Archives for October 2016

A Present Even a Mother-in-Law Can Love

Just in time for Christmas, we are delighted to announce our new class in partnership with local photographer Jane Cox. A beautiful family picture is a Christmas treasure (one even a mother-in-law can love!). Jane will help you achieve the ultimate family photo to share with your extended family, and to really set your Christmas cards apart this year.

Jane will focus on the basics that are often overlooked in today’s selfie generation: set design and lighting; understanding your SLR’s features (exposure, aperture, shutter speed, etc.); and provide top tips on improving your pictures.

In order to ensure the highest quality of instruction, we are keeping this class very small. Jane wants the session to be very intimate and highly interactive, and this can only be achieved with a small class size.

Don’t delay your booking as places are extremely limited. Click here to register!

Announcing: Our New Partnership with TheDecorCafe

We are delighted to announce our new partnership with local design community, TheDecorCafe!

This membership association is comprised of interior design experts offering their skills in a series of workshops, training classes and events to educate and inspire local residents to refresh and renew their own home. Their experts cover a wide variety of design, with just a few examples being Architects, Art & Ceramics, Entertaining, Food & Flowers, Lighting, and even Garden Design.

The team have also recently set up DecorBuddy, a bite-size approach to interior design to help you make the most of your home. Room makeover packages include colours, fabrics, curtains, design layouts, lighting and more, and start from a very reasonable £195.00.

We look forward to a long and happy relationship with this thriving community!

Explore: What is Mindful Yoga?

Yoga

Yoga

We are all busy. Spouses, children, parents, friends, family – everyone has a set of balls they’re juggling in the air. Sometimes all this juggling means that we do not take time for ourselves, to refresh, to breathe.

Ali Gilling has been practising spiritual yoga for more than 20 years. Travelling extensively around the world, Ali pursued her own spiritual development and began offering holidays, retreats and workshops. She expertly weaves mindfulness into her classes, presenting yoga in a relaxed and encouraging manner.

Under Ali’s careful and expert guidance, students are given an opportunity to explore a mindfulness practise through movement, breath and body. Her sessions explore all the different aspects of mindfulness and meditation through gently stretching the body. Ali will give you exercises to continue your breathing and meditation at home, ensuring that you have the tools you need to relate the practises to your daily life.

 

Announcing: Our First Interior Design Morning!

Date: 9th November 2016

Time: 9.30-11.45am

Venue: Extreme Kitchen Design, 145 Church Road, Barnes SW13 9HR

We are beyond excited to announce our partnership with The DecorCafe, a local community group focussed on educating you with the skills and information you need to transform your home.

This first morning session will be open to DecorCafe members as well as Barnes Class clients. Hosted by our friends Extreme Design in their elegant Barnes showroom, this session is perfect for you and a friend – you’ll learn how to make the most of your home!

All about discovering new ideas and building your skills and knowledge, The DecorCafe home experts will share their experience to make it easier, more fun and enjoyable for you to create your home.

Whether you are embarking on a full scale renovation project or would just like to refresh the look of a room, you and your friend will leave inspired with new information to help you progress.

This event will comprise:

  • A talk filled with ideas and helpful advice for every room in the house
  • A look at a selection of lovely colours, wallpapers and fabrics
  • Time to share ideas and experience
  • A Q&A with the experts to get feedback on your project

You’ll also enjoy a presentation from Anne-Marie Taylor, who will give a short talk on interior design tips and ideas for creating a more individual and personal home.

Places at this unique event are extremely limited so don’t delay your booking!

BOOK NOW!

 

Our Autumn Retrospective

Here at Barnes Class, we are thrilled to be constantly updating our diary with terrific new classes for our wonderful community. This autumn has been no exception! We have hosted courses across many venues, including joining our friends at The Bulls Head, and have seen a great mix of students, some returning as well as brand new. As our lineup for the season begins to wind down, we’re taking a look back at some of the fun we’ve had this September.

This week marks the final class for our Mindful Yoga course with longtime yoga instructor Ali Gilling. Ali’s enthusiasm for her students and for her practice is so evident in every event she holds! She teaches not only traditional yoga poses, but instills mindfulness and meditation alongside the physical aspects of her teaching. We are so pleased to have her continually return to Barnes Class to share her passion.

Another Barnes Class teacher joined us this September with her hit course Introduction to Photography. Jane Cox is a local resident working as a professional photographer, providing family portraits and wedding shots just to name a few. Her class is all about inclusion- Jane loves helping beginners and is passionate about photography in many forms, whether it be behind the lens of a professional camera or simply mobile phone snaps. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Jane this September, you can read the full interview here.

We’ve had incredible feedback from our new Perfectly Potty class with Mellie Alexander. All the students say that Mellie is delightful and a great teacher, able to take brand new students to pot throwers in no time! Check out some of their work on our Facebook page.

Our last September offering is currently in its final week, and we could not be more excited to view the results. Esteemed artist Michael Ajerman once again has brought art to life with his Drawing with Colour class, this time with a twist. Michael’s autumn course used David Hockney’s 82 Portraits and 1 Still Life, currently on exhibit at the Royal Academy, as a guide for learning. The beautiful exhibition helped inspire Michael’s students and offered them many different portrait styles to try out. Needless to say, we think the results will be spectacular!

If you did not get a chance to join us this autumn, we look forward to seeing you in the spring! We are constantly updating our web presence with new and exciting class bookings; we hope to see you at a Barnes Class soon!

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“All in all a pretty perfect way to spend a Friday morning in Barnes – looking forward to trying out some other classes! ” – Sally Stephens, Barnes

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