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.
Becky Gillatt 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 Becky’s website.
In this exciting beginners workshop you will learn how to design and construct a beautiful ceramic bird made with stoneware clay. It can be decorated with detailed feathers on the wings, body and tail.
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 be notified of similar courses, please email info@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.
If you want to learn more about using collage alongside other mixed media in your work then this weekend course will set you on the right track and open up a new creative avenue.
Come to our beautiful village setting and enjoy the guidance from our inspirational collage artist Emma Lindsay in our stunning building.
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.
Create an expressive painting of flowers bursting with radiance, light and joy. Loosen up and lift your paintings from lack-lustre flowers to radiant blooms with wow factor!!!
Use a mixture of wet in dry and wet into wet method and a limited colour palette along with lively direct brushwork to create paintings that are radiant and fresh with a vital balance of areas of impact with strong tonal contrast combined with soft edges to create beautiful yet bold artworks.
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Make a crazy, colourful bunch of flowers using collage, paint, crayon and pens!
This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org
In this bank holiday weekend workshop, let artist Sally Ellis inspire you to create your own contemporary still life paintings using acrylic paints and inks in our stunning art centre.
Sally will guide you through her unique process which will encourage you to be playful, expressive and brave which you can then adapt accordingly in your own painting.
At the end of the weekend, you will have created up to 2 paintings on artist quality acrylic paper on cradled wooden panels.
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)
If you want to gain a better understanding of your camera and get out of automatic mode then this could be just the course you are looking for!
This six session practical course will cover the fundamentals of digital photography, enabling you to improve your photographic skills and boost your self-confidence in using your camera manually
‘Art on the Wall ‘ is a rolling exhibition of works on the largest wall in the main space at Yardley Arts.
Katy Burdett and Emma Lindsay are well known local artists and will be filling Yardley Arts with their paintings, prints and greeting cards, all available to view and most to buy.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to be notified of similar courses, please email info@yardleyarts.org
We are delighted to have Minnie Teckman return as a tutor with this five-week drawing course to get you started and give you confidence. It is designed to build up your observational drawing skills, as well as exploring and learning techniques. Each week there will be a different theme such as tone and value, line and texture, form and space.
