This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.

Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.

Please note this is an afternoon only session for this week.

On the second Friday of January 2025 the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)

A Christmas Special with goodies, mince pies and mulled wine to feel festive!

Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.

Join us for an immersive full-day experience and discover the art of traditional leaded stained glass, as used in cathedrals, churches and houses across the UK. Led by an experienced instructor and artist, learn traditional techniques and craft your own leaded panel to hang in a window or for display in the garden.

This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.

Inspired by the artist Elouise Renouf we will create collaged and printed trees in a landscape using painted papers, paint and printing methods.

On the first Friday of every month the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)

Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home! In this workshop, we will be looking at linocuts of animals and you will be creating your own.

Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.

A fun workshop making decorations for use on the tree or around the home for this festive season. You will make and take home two small reindeer and two stars – and possibly more! These small decorations make adorable displays or perhaps as gifts for family and friends.

All items will be made out of willow (with possibly a little extra foliage or decoration).

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

On this one-day course, you will experiment with a rich variety of materials and mediums to make vibrant and colourful collage papers that we will then use to decorate a simple handmade paper sketchbook.

Join our pre-Christmas ceramic workshop to learn, create, and discover the joy of pottery! Create a pair of Quirky Penguins or make a Quirky Penguin tealight holder, using stoneware clay.

Join us for an immersive full-day experience and discover the art of traditional leaded stained glass, as used in cathedrals, churches and houses across the UK. Led by an experienced instructor and artist, learn traditional techniques and craft your own leaded panel to hang in a window or for display in the garden.

Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

Come and create a beautiful bird out of willow. Bird sculptures are fun to make using recently cut and buff willow. The starting point for a sculpture is the framework, followed by free weave technique. This workshop is suitable for newcomers to willow weaving and those with some experience.

Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home! In this workshop, we will be looking at linocuts of animals and you will be creating your own.

Cordell Garfield’s ‘Exploring Colour’ is an exciting one day workshop exploring colour theory and the application of colour. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists in understanding colour.

Join Anne for this fun session where you will design and make a colourful and sparkly large fused glass star which will be ready for you to hang in your home in time for the festive season.

All tools and materials are included, as well as a wide range of glass types and colours to make your piece with. You will receive expert tuition and guidance to help you put your design into practice.

This session is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, apologies for any inconvenience. Please do join the December session.

On the first Friday of every month the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)

Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

We welcome back the talented Cordell Garfield to run another full day’s portraiture workshop. Cordell teaches a step by step process to create a portrait from a photographic reference. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists.

FULLY BOOKED

This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org

Would you like to learn how to weave a natural willow basket?  An ideal shape for flowers and herbs in the garden. Come and enjoy a few hours in our beautiful space at Yardley Arts and learn a new skill. This sweet basket is suitable for newcomers to willow weaving and those with some experience.

Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home! In this workshop, we will be looking at linocuts of animals and you will be creating your own.

During this workshop you will create an expressive painting bursting with light and radiant colour, capturing a glimpse of  a charming group of birds.

Join us for an immersive full-day experience and discover the art of traditional leaded stained glass, as used in cathedrals, churches and houses across the UK. Led by an experienced instructor and artist, learn traditional techniques and craft your own leaded panel to hang in a window or for display in the garden.