What’s On

Mar 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Nature in Art
Using all kinds of different materials and techniques you will create a work of art to be proud of. This sessions could include anything from using fabric, different types of paper, glue, textiles, paint, inks ... Read more
Mar 18 @ 10:00 am – Mar 19 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Joanna Dewfall 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Day One You will learn about the various mosaic materials and techniques of cutting and setting. You will make a 25cmsq panel on board ... Read more
Mar 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course withSophie Buckley 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Join Making Needle Felted Animals author Sophie Buckley, who will guide you through creating a needle felt garden bird using a special barbed needle and ... Read more
Mar 25 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Ian Coleman 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 The iPad is a great concept sketching tool for conventional paintings, creating hybrid digital images or full digital works. On this 1-day course Ian ... Read more
Apr 1 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Helen Lomberg 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 On this 1-day course you will make Plant Climbers, Plant Supports, Trellises and decorative Garden Hurdles, all out of willow grown in Somerset and ... Read more
Apr 5 @ 10:00 am – Apr 6 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Jonathan Newey 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 What is abstract/expressionism? Have you wondered what it is like to paint like an abstract/expressionist? Then join Jonathan Newey on a journey of discovery ... Read more
Apr 8 @ 10:00 am – Apr 9 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Andrew Forkner 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 During the course we will explore how to achieve realistic detail and texture, using a controlled, multi-layered approach to working in pastel. Course Cost ... Read more
Apr 25 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Karen Coulson 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 1-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
Apr 26 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Karen Coulson 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 1-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
Apr 27 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Weaving paper is a traditional craft and a nice way to recycle old newspaper and magazines and turn them into some useful household items. With this project we will weave an object out of newspaper ... Read more
Apr 27 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Weaving paper is a traditional craft and a nice way to recycle old newspaper and magazines and turn them into some useful household items. With this project we will weave an object out of newspaper ... Read more
Apr 29 @ 10:00 am – Apr 30 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Jackie Garner 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 During this course we will take inspiration from Nature in Art’s special exhibition of paintings of trees on display at the time and from ... Read more
May 6 @ 10:00 am – May 7 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Trevor Hamlett 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 10 This step by step course will guide you through all you need to know to give you the professional skills for using Lightroom and ... Read more
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Tony O’Hare 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This course will introduce the student to the art of origami (paper folding) to create natural forms & subjects from nature. Suitable for total ... Read more
May 23 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Using a view finder out in the garden(weather permitting) or by looking at our handling collection will make quick sketches and preliminary drawings to create a designs, drawings or pattern which you can go onto ... Read more
May 23 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Using a view finder out in the garden(weather permitting) or by looking at our handling collection will make quick sketches and preliminary drawings to create a designs, drawings or pattern which you can go onto ... Read more
May 27 @ 10:00 am – May 29 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Over the Bank Holiday weekend (27th -29th May) TWASI will be running a series of workshops taught by artist members. Saturday 27th:- Paint a Bird on a Feather with Mandi Baykaa-Murray Sunday 28th:- Big Cats ... Read more
Jun 14 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Temari Japanese textile balls are breath taking in their intricate design, detail and time spent creating them. However we have quick cheat method to make these decorative balls. It great way to find out more ... Read more
Jun 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Temari Japanese textile balls are breath taking in their intricate design, detail and time spent creating them. However we have quick cheat method to make these decorative balls. It great way to find out more ... Read more
Jun 17 @ 10:00 am – Jun 18 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Cath Hodsman 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 11 Dragonflies and Damselflies are the biggest of British insects and also the most mystical. They are great survivors and date back as far as ... Read more
Jun 24 @ 10:00 am – Jun 25 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Jamie Boots 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 On this 2-day course you will learn all about working with graphite pencil from experienced artist Jamie Boots. Graphite pencil can be used to ... Read more
Jul 8 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Claire Billingsley 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Students will cut out clay tiles from pre-rolled clay, (clay will be pre rolled ready for the course so that it is at the ... Read more
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Claire Billingsley 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 Influenced by organic forms, students will create stoppered bottles using one of two techniques, slab building and/or coiling, working in stoneware clay. Students will ... Read more
Jul 15 @ 10:00 am – Jul 16 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Découpage involves cutting out pictures, gluing them to an object and then coating the pictures and the object with layers of varnish. Learn this lovely technique and transform dreary objects into something beautiful. PLEASE BOOK ... Read more
Jul 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Découpage involves cutting out pictures, gluing them to an object and then coating the pictures and the object with layers of varnish. Learn this lovely technique and transform dreary objects into something beautiful. PLEASE BOOK ... Read more
Jul 22 @ 10:00 am – Jul 23 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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 30 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Come and meet some wonderful birds of prey in the grounds of Nature in Art. Find out about their amazing lives, watch artists draw and paint them and have a go yourself A great opportunity for the ... Read more
Aug 12 @ 10:00 am – Aug 13 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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 19 @ 10:00 am – Aug 20 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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