Join Java Bere as part of Kitchen Tables for a playful drawing and mark-making workshop inspired by the everyday creativity of the kitchen.

Photo and styling: Java Bere

Using everyday ingredients and objects found on our tables as both tools and inspiration, this workshop invites you to explore still life through texture, line, and playful mark making — celebrating the beauty of the everyday and the joy of creating.

Taking the kitchen table and a curated arrangement of objects and ingredients as your still life, you’ll be encouraged to experiment freely with different materials and tools to create your own expressive responses to what you see and feel. This session is all about creative play, not about being ‘good’ at drawing. All levels welcome.

This workshop is part of our ‘Kitchen Tables’ workshop area – a space for exploring making connected to the many uses of our dining spaces, and what they mean to us.

About Java Bere

Java Bere is an artist, interior and table stylist, writer, and collector of stories. She grew up in a home full of stories and a family of colourful creatives between France, Scotland and the UK, with her daily life often centred around the table – whether it’s a makeshift trestle table, a coffee table found on a street corner, or a wooden cable reel drum repurposed as a dining table.

One of her earliest and most vivid memories of a table is watching her mother decorate the kitchen table with driftwood and a mountain of mangoes, pineapples and melons to celebrate a friend’s birthday – a moment that cemented the kitchen table as a space of creative play and possibility in her mind.

Java is fascinated by domestic rituals, the extraordinary within the everyday, and how creative expression can be found in small, often overlooked moments and objects. These themes are central to her practice as both an artist and workshop leader, with much of her work exploring ideas of home, life around the kitchen table, and the non-linear paths of creativity.

Her work has been featured by the BBC, 91 Magazine, TABLE Magazine and Heiter Magazine.