For our holiday workshops, we celebrated Spring with all it's colour and delight. Birdie wall hangings were created, egg totem poles...

Batik is a wax resist and dying technique used to decorate fabric throughout South East Asia and India. It originated from Java in...

Abstract art is non-representational. Colour, shape, line and pattern are explored and celebrated. Abstraction makes an exciting and...

The children had requested that they learn about art from a different culture. Peacocks are the national bird of India. Peacock feathers...

You can do a lot with a roll of tin foil! We began by showing the children how to cut 3 slits into a flat piece of foil. By simply...

We have recently completed a big project on how negative space is used in art. The Yorkshire artist, Barbara Hepworth, believed that...

To celebrate the beginning of Spring, we spent the afternoon creating both 2D & 3D pieces art inspired by birds and nests. Here are a few...

It's cold! Frosty mornings, mist and the odd blue sky. The children have been exploring a range of activities to create both 2D and 3D...

Carrying on with our investigations into shape we have been using the printing presses in the studio. Printing can be a very messy...

The artist Ben Nicholson had a cat called Foxy! Please go to the following website to see a lovely picture of them both: Who is Ben...

Ben Nicholson was an artist who spent part of his life living and working in St Ives, in Cornwall. He produced still life paintings and...

We ran some festive classes before Christmas inspired by Julia Donaldson's book ' The Christmas Pine'. Here are a few photos to...

We have had a very productive few weeks exploring abstract art. Balbinder Broadbent, a Leeds based artist, has an exhibition on at the...

We ran a session for a group of 5-11 year old's yesterday afternoon, based on mushrooms. We recently discovered that there are between...

Using the printing press has been a real hit amongst the children! They have been learning about abstract art and have been introduced to...

We have just spent the most fascinating day at Fishpond Woods learning about bones! Lea Eyre from Forest and Feathers taught us about...

To introduce colour theory to the children, we introduced the concept of the 12 part colour wheel. They came to understand the importance...