Interested in learning how to make your own encaustic tiles?
Discover the process of medieval encaustic tile making through a hands-on workshop suitable for beginners, families, schools, museums, and heritage organisations.
During this workshop you will be able to design and create your own wooden stamp to be used to press into clay to make your own encaustic tiles - a critically endangered medieval inlaid craft process featured on Heritage Crafts critically endangered Red List.
Workshops are designed to be welcoming and accessible, with no previous experience required. Rather than focusing on creating a perfect object, sessions emphasise material engagement, individual creativity, and discovering how historical craft techniques can inspire contemporary ideas as a reflective and expressive process.
Encaustic tiles are artefacts of the lives of those who came before us, and we can project ourselves onto them and them onto us.
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My approach:
My workshops are centred on hands-on participation, encouraging people to learn through making rather than observation. Participants create their own designs or scenes using modular shapes inspired by medieval iconography, before transforming these designs into handmade encaustic tiles through the inlay process.
I intentionally break down this historical craft into approachable stages, allowing participants to experiment with the materials and develop their own visual language. Rather than replicating medieval designs, they are encouraged to interpret them through their own experiences, creating personal narratives that make the history feel relevant and alive.
These principles translate naturally to family audiences. I see historical craft not simply as something to preserve, but as a means of bringing people together through shared making, storytelling, and creativity. Children and adults can design mythical creatures together, invent stories, explore medieval imagery, and contribute individual tiles to a larger collaborative artwork; discovering history through collective making rather than simply observing it.