Adult art and craft workshop led by restorer Amelia Bedson to learn Dutch gold leaf gilding on Christmas ornaments or walnuts.
Amelia Bedson is leading a festive gilding workshop at Ferens Art Gallery on Sunday 29 November, from 11.15am to 3.15pm. It's part of the gallery's series of adult art and craft workshops for Autumn 2026, all held in the Create Gallery, a dedicated studio space right in the heart of the building.
Bedson is a professional restorer with a Masters in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, and she also runs the gallery's Contemporary Kintsugi workshop, which fuses the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi with modern methods. In this session, she'll teach the art of laying Dutch gold leaf, and you get to choose what you work on: a large free-standing Christmas ornament, a hanging decoration, or a real walnut.
Gilding walnuts is a Victorian Christmas tradition that's been cherished for over a century. The Victorians turned them into delicate decorations for fireplaces and Christmas trees, and they often tucked secret messages inside to be opened on New Year's Day. It's a small, specific custom that this workshop brings back into the present, and you'll walk away with something you've made yourself.
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The session runs from 11.15am to 3.15pm on Sunday 29 November at the Ferens Art Gallery in the Create Gallery workshop studio, and tickets are £79.
