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
An evening with the creator of our latest special exhibition, textile artist Liz Brooke-Ward
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
Demonstration night with Chris Sinden, renowned for his collage style multi-coloured linocut printing technique
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
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
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
Spend a summer evening drawing and painting in the grounds of 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A chance too view the Meg Stevens exhibition (and other items) and spend a short time creating such work.
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
Spend an evening in the studio with bird artist Martin Rumary
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
Follow your heart with a practical session ‘Painting in the moment’ led by artist Frances Whitman
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
Art Course with Tor Hildyard 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 8 Explore the mysteries behind the Collagraph Print on this 1-day course. Learn how to make your own unique prints from plates created from mount ... Read more
Watch a film about a unique initiative – The Rock Music Rock Art project which was inspired by the ancient ‘rock gongs’ of remote Lolui Island in Lake Victoria, Uganda. Sponsored by the Ruwenzori Sculpture ... Read more
Art Course with Sharon Foley 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 9 Glass fusing is joining two or more layers of glass through heating in a kiln. There are several techniques that can be adapted to ... Read more
Art Course with Josie Brown 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This workshop introduces the currently very popular modern script which is quick and easy to learn, fun and light-hearted to do and useful for ... Read more
Join us to view and talk about some of the amazing images in the very latest British Wildlife Photography Awards. The exhibition at Nature in Art opens on 7th November, the day after the launch ... Read more


























