Creative workshops for schools and groups
Mosaic is central to Carolyn's work, but not the limit of it. Carolyn runs workshops using mixed media, collage, and tactile materials including ceramic, pebble, feathers, brick, wood, bark, and found objects, shaped around season, place, and the people involved.
Carolyn Ash creates mosaic, mixed media, collage, and tactile making workshops designed around the age of the group, the character of the setting, and what people will actually enjoy making.
Mosaic remains a primary medium, though not the only one. Projects may use ceramics, pebbles, feathers, wood, brick fragments, paper, found materials, or combinations of them, depending on the brief and the people taking part.
The work is hands-on and materially direct. It is not plinkity-plonk. It gives children and groups something real to do, something tangible to understand, and often something lasting to live with afterwards.
How we work
Workshops are shaped with the school, group, or organiser, not merely dropped in as a generic package.
Carolyn has worked with a wide range of people and diverse needs, including SEN. Sessions can be adapted for age, pace, confidence, support needs, and available time.
Tailored
Projects can be one-off sessions, short runs, shared panels, commemorative pieces, or longer collaborative works.
Adaptable
Workshops can be adjusted for smaller groups, mixed-age settings, SEN, or quieter supported making.
Grounded
The work is rooted in materials, seasonality, place, and the actual interests of the people taking part.
Formats
Workshops can be shaped as one-off visits, seasonal activities, focused skill sessions, collaborative school projects, or quieter structured making for smaller groups.
Mosaic
ceramic-based making for individual pieces, shared panels, or lasting artworks for classrooms, corridors, gardens, or communal spaces.
Mixed Media
Layered making using collage, surface play, and unusual materials including pebble, wood, brick, paper, and found objects.
Seasonal
Workshops shaped by time of year, school calendar, local ecology, festivals, harvests, weather, and changing colour in the landscape.
SEN
Carolyn can adapt process, pace, and expectation to suit different support needs and different ways of engaging with materials and tasks.
Schools & Groups
Suitable for schools, homeschoolers, youth groups, community groups, and mixed-age settings where people want to make something worthwhile together.
See the process
From first drawing to making and installation, these projects let children and groups see how attention, patience, and material decisions become a finished piece.
Who it suits
- Primary schools wanting practical creative work with real materials.
- Homeschoolers wanting structured making with depth, focus, and character.
- SEN settings needing adaptable pace, process, and expectations.
- Community and mixed-age groups wanting shared making or commemorative work.
- Projects shaped by seasonality, local culture, and different traditions of making.
Carolyn works with a broad range of people and contexts. The common thread is simple: people who want to make something real, worthwhile, and shared.
Interested?
If you are a school, homeschool group, or organiser and want to discuss a workshop, a collaborative project, or a seasonal idea, get in touch and we can work out what fits the people, the place, and the time available.