Classes are filling up fast, so book early to avoid disappointment. Both the bright and airy main space and craft room are being kept clean and as safe as possible, so you can enjoy being creative with likeminded people. We look forward to seeing you at Yardley Arts.
Beccy Gillat runs a number of 3 hour, whole day and evening workshops throughout the year in our jewellery studio. Workshops include cabochon stone setting, spoon making and sea glass setting, all suitable for total beginners and those with some experience.
To view all workshops, please visit Beccy’s website.
Have you always wanted to draw but don’t know where to start, or want a refresher course? Then join tutor Emma Lindsay on this relaxed beginners course and you’ll be drawing before you know it!
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
On this six-week afternoon course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
On this six-week evening course you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.
Unlock the beauty of watercolour painting on this six-week course. Learn simple yet effective techniques to help you paint with confidence.
On the second Friday of January 2026, the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Create patterned Matryoshka Dolls, learning about line and pattern and experimenting with watercolour pencils.
Join our six evening classes to learn the craft of stained glass! Practice new skills, design and create your own panel and have fun in a relaxed and easy-going environment.
This is a closed session, reserved for a school life drawing workshop as part of an enrichment programme.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
Watercolour is a wonderful medium to paint and create this colourful and characterful green woodpecker. Learn good watercolour practice and techniques to improve your painting skills and loosen up your style to lift your work with an expressive feel.
Join us for a six-week introductory course in botanical drawing, led by Botanical Artist Sophie Smith.
This course is designed for adults with beginner-level experience and aims to teach the fundamentals of drawing plants using graphite and coloured pencils.
Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home! In this workshop, we will be looking at linocuts of landscapes and you will be creating your own.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
Perfect for plant lovers and creative spirits alike, this session invites you to craft stunning nature-inspired stained glass using the copper foil method. Join us for a full or half-day immersive to learn these traditional techniques.
On the first Friday of every month the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Learn about the artist Kandinsky and make our own version of his famous circle pictures exploring colour theory and oil pastels.
Join Kat Lendacka for three four-hour workshops to learn linocut reduction technique and create your own colourful linocuts. A reduction print is made by gradually carving away more lino after each layer is printed. The process of carving away and printing is repeated on the same block until the final print is built up.
Some previous experience of linocut is required.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
We welcome back the talented Cordell Garfield to run another full day’s portraiture workshop. Cordell teaches a step by step process to create a portrait from a photographic reference. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists.
Watercolour is the perfect medium to paint vibrant spring florals that burst with joy from the page.
Learn how to work with air-drying clay and how to build up layers to create a relief form.
This course is ideal for both beginners and improvers who would like to explore the art of relief sculpting and painting in a friendly and creative environment.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Create an elaborate, colourful version of the iconic St Basil's Cathedral, learning about symmetry, balance, line and pattern.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
This workshop is an ideal introduction to landscape painting in oils. Working from a reference photo provided a landscape painting will be produced with attention to perspective, tonal values, colour mixing and application of colours. Students will be able to create a realistic landscape painting following a step-by-step process.
Watercolour is the perfect medium to paint a ‘mad March hare.’
Nicky shows you the stages of creating this artwork in informative demonstrations so you can enjoy creating your own unique painting of this characterful creature.
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
A collage project using printed and plain tissue paper. We will create a beautiful layered tissue paper cityscape collage inspired by the work of Paul Klee.
Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home!
In this workshop, we will be looking at Christmas themed linocuts.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email studio@saramyers.co.uk
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
Do you have a framing issue that needs resolving? Yardley Arts is pleased to welcome back John’s framing service and free clinic to assist you.
On the first Friday of the month the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)
Make a collage based on still life arrangements using painted, found and vintage papers with Emma Lindsay. Beginners welcome!
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Create fun and colourful printed postcard designs using foam stencils and coloured printing inks.
Discover the joy of creating your very own unique pair of Quirky Penguins or make a Quirky Penguin tealight holder, using stoneware clay.
Learn the art of crafting a beautiful festive wreath of lush natural foliage.
Learn how to paint a delightful snowy dales scene in this watercolour workshop.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email creativecraftswb@gmail.com
Join us for an immersive full-day experience and discover the art of traditional leaded stained glass, as used in cathedrals, churches and houses across the UK. Led by an experienced instructor and artist, learn traditional techniques and craft your own leaded panel to hang in a window or for display in the garden.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email studio@saramyers.co.uk
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email lendack@yahoo.com
There are spaces available on this workshop on 12 December
Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home!
In this workshop, we will be looking at Christmas themed linocuts.
Learn the art of crafting a beautiful festive wreath of lush natural foliage.
Cordell Garfield’s ‘Exploring Colour’ is an exciting one day workshop exploring colour theory and the application of colour. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists in understanding colour.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
On this six-week evening course you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
On this six-week afternoon course, you will have the opportunity to build your confidence in tackling both drawing and painting. This will be a skills based course, improving your drawing and use of colour, whilst providing hints and tips on a personalised level, enabling you to develop at your own pace.
Working on an A4 canvas, follow a demonstrated step-by-step approach to painting a landscape. You will experiment with a range of techniques including dry brush work, blending, sgraffito and negative painting.
Discover the art of copper foil stained glass. Join us for a full or half-day immersive to learn traditional techniques and craft your own lovely panel or suncatcher for display, or several small pieces to give as gifts.
This session is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please contact the tutor studio@saramyers.co.uk
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
Do you have a framing issue that needs resolving? Yardley Arts is pleased to welcome back John’s framing service and free clinic to assist you.
On the first Friday of the month the main studio turns in to a working space to paint, draw, or simply have time to work on some ideas with others in a mutually supportive creative atmosphere. Whether you consider yourself an artist, a creative or an art student, we invite you to come and make the most of our great facilities, for only £10 for the day (please book in advance)
This session is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please contact the tutor studio@saramyers.co.uk
Sara Myers’ Saturday life drawing is a relaxed and friendly untutored life drawing group with professional models and lighting, set in our stunning main studio. Each event has a different model and theme carefully chosen to inspire and enhance your drawing skills.
Would you like to learn the art of linocut? Come and join Northamptonshire based linocut printmaker Kat Lendacka. You will leave with a selection of prints and greeting cards and a new skill you can keep improving at home!
In this workshop, we will be looking at linocuts of animals and you will be creating your own.
Learn how to paint evocative paintings of decorative balconies and windows in this watercolour workshop.
Join us for an immersive full-day experience and discover the art of traditional leaded stained glass, as used in cathedrals, churches and houses across the UK. Led by an experienced instructor and artist, learn traditional techniques and craft your own leaded panel to hang in a window or for display in the garden.
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Using drawing, pattern and colour, create a vibrant sea turtle swimming in the sea using oil pastels on black paper.
This workshop is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email cordellgarfield10@gmail.com
We welcome back the talented Cordell Garfield to run another full day’s portraiture workshop. Cordell teaches a step by step process to create a portrait from a photographic reference. The workshop is designed to help both beginners and more experienced artists.
Explore the beauty of natural forms and use them as inspiration for drawings, focusing on shape, structure, and form. Use these studies to guide the creation of your own organic-inspired ceramic sculptures.
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Using French painter Matisse as our inspiration create a colourful still life painting using a variety of different media and techniques.
