Art Classes

Learn to create vibrant botanical illustrations using watercolour pencils, tubes, and inks. Develop skills in observation, texture, colour, and composition while exploring botanical art’s rich history. Suitable for all levels, with materials provided. Share your work and stories in a supportive, creative environment.

Work from a live model and explore the principles of life drawing guided by an experienced tutor. Perfect for beginners or those wishing to improve their skills. All basic materials supplied.

Explore the fundamentals of capturing the human form. Guided by an experienced tutor, you’ll learn techniques for observing and translating a live model into clay sculptures. All Materials provided.

Get up close to a replica skeleton and draw the bare bones of the human body. This is a great way to develop your observational drawing skills as well as creating some frighteningly good portraits of our resident Skelly!

Immerse yourself in natural colour with Sophie Holt from PIGMENT Organic Dyes CIC. This workshop is perfect for anyone interested in sustainable fashion, textiles, natural dyeing, or simply looking for a creative and relaxing afternoon using natural materials.Create your own organic, bundle-dyed tote bag as well as a set of 8 beautiful organic cotton swatches to take home.

Join us for a hauntingly fun spooky zine making workshop and craft eerie, atmospheric mini magazines perfect for Halloween or any other ghostly occasion.

Join us for an immersive and experimental watercolour course designed to ignite your creativity and deepen your experience of watercolor techniques composition colour and styles.

This series of five weekly workshops will translate the stories from your own life into a textile book a unique piece of narrative artwork.

Use prints, watercolours, textiles, photos, and drawings to craft unique landscapes. Spark your creativity and explore the art of collage as a creative practice combining different mediums and ideas to inspire new perspectives. Suitable for all levels, this course encourages experimentation in a supportive environment.All materials provided.

Work from a model and using clay learn how to hand sculpt a hollow ceramic bust. During this 5 week course you will be taught the foundations of building a three-dimensional form, and explore anatomy, gesture, and expression to bring your sculpture to life.

Explore the fundamental elements of creating still life drawings, working with form, tone, colour and texture to create a sketches and drawings.

Work from a model and learn the principles of life drawing. Perfect for beginners and those returning to drawing, this course covers a variety of technical and expressive approaches to life drawing.

In this workshop you’ll learn some basic bookbinding techniques whilst making a hardcover sketchbook /notebook, which is then yours to keep and take home. Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Come and explore the expressive possibilities of abstract landscape through paint, charcoal, pastels and inks.

Explore collage as a creative tool, experiment with layering, typography, and juxtaposition, focusing on the theme of nature and the environment or your own subject of interest. Develop your composition and storytelling skills in a supportive setting and leave inspired and energized to continue your collage journey. Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Join Exeter Seed Bank for a seed packing workshop, find out about their latest projects over a drink and a chat whilst packing seeds As always, there will be seeds to take away and distribute for the next harvest.

Work with Sophie from Pigment Organic Dyes CIC and explore a range of plant dyes creating a rainbow of hand dyed materials to use in your crafting projects.

Add some special magic to your festive decor and make the most stunningly sparkly, spangly decoration to bring joy and glitter thats not just for Xmas.