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AUTUMN HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2026
It’s no secret that Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, as the days get cool and colourful, it’s time to step inside the Gallery Space at Addison Road, to get playful and create an Imagination ZOO, celebrate The Year of The FIRE Horse, look inside the EXTRAordinary Everyday, learn to create lovely Landscape Portraits and showcase different points of view in POV (Interesting Perspectives). Please come join me to celebrate this wonderful time of change, surrounded by flashes of red, orange & yellow and flares of inspiration and imagination.
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Imagination ZOO
Welcome to the ZOO! In this Workshop we’ll see that Drawing living things can be based both in observation & in our imagination. In this Workshop we’ll see a fun way to learn to draw animals is to play with creating fantasy animals & then letting them inhabit their very own zoo. As one of my favourite illustrators, Quentin Blake, says “Fantasy animals may not be very realistic in the way they look, but they can be quite realistic in the way they feel”. Using prompts like “bird-ish”, fish-ish”, “bug-ish” (& maybe “dragon-ish”) we’ll play a game of imagining to create and draw a magical menagerie in many mediums.
Ages 5+
Monday 13th April 10:00 - 4:00 |
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The Year of The FIRE Horse
What better way to celebrate this magnificent mammal & its 2026 element than to spend a whole day drawing it. There will be lots of raging reds, oranges & yellows as we create a layered fold out of frolicking fiery foals created by posing our beautifully decorated articulated animals in playful performance. We’ll explore, experiment, draw, collage and create until all forms are full of layer upon layer of vibrant marks and meaning. This will be a work worthy of year long admiration.
Ages 5+
Tuesday 14th April 10:00 - 4:00 |
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The EXTRAordinary Everyday
I have come to realise that taking time to draw the world around you can open your eyes to how EXTRAordinary everyday things can be. In this Workshop we’ll use different drawing techniques to capture some fabulous foods, perfect packaging, curious crockery (and cutlery) and pair them with some uninvited insects to create a picture-perfect picnic of that you may (or may not) see every day!
Ages 5+
Wednesday 15th April 10:00 - 4:00 |
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Landscape Portraits
Why choose between them when you can create both perfectly precious portraits paired with luminously luscious landscapes. In this Workshop we get the best of both worlds. While creating and constructing lovely line characters. We also get to explore and experiment with wonderful ways of using the layering of tones, marks and colour to tell stories of internal and external worlds. Better still by the end of the day we will be able to flip from one to the other to reveal a lot more than first meets the eye.
Ages 5+
Thursday 16th April 10:00 - 4:00 |
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POV (interesting perspectives)
Different points of view can create some very interesting perspectives which can make some very interesting drawings. When we are learning to draw, we often play it safe with size, scale and viewpoints, but not in this Workshop! In this Workshop we’ll play with framing and consider composition while trying new ways of using a whole range of techniques and mediums to add more interest into the mix and hopefully inspire students to think twice about ever playing it safe again.
This Workshop is specifically designed for older kids and is the perfect way to experiment with different types of drawing & drawing mediums.
Ages 10+
Friday 17th April 10:00 - 4:00
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