Join us for a fun and lively class where you can develop your skills in art, craft and design.

Discover how to make felt in all its forms. From making vessels and bowls to ‘Nuno’ and needlefelting, you’ll have the opportunity to try a broad range of techniques and develop your skills in this versatile medium.

Create your own unique piece in our fully-equipped jewellery space, with a skilled volunteer supervisor present at each session.

Express your creativity and imagination in lots of different art forms

Develop your skill and understanding of portrait painting in oils, working direct from a model.

Further develop your acrylic painting skills and gain confidence, exploring techniques and mixing colour effectively.

Develop your observational drawing skills in this introductory course, which takes you through some basic techniques and theories.

Explore aerodynamics and air resistance by creating flying machines. Test them out in the Brewery gardens in a finale launch.

Discover the magic of conductive paint in this hands-on session. Learn the basics of using conductive paint, and bring your artwork to life with LEDs and conductive paint.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to practice and develop watercolour skills working direct from a portrait model.

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills. 

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model.

An opportunity for people with some experience to develop drawing and/or painting direct from a life model.

Learn to sew and make garments using patterns that you will draft from your own body measurements.

For those with some experience of watercolour, this short course focuses on techniques and approaches to painting landscapes.

This course explores further approaches to drawing, encouraging freer looser ways to work using exercises and experimenting with a range of media to create marks; watersoluble drawing materials, chalk, graphite sticks, charcoal and coloured paper.

Observing from life is the perfect discipline to improve drawing skills. This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

This course will provide an opportunity for people with some drawing and painting practice to develop their painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

An inspiring art class for children in home education. Express your creativity and imagination in lots of different art forms.

A chance to explore and make!

Join us for a relaxed evening of sketching and drawing in the Vats Bar.

This workshop co-insides with Catherine Macdiarmid’s exhibition ‘Personal’, in the Sugar Store Gallery. On it, you will gain an incite into Catherine’s artistic processes while composing your own unique portrait.

An opportunity to explore the technique of Nuno Felt Making. Fine patterns are drawn with fleece onto a silk chiffon or muslin background, when felted together a subtle, delicate fabric is created.

There is something magical about the combination of Indigo dye and Shibori techniques. In this workshop you will create your own indigo hand dyed fabric by stitching, wrapping and pleating the fabric.

Gesso has a wide application for every water-based media, acrylics, watercolour, gouache and inks.

Willow tipis set delightful vertical accents to your garden, whilst being versatile and practical.

Spend a relaxing day with Greenhouse Floristry creating beautiful hand-tied flower bouquets, followed by the opportunity to paint your creations guided by artist Annie Turner.

Learn different techniques on how to create waves, water, paint, rocks and beaches with local artist Thuline de Cock.

Combine traditional drawing methods using inks with more experimental approaches to get to grips with this versatile medium.

During this creative one day course, you will learn a number of techniques in order to produce beautiful pieces of art painted on silk.

Bring your favourite stories and characters alive in this ‘dahlicious’ week of ingenious invention, creative dance, mischievous drama and ridiculous rhymes.

A relaxed club watching films and playing games.