About Milkwood

Milkwood was designed as peaceful, minimalist artist studio in order to share the creative potential that the right space has the capacity to bring.

WHO’S IT FOR?

  • A black wooden house with large glass windows. Inside, there is a dining table and chairs, with a hanging paper lantern visible. Outside, there is a grassy area with various plants and trees, including a birch tree with white bark and green leaves. A cream-colored fabric is draped over a tree branch outside the window.

    Curious Beginners

    For those seeking their creative outlet and who are curious to try something new, Milkwood is a creative hub of events, workshops and experiences. Check out our monthly calendar of events.

  • People sitting at a long dining table preparing to make or eat mooncakes, with candles, flowers, and small decorative items on the table in a cozy, warmly lit room.

    Ceramics Workshops & Hand-Building

    If you have been wanting to start pottery, you’ve found the right place! Founder & Ceramics Artist Tash Fry runs her unique ceramics practice out of Milkwood Studio. Explore her workshops on our Experiences page.

  • Someone painting a colorful abstract watercolor scene with flowers on paper, with a small pottery vase in the foreground.

    Professional Artists, Makers & Creatives

    If you’re a professional creative, Milkwood is your new go-to space to host your next big project. See our Hire Milkwood Studio page to see what Milkwood can offer you.

  • Group of people socializing indoors with drinks around a table with glassware and a pitcher, warm lighting, wooden interior.

    Creative Community

    For those searching for a supportive creative community & a more creative way of living, Milkwood fosters a community of like-minded creative souls

An interior view of a room with a large window showing a garden outside. The room has a beige ceiling and walls, a hanging light fixture, and tiled floors. There are small pots on the window sill, a mirror leaning against the wall, a broom, and a potted plant. 
● the story

Milkwood Studio is a creative studio based just outside of Winchester. It was founded and designed by Tash Fry, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans interior architecture & design, ceramics, set design, styling and food.

Trained in interior architecture, yet drawn toward set design and installation art, Tash found herself navigating a space between disciplines - one that wasn’t always clearly defined, or easily understood. Milkwood was created to bridge that gap. A space for everyone where ideas could move freely between disciplines, that didn’t have to be conventional or make sense.

Rooted in the tones, textures, and gentle landscape of the South Downs, the studio draws from the natural environment that has long shaped Tash’s artistic language. Soft, tonal palettes, raw finishes, and a considered use of materials create a space that feels like the intersection between nature and architecture.

● About the build

Milkwood Studio sits at the intersection between natural and built worlds, embedded within the landscape so that you feel as if you are sunken and at one with your surroundings. Birch trees stretch upwards from every window, pine wood lines the doors and frames the windows, the walls are bare plaster, and the warm stone floor offers a practical and beautiful solution.

Tash designed the studio with flexibility at its core. Every element has been intentionally chosen to allow the space to shift between uses - able to hold everything from intimate making to large-scale installation, both now and in the years to come.

Natural light played a key role in the design narrative - an essential tool that artists really can’t work without. The intention behind the design was to create a fluid, gentle space with a minimal floor plan so that it can be ever-evolving. Its materiality uses only natural materials including wood, plaster & ceramic to maintain its dialogue to its natural, wilder surroundings.

The original cor-ten steel frame of the garage building that sat in Milkwood’s place before was preserved and now exists as a pergola containing an outdoor dining space that speaks to and honours the site’s historic narrative.

A backyard garden with a small pond, lush green grass, trees, and a black shed with a metal roof. Sunlight filters through the leaves, creating a peaceful outdoor scene. 
● The Vision for milkwood

Milkwood is not fixed in its function, it is a space where art worlds and people alike can intersect and come together to create things that are truly unique.

The studio’s aim is simply to nurture creativity, & thus build artistic community, by providing creatives of all stages and skill-levels with a space to simply execute their ideas. Whether that’s a professional company, or someone who just wants to make art for themselves, Milkwood is that space to finally make it happen.

Milkwood can be hired as a location house for production, shoots, events and more. It is the perfect backdrop for your creative visions to come to life.

Milkwood also runs a unique programme of events including ceramic workshops & creative experiences. These workshops offer a place for people reconnect with the simple act of creating, quiet, and sitting in full presence.

Explore Milkwood Events
Explore Milkwood Events