A mindful, alchemical ritual to open 2026 with intention
Date: 10am - 12pm on 31 December 2025.
Location: Shotover Park, Oxford. (Meet in the carpark)
Weather: Workshop will run outdoors; weather-dependent. I will email anyone who has booked if I need to cancel the workshop due to the weather but it will still run in light rain. Please dress appropriately.
Included: All materials, a bottle of ink, and a small sketchbook
Suitable for: Complete beginners and seasoned creatives alike
Step into the peace of Shotover Park on New Year’s Eve for a grounding, hands-on workshop centred on transformation, and creative ritual. This outdoor gathering invites you to make traditional oak gall ink from scratch, an ancient writing medium once used in manuscripts, legal documents, and letters that carried significance across centuries.
Here, the process becomes a symbolic act: oak offers the symbolism of longevity, fertility, abundance, rebirth, and renewal. Oak gall ink, in turn, is an alchemical material that darkens and deepens as it oxidises, mirroring the slow strengthening of intention over time.
This workshop is designed as a quiet threshold moment, a pause between years allowing you to begin 2026 with a material that continues to evolve long after the session ends.
Using this ink throughout 2026 in journals, creative notes, letters, or ritual writing becomes an ongoing act of self-witnessing and personal evolution.
In this gentle, practical session you will:
Learn the history and alchemy behind oak gall ink
Prepare a group batch on site, using traditional materials
Bottle your freshly made ink to take home
Receive a small sketchbook for testing and exploring your ink immediately
Take part in a simple intention-setting ritual for the year ahead
Enjoy the winter landscape of Shotover Park (weather permitting)
Join this small, intentional gathering and begin the year with a material that holds history, symbolism, and transformation within every drop.
A mindful, alchemical ritual to open 2026 with intention
Date: 10am - 12pm on 31 December 2025.
Location: Shotover Park, Oxford. (Meet in the carpark)
Weather: Workshop will run outdoors; weather-dependent. I will email anyone who has booked if I need to cancel the workshop due to the weather but it will still run in light rain. Please dress appropriately.
Included: All materials, a bottle of ink, and a small sketchbook
Suitable for: Complete beginners and seasoned creatives alike
Step into the peace of Shotover Park on New Year’s Eve for a grounding, hands-on workshop centred on transformation, and creative ritual. This outdoor gathering invites you to make traditional oak gall ink from scratch, an ancient writing medium once used in manuscripts, legal documents, and letters that carried significance across centuries.
Here, the process becomes a symbolic act: oak offers the symbolism of longevity, fertility, abundance, rebirth, and renewal. Oak gall ink, in turn, is an alchemical material that darkens and deepens as it oxidises, mirroring the slow strengthening of intention over time.
This workshop is designed as a quiet threshold moment, a pause between years allowing you to begin 2026 with a material that continues to evolve long after the session ends.
Using this ink throughout 2026 in journals, creative notes, letters, or ritual writing becomes an ongoing act of self-witnessing and personal evolution.
In this gentle, practical session you will:
Learn the history and alchemy behind oak gall ink
Prepare a group batch on site, using traditional materials
Bottle your freshly made ink to take home
Receive a small sketchbook for testing and exploring your ink immediately
Take part in a simple intention-setting ritual for the year ahead
Enjoy the winter landscape of Shotover Park (weather permitting)
Join this small, intentional gathering and begin the year with a material that holds history, symbolism, and transformation within every drop.
