Jul 15 @ 10:00 am – Jul 16 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Simon Williams 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 The 2-day course will focus on botanical painting, giving you the opportunity to work with alternative mediums such as gouache or acryl gouache. Taking ... Read more
Jul 19 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Jul 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Jul 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Jul 22 @ 10:00 am – Jul 23 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Jackie Cox 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Scraperboard is a method of creating a tonal picture by scratching through a layer of black Indian ink to reveal a white chalk layer ... Read more
Jul 25 – Sep 3 all-day
Jul 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
6:30 pm
(Image by Andrew Denman) Come and join us to celebrate this exhibition in the company of some of the artists. Open from 6.30 – 9.30pm with short special talks taking place throughout the evening. A ... Read more
Jul 30 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Aug 12 @ 10:00 am – Aug 13 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Ann Swan 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Strong composition is essential to creating memorable works of art; this is particularly so in botanical art, good composition can lift a work from ... Read more
Aug 15 @ 10:00 am – Aug 28 @ 5:00 pm
Aug 19 @ 10:00 am – Aug 20 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Val Briggs 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 1st day creating 3 different backgrounds with wet into wet and directional washes for hedgerow/woodland, loch and mountains and reed beds/water/sky Day 2 How ... Read more
Aug 22 – Sep 10 all-day
Aug 23 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
6:30 pm
Hear from Ben, an Independence Trust client, who has recently returned from volunteering in the Mapesu wildlife reserve in South Africa. Ben had never been to Africa and was very anxius about it all but ... Read more
Aug 25 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Josie Brown 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This workshop will introduce beginners to the various different processes for laying a range of different metals, not just gold, for use with lettering, ... Read more
Aug 26 @ 10:00 am – Aug 27 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Jill Moger 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 The aim of this course is for each student to create in clay, a section of coral reef with marine wildlife, with a view ... Read more
Sep 2 @ 10:00 am – Sep 3 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Holly Brookes 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 During this two day course participants will be introduced to sandpaper aquatint printmaking techniques. Working with pre-prepared copper plates they will first be taught ... Read more
Sep 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Sep 5 – Oct 1 all-day
Sep 8 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Sophie Buckley 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Join Making Needle Felted Animals author Sophie Buckley, who will guide you through creating a needle felt hedgehog using a special barbed needle and ... Read more
Sep 9 @ 10:00 am – Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Rosalind Wise 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Wildflower meadows look complicated and difficult to paint. My aim in this course is to show an easy way to construct a meadow, making ... Read more
Sep 16 @ 10:00 am – Sep 17 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Jackie Garner 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Vibrant or subtle colours, thin like watercolours or thick like oils, quick drying and lightfast; acrylics are endlessly versatile. Suitable for all abilities, this ... Read more
Sep 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
7:00 pm
The Strawberry Thief by William Morris Mary worked at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, is a writer on the Arts and Crafts Movement and Chairman of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen. Come and hear her ... Read more
Sep 30 @ 10:00 am – Oct 1 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Kathleen Matthews 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This course will include tuition on how to create an applique textile landscape, using raw edge and fusible applique. Different fabrics will be used ... Read more
Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Oct 14 @ 10:00 am – Oct 15 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Cath Hodsman 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 11 As Winter’s bite takes hold, all insects are hiding, riding out the extreme weather as either an egg, larva, pupa, or adult…….. Metamorphosis is ... Read more
Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
7:00 pm
This talk coincides with our exhibition of work by Eric Ennion, a remarkable all-round naturalist who was one of the 20th century’s most talented and original wildlife artists. Field Sketch: an inspiring wildlife encounter, seized ... Read more
Oct 21 @ 10:00 am – Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
Art Course with Karen Coulson 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 2-day course is a wonderful introduction to the world of coloured pencil techniques. Learn the art of layering different coloured pencil strokes to ... Read more
Oct 28 @ 10:00 am – Oct 29 @ 5:00 pm
10:00 am
(Images left to right: Natty Decco, Nicole Iredale Designs, Karen Edwards, Pear Tree Arts, Nutmeg & Sage) £2 entry Free for under 16’s (including access to upstairs museum galleries) Car parking is free One of ... Read more