Did you know you can visit the homes of the Bloomsbury group in Sussex?
If you have watched the BBC’s Life in Squares you may be interested in finding out more about this amazing group of creative people.
The Creative Cabin is very close to several locations that featured heavily within the lives of the this group – an influential group of English artists, writers, intellectuals & philosophers. Members of this important group included Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell and Lytton Strachey.
Book into the cabin for a weekend of culture and inspiration. About four miles away is Monk’s House the home of Virginia Woolf. The gardens and house offer a fascinating insight into the mind and creativity of Virginia Woolf. Her sister, Vanessa Bell lived at Charleston Farm, near Lewes. Many artists and writers visited here and Monks House during their stay.
Entering these homes is pure inspiration, there’s hand-painted furniture and wallpaper as well as the artist’s studios, looking as if untouched since they were last there.
The gardens at Charleston are walled cottage gardens with a distinct Arts and Crafts influence. Summer is a great time to visit to see the sculptural flowers in full bloom. The series Life in Squares was filmed here.
Feel free to explore these places at your own leisure or have the Creative Cabin owner take you on a grand tour which incorporates Monk’s House, Charleston Farmhouse and Berwick Church. If you’d like to do a tour at your own pace the owner can suggest lovely places to stop off for refreshments on the way!
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Character Animation with Adobe Character Animator and After Effects
Learn how to bring your artwork to life with a short course at Creative Cabin. You’ll learn how to set up your own artwork for animating in Adobe’s new Character Animator software. Learn the principles of animation and how to apply them to your characters. You’ll discover how to compose a scene and a storyboard as well as hundreds of tips and tricks for making compelling and enjoyable character animations. Book now to hold your place!
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After Effects course | Nick Kennedy
Motion Graphic Designer | TVN Berlin
I visited the Creative Cabin in December 2014 and spent two days learning After Effects with Angie Taylor. I have been using After effects for just over 5 years, in that time I had read lots of training books and used lots of online training resources and was at a point where I felt my work wasn’t really progressing. Then I heard about the bespoke training at Creative Cabin.
Before my visit I was able to discuss with Angie what I wanted to learn, showed her examples of work that inspired me and I wanted to be able to achieve a similar standard. Angie really covered every aspect and more, not only helping me improve my daily workflow but also a massive amount of tips and tricks that you don’t find an any books or you tube videos. This is where Angie’s experience really comes into its own, being able to ask questions on a one to one basis (and ask again when I didn’t quite understand), means my understanding of the motion design process and After Effects has greatly increased.
Additional to the time spent training with angie, the creative cabin has the added advantage that in the evening I could continue practising the aspects learnt during the day and new questions, which inevitably arrise, were answered the next day.
It was a very intensive two days, which I would highly recomend to everyone, Angie is a great trainer, really patient, and I think its great how she enjoys sharing her vast knowledege, and of course her very beautful home. And she’s a great cook! I recomend the meal options that Angie offers, not only does it save time (which can be spent after effecting) Angies currys taste great too!
So six months after my visit to the Creative Cabin, I have been asked to do a complete re-design of all the packaging for a daily show. I think this really is a sign that not only have I notice the improvements to my work but my Clients have too! Its always worth investing in education and my visit to the Creative Cabin is paying off for me already. Thanks Angie
Ted – Photographer from Brighton
Angie kindly gave me some 1-2-1 tuition on Lightroom. I am a hobby photographer who has changed over from 35mm film to digitial, but had not started to retouch my own images yet.
With Angie’s help, I now feel more confident with starting to retouch my own work. I know nothing about Lightroom before the tuition, so she was very patient with showing this newbie around the basic Lightroom functions.
I will be downloading Lightroom and playing with importing my new images, so that I can then get the hang of that, then I will be after another tuition session from Angie, concentrating more on the actual retouching side of things. The Creative Cabin is well recommended by me.
