The Northants & Rutland Open Studios festival is an incredible event showcasing the talent of over 325 artists across 130 venues throughout Northamptonshire and Rutland. Yardley Arts are proud to be one of the larger venues exhibiting 10 different artists’ work over two weekends and a few weekdays in September.
Have you always wanted to draw but don’t know where to start? 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.
On this six-week course you will learn the basics of painting in watercolour and pick up tips and tricks to help you tackle your watercolour painting with confidence.
Using Your iPad in Art is aimed at creative people who have an iPad and want to learn how to use it to develop their own work.
We will be developing drawings and compositions from source material like existing sketches or photographs and editing existing artwork.
Learn how to paint a delightful English garden landscape with a simple building structure filled with light and shade.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn how to paint evocative paintings of decorative balconies and windows in this watercolour workshop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
