30/09/2026
THE HAMILTON VASES
My Story, My Place, My Reflection 🎨
Come and create with LAMH Arts! Our FREE 90-minute workshop is open to all skill levels, with no previous art experience needed.
Explore identity, place and wellbeing through collage, photography, paint, pattern and decoupage. Create a folding storybook and gather ideas for your own Hamilton Vase design.
💭 FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
If you couldn’t tell your story in words, what images, colours or objects would you choose?
Focus on one small theme:
• Place: a street, landscape, building or map.
• Connections: people, photographs or meaningful objects.
• Journey: pathways, change or layers of experience.
• What keeps you going: nature, music, friendship, family or hope.
• Reflection: mirrors, water or repeated images.
Choose 3–5 images, words, colours or patterns that feel connected.
✂️ CUT, TEAR, LAYER & PLAY
Try a miniature collage using 2–3 paper pieces, an image, a painted mark and a word. Practise decoupage: choose, tear or cut, position, apply a thin layer of adhesive, smooth from the centre outwards and seal with decoupage medium.
Experiment with overlapping images and painting across their edges. Leave some open space!
📖 LET YOUR STORY UNFOLD
Make a concertina book that opens into one continuous artwork. Each fold can hold a moment, place, person or feeling.
Plan your pages, paint backgrounds and layer photographs, maps, paper and words. Repeat a line, colour, symbol or pattern across the folds to connect your story.
🏺 FROM STORY TO VASE
Reflect on what you enjoyed, discovered or found surprising. Choose imagery, colours, words and patterns from your book that could inspire a design wrapping around your Hamilton Vase.
You’ll leave with a folding visual story, practical mixed-media experience and ideas to develop further.
Your story can be real, imagined, symbolic or abstract. Share only what feels comfortable — you never have to explain your choices.
Join us this saturday 3rd October! Ask in store or email:
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