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.
Learn how to encase sea glass with fine silver to create pendants or earrings in this evening workshop with Beccy Gillatt. You will be gently guided through all the techniques to enable you to make your very own pieces of jewellery from these treasures of the sea.
Here is an opportunity for all past and current learners that would like to practice their skills, use tools that they may not have in their home workshop and complete their own projects without guidance. You must be confident enough to use tools and equipment in the workshop without tuition.
These NEW sessions for 2022 are available to all current and past learners that would like to use the workshop to complete their own projects but need some guidance with tools, techniques and projects they are working on.
Welcome in the warmer weather by painting foxgloves and bees! Using watercolour, in this workshop with Nicky Hunter, you will experiment with expressive and vibrant techniques to keep your work looking bright, fresh, dynamic and sun kissed.
Saturday Art Club is a monthly club for children aged 7-12 years. Each month, we explore different art forms and media, learning new skills and techniques. Printmaking, drawing, collage and painting are just a few of the art forms you can try.
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.
Do you have experience life drawing/painting but really want to get a longer time in front of a model? Come along to our Saturday Life Drawing Group with artist and tutor, Sara Myers. The model is still to be confirmed.
This Saturday’s morning model at the Life Drawing Group with Sara Myers is the wonderfully expressive Yvette. It will be short to medium poses for the session. Yvette brings a deep vitality and narrative to the short pose sessions and elegance and rhythm to her long poses.
On this 3-hour course with silversmith, Beccy Gillatt, you will learn how to turn silver spoons into beautiful rings. There will also be the opportunity to use spoon bowls to make pendants, if you’d like to utilise any cut off sections.
How we see and interpret naturally available light and how we start to understand the principles of controlling additional and artificial light sources to create mood and atmosphere, is fundamental to our role as a photographer.
On this workshop with silversmith, Beccy Gillatt you will learn how to make your very own silver bangle in a relaxed atmosphere. You’ll be gently guided through all the techniques needed to enable you to make two bangles from a choice of different designs.
Would you like to learn the art of linocut and make your own stamps to print on fabric? 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.
Over the 4-week course with silversmith, Beccy Gillatt, you will be guided through traditional jewellery making techniques and designing methods to enable you to develop your own creations, and craft them in silver and include gemstones.
In this workshop with silversmith, Beccy Gillatt, you will learn how to make a beautiful textured pendant or pair of earrings and add a striking detail of 24ct gold foil using the Korean technique of Keum-boo. Materials for a small pendant and earrings are included in the course fee but more can be purchased on the day.
New to jewellery making? Or already tried your hand at silversmithing? Got some ideas in mind but don’t know where to start? Then this course run by Beccy Gillatt is for you. It's a multi-session course suitable for all levels.
New to jewellery making? Or already tried your hand at silversmithing? Got some ideas in mind but don’t know where to start? Then this course run by Beccy Gillatt is for you. It's a multi-session course suitable for all levels.
Yes, in this class you really can … and your tutor, Cathy Burnett will give you the confidence to do so. Come and give yourself a couple of hours off and immerse yourself in drawing, using a choice of materials, and we’ll put the kettle on.
