What’s On

Sep 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
An evening with artists Val Briggs and Trevor Smith
Sep 8 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Sep 9 @ 10:00 am – Sep 11 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Sep 16 @ 10:00 am – Sep 17 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Sep 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
A chance too view the Meg Stevens exhibition (and other items) and spend a short time creating such work.
Sep 30 @ 10:00 am – Oct 1 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Spend an evening in the studio with bird artist Martin Rumary
Oct 14 @ 10:00 am – Oct 15 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Follow your heart with a practical session ‘Painting in the moment’ led by artist Frances Whitman
Oct 21 @ 10:00 am – Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Nov 4 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Nov 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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
Nov 10 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Nov 12 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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
Nov 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
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
Nov 18 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Helen Lomberg 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 A rewarding 1-day where participants will use willow and other materials to make stars, garlands, angels, reindeer and mini Christmas trees ready forb the ... Read more
Nov 25 @ 10:00 am – Nov 26 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Jonathan Newey 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This is a two day course that will show you how to draw African wildlife portraits with coloured pencil. Using photographs supplied by the ... Read more
Dec 2 @ 10:00 am – Dec 3 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Jammie 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
Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
An evening of life drawing with a model under the guidance of Rosemary Harvey. Please bring your art materials and a monetary donation for the model. (Some materials may be available for loan of needed).
Dec 9 @ 10:00 am – Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
Art Course with Trevor Smith 10am – 5pm Maximum Participants: 12 This 2-day course will cover basic bird anatomy, sketching methods and techniques, the use and handling of watercolour and composing a picture. For the ... Read more
Dec 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Christmas social. SORRY THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE NEW YEAR DUE TO THE WEATHER.
Jan 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Meet in Coffee Shop
A Passion for Nature – a film about Peter Scott.
Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Meet in Coffee shop
Viewing of and discussion about Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Jan 31 @ 10:00 am – Feb 1 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
This is a two day course that will show you how to draw animal portraits with coloured pencil on black paper. Using photographs supplied by the tutor you will be shown how to draw the ... Read more
Feb 10 @ 10:00 am – Feb 11 @ 5:00 pm Nature in Art
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 much more than just a sketch. Jamie will show ... Read more
Feb 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Meet in Coffee Shop
WAG exhibition appreciation night
Mar 3 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Nature in Art
These little garden bird mosaics are designed to interact with their environment, reflecting and refracting light so that they change throughout the day. On this one day workshop you will produce a stained glass mosaic ... Read more
Mar 5 @ 6:45 pm Nature in Art
Ice Rink – Isabelle Procter