Workshops
2026 Workshop Dates & Locations
(Please scroll down for information on Johanna’s approach to workshop-ing)JANUARY
Thursday, 22nd January 2026
Your Drawing Nature
Malda, Kyoto, JP
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Saturday, 24th January 2026
Your Drawing Nature
Nidi Gallery, Tokyo, JP
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Saturday, 31st January 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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FEBRUARY
Saturday, 7th February 2026
Zine Making Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Wednesdays, 11th, 18th, 25th February and 4th March 2026, 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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Thursday, 12th February 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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MARCH
Thursday, 12th March 2026
Paper in Artist Publishing Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 14th March 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Thursday, 19th March 2026
The Gardening Drawing Club: Creating Your Gardening Club
Garden Museum, London, UK
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Saturday, 21st March 2026
Getting started with your Botanical Dyes Garden Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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APRIL
Saturday, 11th April 2026
Seasonal Botanical Dyes Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 18th April 2026
Zine Making Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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MAY
Wednesdays, 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th May 2026, 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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Sunday, 17th May 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 30th May 2026
Zine Making Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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JUNE
Thursday, 4th June 2026
Paper in Artist Publishing Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Friday, 5th June 2026
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
A House for Artists, Barking, UK
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Sunday, 7th June 2026
Getting started with your Botanical Dyes Garden Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Thursday, 11th June 2026
Sensory Sensitivity & Visual Impairment In Print Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 13th June 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Saturday, 20th June 2026
Nature Drawing & Zine Making Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Monday, 29th June 2026
Your Drawing Nature
Yūkari Studio, Helsinki, FI
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JULY
Thursday, 2nd July 2026
The Gardening Drawing Club - The Basics of Planting
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK
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Saturday, 11th July 2026
Seasonal Botanical Dyes Workshop
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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Sunday, 26th July 2026
Introduction to Natural Dyes
Camden Art Centre, London, UK
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AUGUST
Wednesday, 12th August 2026
The Gardening Drawing Club
The Serge Hill Project, UK
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Past
Click here to view the list of 2025 workshops.
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.
ABOUT JOHANNA’S WORKSHOPS
Creative workshops - including natural dyes, drawing, painting, gardening, textile explorations and publishing - have taken place on invitation or been initiated since 2017 in various cultural institutions and independent spaces internationally and nationally.
With a vibrant passion for sharing and a commitment to community engagement and sustainable practices, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck has the experience, enthusiasm, and skills to plan and facilitate workshops and to develop and deliver engaging, inclusive, accessible, and environmentally friendly creative learning programmes for adults and children.
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, V&A Academy, Somerset House, William Morris House, The Ashmolean Museum and Whitechapel Gallery are part of the British art institutions with which she has worked.
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. and gently carving spaces for conversations.
Johanna founded The Gardening Drawing Club in 2021. Between Spring 2022 and March 2026, 1918 adults and children participated in the workshops she planned and facilitated via The Gardening Drawing Club. This positive community engagement project, rooted in deep ecology and the Oculus Horti Hypothesis, is ongoing.
Johanna believes in and practices a form of environmental education that includes extensive experimental learning, allowing participants to touch the soil, see the insects, feel time move differently than on a screen, appreciate what may be overlooked, and be with one another.
Johanna has Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH) training and was certified Carbon Literate by The Carbon Literacy Project in 2024. She also holds an enhanced DBS and has been a guest lecturer to the BA and MA Fine Art Students at Oxford Brookes University in 2024 and 2025.
While based in England, Johanna had also planned and facilitated workshops in France, Italy, Japan and Korea.
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 practising artist, can be directed towards audiences of all ages, including adults and children, and can be facilitated in English, French and German.
The photographs below are outtakes of past workshops in England, France, Japan and Korea (2017 - 2023).
