FULLY BOOKED

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.

FULLY BOOKED

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.

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)

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.

FULLY BOOKED

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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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)

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 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.