Paint a Cockatoo You Can Actually Feel

Acrylic paint mixed with a thickening medium turns a flat canvas into something with real ridges and peaks. You'll build this cheeky cockatoo up in thick, buttery strokes, and the orange crest is the best bit of all.

It's a wonderfully loose way to paint, and the thicker you go the better it looks. Stand back at the end and the texture does half the work for you.

Handmade Cards Nobody Else Will Have

Design your own cards from scratch, whether you want something plain and elegant, a birthday one-off, a Christmas card or whatever else takes your fancy. We'll help you get the idea in your head onto the paper in front of you.

Envelopes are provided too, and we'll add detail to those so they match the cards and the whole thing looks properly finished. Two hours later you'll have a little stack of cards that nobody else in the world has.

Two Hours of Calm, and a Framed Painting to Take Home

Soft music, a few nibbles and two hours of watercolour with no rush about any of it. You'll paint this wide Australian beach scene and learn how to let the colours run and settle the way watercolour likes to.

Here's the best part: we frame it for you before you leave. You walk out with a finished, framed painting under your arm.

Switch Off, Then Let the Pastels Do the Talking

Phones go on silent and we spend the first part of the evening in guided meditation, calm and quiet, giving your head a proper rest from everything waiting outside. This is an hour and a half set aside purely for you.

Then we move into the artwork, working with soft pastels and following whatever surfaced while you were settled. There's no right answer and no wrong one here, just colour, movement and a piece that came out of your own quiet.