Join the art group as they have a go at speed sketching. This is a fun and entertaining evening, where observational skills and skill with a pencil will be all important. An evening with a ... Read more
Art Course with Jonathan Newey 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 2-day course will show you how to draw colourful bird portraits with coloured pencil. Using photographs supplied by the tutor you will be ... Read more
Come and meet and hear from glass artist Amanda Lawrence who spent four years walking, looking and listening in the Slad Valley with camera, sketchbook and sound recorder to create our winter exhibition. Amanda’s striking ... Read more
Art Course with Robert Cox 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 8 On this 2-day course you will carefully study a natural object of your choice (seeds, leaves, shells etc) to pick out the shapes, forms, ... Read more
When Gwen Fern walked home accross Slad Valley on a summer night in 1919 she found enough glow worms to decorate her hat with a ‘ribbon of lights’. On Saturday 26th November at 11am ... Read more
Art Course with Jamie Boots 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 produce so ... Read more
Art Course with Josie Brown 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 1-day course will allow you to explore the art of bookbinding, as you make a journal using a Japanese Butterfly binding, which is ... Read more
Art Course with Josie Brown 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 1-day course will allow you to explore the art of Calligraphy. Josie will introduce you to the ‘Mouse Roman’ script. It is quick ... Read more
Wallsworth Art Group Join the art group as they go on a journey of discovery, learning how science is strongly connected and influential for artists and the art that they produce. This event will come ... Read more
Art Course with Amanda Lawrence 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 8 This 2-day course gives a taster of two techniques for creating images on glass. On day 1 you will learn several methods of applying ... Read more
Wallsworth Art Group Join the art group for a evening of fun and games to celebrate the festive season. Each member is kindly asked to bring along some nibbles to be shared amongst the group.
Watch three videos of the renowned painter Michael Porter as he gathers inspiration for his work and then see him creating works in his studio.
Come and spend time viewing the latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and then sharing thoughts on some of the images.
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
Art Course with Nik Pollard 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 10 Energy, improvisation, gesture, spontaneity and chance are all characteristics of the Monotype / Mono-print. They are the most painterly and responsive of all printmaking ... Read more
Come on a journey with Dr John Sparks, former head of the BBC Natural History Unit, to discover some of the natural history of Ethiopia. Event includes finger buffet. PLEASE BOOK YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE.
Art Course with Amanda Lawrence 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 8 This 2-day course gives a taster of two techniques for creating images on glass. On day 1 you will learn several methods of applying ... Read more
Come and view the latest exhibition by members of the Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration and hear about some of the techniques, methods and approaches employed
Art Course with Takumasa Ono 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This one-day workshop which will introduce you to Sumi-e, the ancient art of creating Japanese ink pictures, or Japanese brush painting. Traditionally, these paintings ... Read more
Come and hear from Mandi Baykaa Murray who will talk about her work painting on feathers and creating paintings of feathers
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
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
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
Come and hear Ian Loe MBE talk about a lifetime looking for and then painting and drawing butterflies. This event coincides with an exhibition of his work. Event includes a finger buffet. PLEASE BOOK TICKETS ... Read more
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
Informed by the special ‘A Passion for Butterflies’ exhibition in the museum galleries, get inspired by butterflies as a subject and spend a short while drawing and/or painting them
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
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