Places are limited and each course is carefully prepared. We encourage you to review our Terms & Conditions before booking. By booking, you agree to them and to the principles that shape our courses.
Seated lunch | Afternoon tea | Small-group
Led by Julia Blaker, Folk Artist and Painter specialising in cut-out and sculptural painted forms, with heritage context from Neil Crump, Founder of Asterion & Co.
Create a bold sculptural fruit triptych inspired by colour, rhythm and summer abundance.
Design and paint three connected fruit forms that will be laser-cut and box framed as a single artwork.
Take home a finished sculptural piece shaped by confident colour, pattern and composition.
𐡷𐫱𐡸
Spend the day moving between studio, conversation and creative play in this immersive mixed-media masterclass at The Old Vicarage.
Working from the rich visual language of summer fruit, you’ll explore still life as a subject filled with symbolism, pleasure and form. Guided by Julia Blaker’s distinctive folk-inspired approach, you’ll design and paint three separate but connected fruit forms conceived together as one sculptural composition.
Working on pre-gessoed wooden boards, you’ll be encouraged to move intuitively between the pieces, allowing colour, shape and pattern to echo across the set. The emphasis throughout is not realism, but character: simplified silhouettes, confident mark-making and a strong visual dialogue between the forms.
Asterion & Co. will frame the day with a short contextual session exploring fruit in historical still life painting and decorative arts, from abundance and symbolism to colour, domesticity and display. After the workshop, your painted forms will be professionally laser-cut and assembled into a single box-frame triptych.
What you will learn
Explore fruit as a still-life subject rich in symbolism and form
Develop confidence in colour, pattern and simplified composition
Learn how to create visual rhythm across multiple connected pieces
Work intuitively with shape, silhouette and painted surface
Understand how sculptural painted forms are developed and assembled
Create a coherent triptych designed for box-frame presentation
How the day unfolds
Warm welcome and introduction
Contextual session on fruit in still life and decorative art
Introduction to composition, colour and sculptural form
Morning studio session developing painted fruit panels
Seated seasonal lunch and time to pause
Afternoon refinement and compositional development
Final finishing touches and preparation for laser cutting and framing
What you’ll leave with
A completed painted fruit triptych professionally laser-cut and framed
Greater confidence in colour, composition and sculptural painting
A deeper understanding of still life and decorative form
A playful and restorative day of creative making
𐡷𐫱𐡸
Workshop Details
Date: Thursday 16th July 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: The Old Vicarage, Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset
Price: £295 per person
Includes: Full tuition, all prepared materials, laser cutting, box-frame presentation of your finished triptych, refreshments throughout the day, a seated seasonal lunch and afternoon tea
Booking terms
By booking, you are entering into an agreement with Asterion & Co. in accordance with our Terms & Conditions, including our cancellation policy and course guidelines.
This masterclass combines Julia Blaker’s distinctive folk-art practice with Asterion’s Heritage-Inspired Learning™ philosophy, creating a day of thoughtful making, colour exploration and sculptural creativity.
About Julia Blaker
Julia Blaker is a painter and folk artist known for her distinctive cut-out works that sit between painting, sculpture and illustration. Her practice is rooted in simplicity of form, strong colour relationships and a playful yet considered approach to subject matter.
Drawing on traditions of folk art, modernist abstraction and narrative still life, Julia encourages intuitive decision-making and confident expression through layered colour, shape and composition.
Read more about Julia in The Asterion Journal.
Need accommodation nearby?
Click here for a list of places to stay overnight before or after your course that we know well and would recommend.
Places are limited and each course is carefully prepared. We encourage you to review our Terms & Conditions before booking. By booking, you agree to them and to the principles that shape our courses.
Seated lunch | Afternoon tea | Small-group
Led by Julia Blaker, Folk Artist and Painter specialising in cut-out and sculptural painted forms, with heritage context from Neil Crump, Founder of Asterion & Co.
Create a bold sculptural fruit triptych inspired by colour, rhythm and summer abundance.
Design and paint three connected fruit forms that will be laser-cut and box framed as a single artwork.
Take home a finished sculptural piece shaped by confident colour, pattern and composition.
𐡷𐫱𐡸
Spend the day moving between studio, conversation and creative play in this immersive mixed-media masterclass at The Old Vicarage.
Working from the rich visual language of summer fruit, you’ll explore still life as a subject filled with symbolism, pleasure and form. Guided by Julia Blaker’s distinctive folk-inspired approach, you’ll design and paint three separate but connected fruit forms conceived together as one sculptural composition.
Working on pre-gessoed wooden boards, you’ll be encouraged to move intuitively between the pieces, allowing colour, shape and pattern to echo across the set. The emphasis throughout is not realism, but character: simplified silhouettes, confident mark-making and a strong visual dialogue between the forms.
Asterion & Co. will frame the day with a short contextual session exploring fruit in historical still life painting and decorative arts, from abundance and symbolism to colour, domesticity and display. After the workshop, your painted forms will be professionally laser-cut and assembled into a single box-frame triptych.
What you will learn
Explore fruit as a still-life subject rich in symbolism and form
Develop confidence in colour, pattern and simplified composition
Learn how to create visual rhythm across multiple connected pieces
Work intuitively with shape, silhouette and painted surface
Understand how sculptural painted forms are developed and assembled
Create a coherent triptych designed for box-frame presentation
How the day unfolds
Warm welcome and introduction
Contextual session on fruit in still life and decorative art
Introduction to composition, colour and sculptural form
Morning studio session developing painted fruit panels
Seated seasonal lunch and time to pause
Afternoon refinement and compositional development
Final finishing touches and preparation for laser cutting and framing
What you’ll leave with
A completed painted fruit triptych professionally laser-cut and framed
Greater confidence in colour, composition and sculptural painting
A deeper understanding of still life and decorative form
A playful and restorative day of creative making
𐡷𐫱𐡸
Workshop Details
Date: Thursday 16th July 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: The Old Vicarage, Leigh-on-Mendip, Somerset
Price: £295 per person
Includes: Full tuition, all prepared materials, laser cutting, box-frame presentation of your finished triptych, refreshments throughout the day, a seated seasonal lunch and afternoon tea
Booking terms
By booking, you are entering into an agreement with Asterion & Co. in accordance with our Terms & Conditions, including our cancellation policy and course guidelines.
This masterclass combines Julia Blaker’s distinctive folk-art practice with Asterion’s Heritage-Inspired Learning™ philosophy, creating a day of thoughtful making, colour exploration and sculptural creativity.
About Julia Blaker
Julia Blaker is a painter and folk artist known for her distinctive cut-out works that sit between painting, sculpture and illustration. Her practice is rooted in simplicity of form, strong colour relationships and a playful yet considered approach to subject matter.
Drawing on traditions of folk art, modernist abstraction and narrative still life, Julia encourages intuitive decision-making and confident expression through layered colour, shape and composition.
Read more about Julia in The Asterion Journal.
Need accommodation nearby?
Click here for a list of places to stay overnight before or after your course that we know well and would recommend.
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