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Our new term starts tomorrow! Most evening classes are full but we have 1 place available on Botanical Illustration and 2 places for Lino Cut Printing - more info here

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News from the Birchwood August Newsletter That’s all folks, or is it just the beginning? As our summer school sadly draws to an end we’re closing for a week to take a breath and remember all the best bits before the great clean up and new term begins. Thanks to all our summer school students young and old, and our tuto...

It's not too late to sign up for our summer term classes. We have a few places left in illustration, developers painting, mindfulness, creative painting and beginners painting. You can't book online once a course has started but just phone or message if you'd like to try something or start part way through the term.

Birchwood Summer Term starts on Monday. If you haven’t tried an art class before or if you have been away from it for a while, now is time to give it a try. Book for an eight week course from one of the following classes or if you are feeling a bit nervous bring a pal with you for a taster, before committing to the whole term, at our 2 for 1 Summer Offer rate.

Courses with spaces include:

Monday afternoon: Anyone Can Paint with .art

Tuesday morning: Anyone Can Draw 2 with Sam

Wednesday evening: Expressive Mark Making with .gardner

Friday morning: Creative Painting with or Friday morning fortnightly, Art for Mindfulness with .byraphie.

No matter what your level Anyone Can start a new arty adventure in the Birchwood.

Book on our website for a course or message us to enquire about a taster. All materials supplied.

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News from the Birchwood February Newsletter “Creative people don’t have a mess. They have ideas lying around everywhere.” (Pinterest, source unknown) This month we have been embracing ideas everywhere. Not only have we come back from the holidays extremely creatively due to space-making building work and floor sandin...

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News from the Birchwood Christmas Newsletter Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and an artful New Year. Thanks to all for another wonderful year of daubers becoming painters, doodlers mastering straight lines and perfect circles, after-schoolers becoming teen clubbers, the "can’t do" transforming into the “can do reall...

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News from the Birchwood October Newsletter “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”. from Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong I was reminded of this lovely quote after being overly (thanks to Covid) “dusty” last month. Thankfully on Monday I had a “Good Drawing Day” which marke...

News from the Birchwood

News from the Birchwood September Newsletter What a treat it’s been to welcome you all back into Birchwood for our new term. New and familiar faces have been flowing in and out, delighting us with their creativity, effort and Summer gossip. For most the term has kicked off with a bit of drawing to get everyone back into ...

Perk-up fuzzy holiday heads with the ultimate brain workout - drawing. Did you know that putting a pencil to work can increase brain activity and creativity, improves memory and relieves stress?

With the Autumn Term approaching we are making sure “Anyone Can” benefit from this mindful and rewarding practice with workshops and courses for the absolutely terrified, beginners, occasional dabblers and keen developers.

See our website for more details and find yourself in an exercise class you won’t want to miss.

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News from the Birchwood August Newsletter This month we have been mostly “Arting “ ”Arting” is a word introduced to me by a very intelligent and creative Holiday Art clubber to describe the act of making art all day long. In my view, Arting = (as Barbie would say) Best Day Ever! Nothing compares to being completely...

Have you ever wanted to go to a drawing class but were scare that everyone else in the class would be better than you? We have the perfect solution. Come along to our Absolute Beginners Drawing Workshop on Saturday 19th August, get comfortable in a studio space, learn the basic techniques and experiment with a variety of drawing materials that will give you the confidence to start your own drawing adventure. Book on our website.

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News from the Birchwood July Newsletter All change in the Summer Birchwood Tables were turned, chairs piled up, windows cleared, artwork distributed, end of term exhibitions had and goodbyes said (some very tear filled as we waved the P7’s off to high school). The floors were cleared and the mop sloshed as we transformed...

Birchwood Art Studio updated their business hours.

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News from the Birchwood May Newsletter If at first you don’t succeed try, try, again I’m sorry to report the air in the Birchwood was blue yesterday evening. I was practicing for an art party – a painting of a very pretty church, the setting for an upcoming wedding. I’d almost finished, identified different approac...

News from the Birchwood April Newsletter Much March Madness As you can see, from the image above, we have lost the plot in so many marvellous ways this month. Not only did Pickles, Juicy, Nina and Coco the Cat don Vermeer-esque Pearl earrings, pickled cucumbers and lost property water bottles made their way in to afterscho...

News from the Birchwood Daffodowndilly She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: "Winter is dead.” ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young Oh let’s hope so! Luck...

News from the Birchwood Be it Prussian, Cerulean, Winsor, green, grey or birchwood we have been positively embracing winter blues over the past few weeks. We have rejoiced in: canvases of snow-covered Pentlands in Bruegelesque skies, illustrated art nouveau inspired peacocks, speckled washes, luminous Victoria Crowe style....

Birchwood Art Studio updated their information in their About section.

News from the Birchwood Anyone can… is our mantra. And all through 2022 we have been proven right. Scores of nervous, school scared, “I’m bound to be the worst” self-doubters have tentatively taken their chair, sharpened their pencil, wet their brush, braved their fears, persevered and created something wonderful. ...

News from the Birchwood We are 2 Amazing, we made it. All thanks to all the lovely students, tutors, assistants, models and community that have made no two days the same and kept our big blue doors open (once we got past lockdown) for a whole 24th months. Please come and join us to celebrate on Sunday 4th December from 2-5...

Collaborative scaling-up exercise beautifully conquered by Friday’s Teen Art Club. Amazing accuracy, they make everything look so easy.

I really thought this was a photograph when I first saw it.

Beautiful work from a talented student in Suzanne G’s .g.creates botanical illustration course last night.

The class is always popular and full at the moment but plant lovers don’t despair, there are a couple of last minute places in tonight’s Illustrate your own Secret Garden inspired calendar course. All levels welcome from total beginners to “A +” students like the creator of this gorgeous work.

Having fun with charcoal today before moving on to paint next week.