Join artist and designer Gillian Arnold for a fun and inspiring lampshade masterclass. Gillian has been designing, printing and making lampshades professionally for over 15 years, and will be sharing her skills, experience and professional tips throughout the session.

Working from hundreds of beautifully curated, nature-inspired vintage motifs, you will create your own unique fabric design, print it onto specialist lightbox-effect satin fabric, and make it into a professionally finished lampshade to take home.

Gillian will guide you step by step, helping you build a balanced and visually striking design using colour, composition, scale and layout. The lightbox-effect fabric shows the full colour saturation of your design when the lampshade is lit, making the colours rich, vibrant and beautifully glowing.

Once your fabric has been printed, you will learn how to turn it into a finished lampshade using a professional construction method.

You will leave with:

• A lampshade designed, printed and made by you
• Practical design and composition skills
• An understanding of fabric printing for interiors
• Confidence in a professional lampshade-making method

For a small additional fee, there is also the option to upgrade to a complete table lamp with light fitting, ready to switch on at home.

All materials are provided, including your lampshade frame, printed fabric, making materials and full access to Gillian’s extensive motif library.

This workshop works beautifully with the cushion printing workshop to create matching interior products unique to youSuitable for beginners, confident crafters and anyone who loves interiors, textiles, pattern and print.

About the Tutor

Gillian Arnold is a designer maker and founder of an established design brand producing jewellery and interiors collections. Working across anodised aluminium jewellery and printed textiles, her practice centres around colour, surface pattern, and material exploration.

Over the past 15 years, Gillian has developed collections distributed nationally and internationally, combining artistic experimentation with commercially successful production methods. She now shares the knowledge and techniques refined through years of professional practice, offering participants valuable insight into both creative process and sustainable design business experience.

Design, Print and Make Your Own Lampshade