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? 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 creativecraftswb@gmail.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Learn how to paint a delightful snowy dales scene in this watercolour workshop.
Discover the joy of creating your very own unique pair of Quirky Penguins or make a Quirky Penguin tealight holder, using stoneware clay.
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.
Make a collage based on still life arrangements using painted, found and vintage papers with Emma Lindsay. Beginners welcome!
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.
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.
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.
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)
Learn how to paint a delightful English garden landscape with a simple building structure filled with light and shade.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
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.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
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.
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.
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.
Paint abundant flowers using this unusual ‘wet into wet’ watercolour technique.
This session is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email 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.
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.
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.
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)
‘Art on the Wall ‘ is a rolling exhibition of works on the largest wall in the main space at Yardley Arts.
Art and Ceramics Exhibition, 28 and 29 June 10am – 4pm.
St. Andrews coffee morning, 28 June 10am – 12pm
Drop in and Draw, both days, 2 – 4pm
On the second 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 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.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email the tutor artworkshopswithemma@gmail.com
This experimental art class with Emma Lindsay will teach children new skills and how to use different materials in fun and varied ways.
Inspired by the naive artist Henri Rousseau, we will create playful, jungle scenes full of lush plants and wild animals.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email the tutor penny.german999@gmail.com
A two-day course focusing on producing still life oil painting using a loose approach and exploring tone and colour to describe the subject, without overworking.
This course is now sold out. If you would like to join the waiting list, please email bookings@yardleyarts.org
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.
During this workshop you will create lively contemporary artworks of a bluebell wood.
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.
Calling all artists (and aspiring artists)! Join us for a one-of-a-kind pottery workshop where you'll craft your very own paint palette, water pot and brush rests – a beautiful, functional set that will elevate your art and bring joy to your creative journey.
