Please Note: THESE ARE CHANGED DATES FROM PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED! The Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration includes a number of RHS medal winners in its ranks. Illustrating the world’s flora for scientific purposes continues to be the ... Read more
Butterflies are some of the most strikingly beautiful representatives of the natural world. The variety of colours and patterns make them objects of universal admiration. The paintings in this exhibition are by Ian Loe who ... Read more
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
A fascinating display of digital artwork by Mark Ware that brings together art and science to explore how we respond to natural and built environments. It is one of a series of art science collaborations ... Read more
A celebration of trees, with work almost exclusively by members of The Arborealists, a group of 43 artists with a national profile, from Wales to East Anglia and Sussex to Cornwall, of diverse art practice, ... Read more
A short evening with film highlighting the work of Shamidaethiopia. com Click here for details
Join some of the artists to view our latest exhibition – a celebration of trees, organised in association with The Arborealists. Ideally, please call 01452 731422 to tell us you are coming, but if not ... Read more
Try your hand at painting with natural pigments (some made from soil!), and learn about egg tempera with artist Claudia Hahn
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
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
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
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
Come and hear Julian Hight talk about his five year photographic odyssey to capture 100 ancient historic trees across 39 countries. This event coincides with our a special exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints of ... Read more
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
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
In formed by the special exhibition of paintings inspired by trees on display on the museum, spend a short while sketching/drawing/painting trees
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
A unique selection of ceramics by a world renowned maker, Jill Fanshawe Kato. Jill explores many techniques including coiling, slabbing, sculpting, using moulds and throwing and altering. She regards her work, which is held in ... Read more
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
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
View the latest exhibition by members of The Wildlife Art Society International whose exhibition officially opens the next day. All welcome.
The Wildlife Art Society International’s annual exhibition of wildlife art. Around 300 paintings, drawings, original prints, photographs and sculpture by professional and part-time members of this active organisation will be on display, the majority for ... Read more