, both in the garden and in cut flower arrangements in the home. Flowers have always played a very important role in everyday life at Farleys.

For Farleys 75…I Remember, two very special cookery workshops. Food can be so evocative of time, people and place, acting as a powerful trigger that arouses treasured memories. Lee Miller’s 1950’s fitted kitchen at Farleys is, to some degree, a time capsule, an Aladdin’s cave of ingredients and gadgets, which were all used by Lee over her many years creating and cooking. During these cookery workshops at Farleys, you are sure to find much that stimulates your own memories of the food of your past, and the ways in which it is relevant today. Farleys kitchen comes alive during our fun workshops, when we exchange ideas and recreate Lee’s recipes using ingredients from her vegetable patch in the garden.

Souvenir : A poetry workshop inspired by the concepts surrounding our memories that are evoked by objects and place.

A souvenir, memento or keepsake is an object a person retains for the memories the owner associates with it. The word comes from the French ‘souvenir’, which means to remember.