What’s On

Sep 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Explore the techniques required to draw these 2 delightful birds using Derwent Coloursoft Pencils on mount board. A line drawing is supplied to ... Read more
Sep 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Unfortunately this talk has been postponed until next year. A new date will be announced later in the year.  Richard is a well known and engaging lecturer, author, tutor and regular artist in residence at ... Read more
Sep 20 – Sep 21 all-day
  Course Suitability: Absolute beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: This is a two day course that will show you how to paint seasides and coastlines with acrylic paint. During the course you ... Read more
Sep 26 – Sep 28 all-day
Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Rosalind will guide you through painting garden borders and how to emulate the energy, colour, beauty and vivacity found in them. You can use any ... Read more
Oct 2 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: The iPad and Procreate are powerful and extremely useful tools to visualise an idea. Starting with either a real pencil sketch or digital ... Read more
Oct 3 – Oct 4 all-day
Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Beginners Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Are you terrified of drawing but have a secret longing to learn how to do it? Then enrol on this course where Richard will ... Read more
Oct 14 – Oct 15 all-day
(Photo is another example of Jamie’s work rather than a bird of prey) FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: On this two day course learn all about working ... Read more
Oct 18 – Oct 19 all-day
Course Suitability: Absolute beginners – Advanced Course Capacity: 12 Course Description: Scraperboard or Scratchboard is a form of direct engraving where the top dark surface is scratched off to reveal the white chalk layer underneath. ... Read more
Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
   7pm – doors open to view the galleries 7:30pm – Finger Buffet Talk starts just after 8pm Haunted by the Last Tide is the collaboration between the Society of Wildlife Artists and the Vadehavet ... Read more
Oct 21 – Oct 22 all-day
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 10 Course Description: This course explores the wonderful and versatile craft of glass engraving with a drill.  It’s an opportunity for beginners to learn the ... Read more
Nov 1 @ 10:00 am – Nov 2 @ 5:00 pm
Due to cancellations there are now two places available on this course. Please email Alice to book. Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: This is a two day course that will ... Read more
Nov 4 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 10 Course Description: Painting can be very therapeutic, but the enjoyment can quickly disappear if you find yourself frustrated with what you produce. This class ... Read more
Nov 11 – Nov 12 all-day
There is ONE space left on this course, please email Alice to book. Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: On this watercolour painting (or coloured pencils) workshop, Cath will take ... Read more
Nov 18 – Nov 19 all-day
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Monotype / Monoprint is an intriguing hybrid among printmaking techniques. It is neither a print nor a painting but a unique combination of ... Read more
Nov 25 – Nov 26 all-day
This course has been cancelled due to Liz having an operation and will be postponed to Spring 2024. If you are interested in being contacted when a new date is arranged then please email Alice. ... Read more
Nov 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
  FULLY BOOKED In 2018, the painter Nicholas Jones made an extraordinary voyage along the coasts of Greenland and Baffin Island as ‘Artist in Residence’ with the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute. In ... Read more
Feb 10 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Beginners Maximum Capacity: 10 Course Description: A relaxing and fun filled day creating loose abstract floral paintings and abstract patterns using sublimation inks and then heat pressing them ... Read more
Feb 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
  Cath is one of the U.K’s foremost entomological artists and illustrators. A great enthusiast, she believes that the best way to celebrate the importance and relevance of insects in a happy, healthy ecology, is ... Read more
Feb 26 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
    Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Inspired by the decorative works of the golden age of illustration and the Arts and Crafts movement, this course will show you ... Read more
Mar 16 @ 10:00 am – Mar 17 @ 5:00 pm
Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: During this two day course students may choose to work with watercolour or ‘Brusho’ paint. The aim is to create a colourful image of flowers ... Read more
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
    Paul is a freelance wildlife photographer striving to make images count in the conservation of wildlife and habitats in rivers, lakes, forests and oceans. He works with marine, freshwater and wildlife conservation agencies ... Read more
Mar 30 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: You will learn about the simple beauty of making mosaics and produce one for your home with professional mosaic artist Joanna Dewfall ... Read more
Apr 6 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: On this one day course, Helen will teach you how to make a basket using red Dogwood, Snowberry Hazel and Lime, together with ... Read more
Apr 13 @ 10:00 am – Apr 14 @ 5:00 pm
Course Suitability: Beginners- Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description Card printing is the perfect introduction to relief printmaking. Using scissors and craft knives, participants will have the opportunity to develop a number of different prints ... Read more
Apr 15 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners- Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: In this needle felting class you will learn how to needle felt a beautiful and fun Indian runner duck that’s about 8 inches ... Read more
Apr 20 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Unfortunately this course has now been cancelled. Course Description: Beginners- Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: In this course we will be drawing on the iPad a repeating pattern of seashells in isolated layers for ... Read more
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Julia has a love of estuaries and salt marshes, particularly those not far from her Somerset studio.  Working with Andy Don, an international eel expert, she has discovered the incredible – implausible sometimes! – life ... Read more
Apr 27 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 10 Course Description: Painting can be very therapeutic, but the enjoyment can quickly disappear if you find yourself frustrated with what you produce. This course ... Read more
May 4 @ 10:00 am – May 5 @ 5:00 pm
This course has unfortunately had to be cancelled due to illness.  Course Suitability: Absolute Beginners – Advanced Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: Beetles are one of the earth’s greatest evolutionary success stories. Of all insect ... Read more
May 7 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
FULLY BOOKED Course Suitability: Beginners – Improvers Maximum Capacity: 12 Course Description: On this one-day course, you will make plant climbers, plant supports, trellises and decorative Garden Hurdles, all out of willow and hazel grown ... Read more