BLESMA Art & Crafts Retreat at Little Wolds Escapes

This May Fiona, Ingrid and Pru spent a wonderful 2 days with the lovely people from BLESMA. This incredible charity support limbless veterans and set up this relaxing, supportive and nurturing Arts & Crafts Retreat right here in East Yorkshire. The Little Wolds Escapes, in Southburn near Driffield, a 2024 REYTA award winner, was the … Read more

REYTA Trophies 2024

We are so proud to have again been asked to create the wonderful and highly prized REYTA Trophies this year. Our amazing artist, Ingrid Holborn, has been creating beautiful glass pieces inspire by the City, Coast and Country of Hull and East Yorkshire. Her unique works will be  handed to winners at the Awards ceremony … Read more

Mmm! What’s coming up this Autumn?

Mmm! We’ve been cooking up a new series of Crafty Tuesdays in partnership with the Zoo Cafe…Monthly Tuesdays 10-2pm. Crafts, Zoo Food, Quizzes, Competitions & Prizes…..Watch this space for more details…

Artist Collaborations – New Work

Our resident photograher Nadine Storrer and guest artist Fiona Caley met last week for a little beachcombing, coffee and tactile impressions. Building on our Interkultur Trophies project Nadine is working on a new commission for Vhey in partnership with Fiona and a local potter to create new work.  We’re very excited to see what they … Read more

CRAFTY TUESDAYS – SPRINGTIME…

HOT OFF THE PRESS – Our Spring workshop programme at Pilates Avenue…Tuesdays 1-3pm. Join Deb & Alwyn for a different Craft workshop each week. Taught in small groups, this booking is for all 10 classes for £90 or you can choose from 6 for £55 or  our 4 for £40 option. Unfilled classes can be booked … Read more

Basketry in East Yorkshire…

August 2022 course Our Basketry series continued with a group of us making Round Willow Baskets this Saturday… Using different coloured willow, plenty of snipping, weaving, biscuits and coffee we had a fun day and made some pretty cool baskets… And there’s more to come…see below! Baskets from the May 2022 course Basketry & Willow … Read more

Fused Glass Returns to Traenerhus!

2 years ago, the night before the world changed, we ran our last Fused Glass workshop…now it’s back. Group bookings can be arranged to suit you and your friends/ family, from £25 pp.  Email us at traenerhus@gmail.com  

Round Willow Baskets

Such a lovely day today making round willow baskets with different coloured willow. They all look amazing. You guys are the best! 😉  We’ll be posting our upcoming Willow & Rush workshops soon…. Join our mailing list to be the first to hear about our upcoming workshops in & around Hull…