Get ready to face your creativity head-on! Today’s all about portraits with a twist, from fruit and veggie Renaissance-inspired self-portraits to bold 3D creations that tell a story.

Morning Session – Arcimboldo Fruity Faces
Channel your inner fruit bowl! In this peculiar portrait workshop, budding artists will explore the wonderfully weird world of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Renaissance artist who built faces entirely from fruits, vegetables, and plants! We’ll design our own fruit-and-veg-inspired self-portraits using layered watercolour and drawing techniques, discovering how everyday objects can be transformed into expressive, unexpected artworks!

Afternoon Session – Framed Paper Relief Portraits
In the afternoon, we’ll shift into 3D, building layered portraits from coloured card, paper, collage, and foam tape. Inspired by artists like Frida Kahlo, we’ll explore how framing, background symbols, and visual layering can add deeper meaning to a portrait. Each budding artist will go home with a bold, layered creation that celebrates identity, imagination, and self-expression.

By the end of the day, you’ll have a pair of portraits that are as original and expressive as the person who made them … you!

Get ready to see the world differently! In this visually playful, STEM-inspired art workshop, we’ll explore how colour, light, and lenses can trick the eye — and how artists can use that to create magical illusions and layered drawings. From wearable sculpture to secret images, this day is full of discovery and wonder.

Morning Session – Build Your Art Glasses
We’ll start by designing and building a pair of custom art glasses with interchangeable coloured lenses. Look super fly in your new specs — but also, when you look through them, they’ll reveal or hide different parts of your drawings depending on which colours you use! Once the glasses are built, we’ll test how different colours react. Viewed normally, you’ll see everything; viewed through your lenses, half the image will vanish.

Afternoon Session – Illusion Art & Secret Messages
In the afternoon, we’ll apply our optical tricks to a larger layered drawing of an eye, with secret images or messages hidden in plain sight. Focus on contrast, line weight, and placement to control what appears and disappears. You might create two versions of a scene, a hidden world inside a pupil, or even a drawing with a puzzle built in.

A mind-bending day of art, illusion, colour, and creativity — perfect for visual thinkers, tinkerers, and anyone who loves to ask “what if?”

A creative celebration of characters, real, imagined, and somewhere in between!
Budding artists will explore what makes them them through pocket-sized artworks and bold 3D “mini me” sculptures.

Morning Session – Artist Trading Cards
Create a series of custom trading cards featuring original characters, creatures, objects, or mysterious symbols. We’ll explore mini-format design, layout, and eye-catching detail, then laminate each card for a polished, collectible finish. One special card will be your own Artist Trading Card, a playful self-portrait that shows off your unique style and artistic superpower.

Afternoon Session – Character Self Sculptures
Using a Polaroid selfie as a starting point, students will build a playful, expressive sculpture of themselves using wire, tape, cardboard, paper and collage. Each figure will stand tall, full of gesture and attitude, dressed and decorated with personality-packed details. Wings? Capes? Octopus arms? You bet!

A seriously silly day of drawing, sculpting, and turning your creative self into art in 2D and 3D.

Step inside the studio of a curious collector… You!
Explore the strange and wonderful world of curiosities - objects that are part treasure, part mystery. We’ll spend the morning creating our own artefacts using mixed media and imagination, then paint a still life including skulls, hourglasses, and your own curious objects, captured using acrylic on canvas.

Morning Session – Make Your Own Curiosities
Inspired by old-world cabinets of curiosity, students will create a collection of strange and intriguing items using a variety of mixed media materials. Some will be sealed inside jars and labelled, others will be left loose as relics or mysterious mini artefacts. Maybe it’s a dragon tooth, part of an old treasure map, a vial of giant tears, fairy wings, or something else entirely!

Afternoon Session – Acrylic Painting on Canvas
In the afternoon, students will learn foundational acrylic painting techniques as they paint a moody still life from observation. Their scene will include a selection of provided objects alongside one of their handmade curiosities, telling a story through shadow, texture, and composition. Students will sketch, block in shapes, mix colours, and explore light and dark to bring their curious collection to life on canvas.

We cannot wait to see the curious things you create from the wildest parts of your imagination!

Join us for a day of sculpting, where we’ll explore two different types of clay and create fun, functional artworks you’ll be proud to take home. From cheeky game pieces to patterned coil pots, this day is packed with squishing, bending, shaping, and loads of fun!

Morning Session – Polymer Clay XO Game
Make your very own playable Naughts & Crosses (Tic Tac Toe) set to enjoy with family and friends! Budding artists will learn basic sculpting techniques as they create their own custom pieces. Think cats vs. dogs, pizza vs. donuts, sunshine vs. rainclouds, anything goes!

Afternoon Session – Air Dry Clay Coil Pots
In the afternoon, we’ll switch materials and work with air dry clay to build coiled vessels for storing your special treasures. Budding artists will explore the foundational coil technique, not just for structure but for adding sculptural flair. Want to get a little silly? Turn your pot into a monster bowl with added teeth, feet, or horns!

For kids who love making with their hands - come get messy in the best way!

A day of wild accessories, cheeky characters, and your own one-of-a-kind flair!

Morning Session – Painted Shoes
Bring your own canvas shoes and turn them into wearable masterpieces! We'll use fabric paint, paint markers, and aerosol spray techniques to create bold, expressive designs, then seal them so they're ready to hit the streets! From jungle beasts to graffiti vibes to pure pattern chaos, anything goes.

Afternoon Session – “La-Who-Who” Cursed Companions
La-Who-Who? Meet your mischievous sidekick! Using felt, stuffing, and key ring attachments, we’ll craft soft, strange creatures that clip onto your bag or backpack. Maybe it’s cute. Maybe it’s creepy. Maybe it’s both! With pointy teeth, big eyes and weird personalities, your “La-Who-Who” can be whatever theme you want. Come invent a character that’s super unique!

This workshop is for expressive makers and crafters who love character design and letting their personality shine through what they wear!

Let’s draw out your inner artist! Charcoal is a favourite of many famous artists for a reason! Bold, dramatic, and perfect for creating both delicate details and deep shadows. Join us for a focused yet playful day of drawing, where we’ll learn how to see like an artist and use line, tone, and shadow to make our drawings come alive.

Morning Session – Drawing Games & Your Book of Experiments
We’ll warm up with playful charcoal drawing games and collaborative challenges to loosen our hands and sharpen our eyes. You’ll experiment with line, tone, smudging, lifting, and proportion recording your favourite effects in a mini “Charcoal Experiments” book to take home. This will become your own little library of textures and tricks for future art adventures.

Afternoon Session – The Spooky House Challenge
In the afternoon, we’ll put our charcoal skills to work on one big, dramatic scene: a spooky house drawing. We’ll use building-block shapes to construct the house, then layer in eerie details like twisted trees (drawn with your opposite hand for extra wobbly creepiness), mysterious shadows, and glowing windows. A putty eraser will become our “light brush,” lifting creatures, faces, or flickers of light out from the darkness.

Look closely, draw boldly, and make just the right amount of mess to bring your ideas to life!