Workshops
2025 Workshop Dates & Locations
Thursday, 30th January 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - Dreaming Your Garden
Barbican Library, London, UK
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Tuesday, 18th February 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - (Almost) Ikebana
Somerset House, London, UK
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Saturday, 8th March 2025
Your Drawing Nature: Drawing and zine-making workshop
Mutty, Castiglione delle Stiviere, IT
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Thursday, 20th March 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
Garden Museum, London, UK
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Thursday, 27th March 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Somerset House, London, UK
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Wednesday, 2nd April 2025
Drawing Workshop on the occasion of Community Resilience - Creativity and The Climate Emergency
Oxford Friends Meeting House, Oxford, UK
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Wednesday, 16th April 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
The Serge Hill Project, near Bedmond, UK
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Sunday, 20th April 2025
Light as a Butterfly - A Drawing & Making Workshop
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK
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Thursday, 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd May 2025, a four-week course
Creatives in Publishing: Binding a Path to Being Published and Self-Publishing
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 3rd May 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Sunday, 11th May 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club
Garden of The Methodist Church, Watlington, UK
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Saturday, May 31st 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, UK
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Saturday, 7th June 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 14th June 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
Henley Library, Henley-on-Thames, UK
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Wednesday, 18th June 2025
A creative workshop on the occasion of A Safe Green Space: Nature and Play
The Serge Hill Project, near Bedmond, UK
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Saturday, 28th June 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Mutty, Castiglione delle Stiviere, IT
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Saturday, 12th July 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Thursday, 17th July 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - (Almost) Ikebana
Garden Museum, London, UK
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Saturday, 19th July 2025
Mapping The Garden
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Thursday, 28th August 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Seed Saving
Taith Cofee, Lewes, UK
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Sunday, 31st August 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - (Almost) Ikebana 15
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK
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Saturday, 6th September 2025
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Friday, 14th November 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - (Almost) Ikebana 16
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
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Thursday, 27th November 2025
The Gardening Drawing Club - (Almost) Ikebana 17
The Serge Hill Project, near Bedmond, UK
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Past
Click here to view the list of 2024 workshops.
Click here to view the list of 2023 workshops.
Click here to view the list of 2022 workshops.
Creative workshops - including natural dyes, drawing, painting, gardening, textile explorations and self-publishing - have taken place on invitation or been initiated since 2017 in various cultural institutions and independent spaces internationally and nationally including Bow Arts, Camden Art Centre, Garden Museum, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Horniman Museum & Garden, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich, Southbank Centre, Southwark Park Galleries, The Hepworth Wakefield, Design Museum and Whitechapel Gallery.
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck's approach to ideating and facilitating engaging workshops frequently includes a multisensorial aspect infused with enthusiasm, often beginning the session with a hot cup of organic herbal tea and a walk/breathing exercise. Through her workshops, conceptualised as calming and playful, the artist transmits skills and aims to nurture the participants while also developing their sensibilities.
On the invitation of Camden Art Centre and in collaboration with a local primary school, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck has ideated and developed a 2022/23 year-long learning programme based around the themes of Joy and Togetherness. Throughout the year, every pupil at the school from year one through to six will participate in the project based around interacting with and understanding the natural world.
Johanna founded The Gardening Drawing Club in 2021. Between Spring 2022 and June 2025, 1732 adults and children participated in the workshops she planned and facilitated via The Gardening Drawing Club. This positive community engagement project is ongoing.
Please use the contact page to discuss a workshop in relation to your space and / or cultural agenda. These shared ateliers, a time with a practicing artist, can be directed towards audiences of all age groups, including adults and children, and can facilitated in languages including English, French and German.
The photographs below are outtakes of past workshops in England, France, Japan and Korea (2017 - 2023).
