About Artcycle

Workshops for all

Adult workshops

Our friendly sessions introduce the potential of working with single materials, where you can begin your own journey to something amazing. Working across local towns to help those socialise and reconnect through creativity. The perfect prescription tonic.

Groups, clubs and school

Create an orchestra with bottle guitars or build a crisp packet den. The potential is endless. Invite our craft recyclers to your enrichment project and we can demonstrate how to handle waste in a meaningful way and explain the purpose of a circular-economy.

During November term time Artcycle are launching a brand-new learning programme for families, aiming to provide a vibrant and child-led space. Enjoy four sessions focussing on design and crafting with single-stream materials. Book here.

Home education workshops

Special events

Step inside our pop-up star tent of creativity (summer only). Artcycle supply everything for an enchanting and sustainable alternative for a party together. With zero-waste, endless imagination for a hen do, children's party or an excuse to get together.

School holidays

Little Makers, Junior Re:Shapers and Teen Reshapers join together for a riot of creative freedom when schools are out! We allow children space to share ideas, make friends, and grow in confidence through hands-on practical artistry.

We offer support through activities such as: can crushing; plastic shredding; and litter foraging. By bridging destruction and creation children experience stewardship in a calm and nurturing space when time-out from the system is needed.

Emotional support referrals

Meet the team

We are a family that began to help put an end to the mess in our towns, meet the crafty recyclers.

Combining my graphic design experience and gift of operating a stationery business—plus an unexpected love for litter picking—I’ve found a mission: to empower people, (especially youngsters), to be creative and entrepreneurial.

There’s so much untapped potential in rescued materials. By sparking imagination, we can reshape how we think about consumption and step into our purpose to flourish.

Whilst I walk my dog in my home town of Portchester, I see the mess hiding in our hedgerows and bushes. Our world is filled with God-blessed abundance. The good news is that by reshaping waste into wonder, we can flip problems into solutions.

Claire Turner

Artwork created by Sharon Campbell

Sharon Campbell

There’s no piece of 'waste' I can’t transform. Whether it’s an old bean can, broken crockery, once-loved furniture or even a stained T-shirt. As a child I found so much joy in art and crafts, and turning an ordinary item into something fresh and unique. As a mother of four, my patience has enabled me to juggle ideas whilst entertaining my tribe. And I’ve learned to see potential rather than waste—and that mindset fuels my passion as a craft recycler.

For me, recycling isn’t just about reducing waste; it’s about sparking creativity. My goal now is to help others unlock their own design potential, encouraging them to look at everyday objects through a fresh, untapped lens of possibility.

Jolanta Januszewski

I have been knitting since the age of 10—needles in hand for almost 30 years—and combining 20 years as a graphic designer, I have found joy in stepping away from screens to be creative with my hands. Whether it’s knitting, macramé, or up cycling forgotten objects, I delight in giving materials a second life.

I especially love crafting imaginative projects with my young daughter, using recycled bits and natural treasures gathered on city or nature walks. Once its original purpose has passed—anything can be transformed into something playful, beautiful, or unexpected. For me, creative play isn’t just for children—it’s a lifelong adventure for anyone with a curious heart.

Sophia Harding

My aim is to inspire peers to see waste not as a problem, but as possibility. I recently qualified as a wooden boat builder where I learnt practical, problem-solving and witnessed the potential of wood and its miraculous properties to enable the creation from magnificent tree into beautiful seafaring craft.

Like the mustard seed, I know that all change starts small—with one idea, one act, one piece of someone else's rubbish reimagined and reshaped. Through our practical workshops, and as the youngest team member I can share the message of stewardship, responsibility and appreciation of all we have been blessed with.

Single-stream projects

Card and paper

Sessions include ebru marble printing, block printing, paper-making and book binding, bead-making and neurographia art. Gentle 2D and 3D creative activities.

Mixed metals

Deconstructing soda-cans ends in a something new and unique! Reshaping and embossing patterns and painting, creating beautiful trinkets to admire. Participants discover surprising results.

Plastics

Plastics are reimagined into bold new ideas. It begins with litter picking—because nothing goes to waste. An ordinary plastic bottle or crisp packet can be reshaped and transformed.

Textiles

Easy-to-follow macramé and finger knitting reveal the hidden potential of an old T-shirt, reimagined into accessories or decorations with a surprising twist of delight.

Customer reviews

Transforming trash into treasure.

Artcycle came to visit my Girls' Brigade group last week and our girls and young women (and the leaders!) loved it. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed turning plastic bottles into jellyfish, flowers or earrings and came up with some really beautiful creations, as we thought about looking after the planet and its resources better. Thank you so much!

8th Portsmouth Girls Brigade

★★★★★

I am stunned by what we created
at your event at Hordean Community Centre. Such an inspiring day.

★★★★★

Susan Tucker