A collaborative portrait displayed in the glass link corridor and visible from the road.

Artists from The Whitecroft Studio first created the portrait in 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. It is a combination of forty nine individual canvasses to produce this unique portrait.

The Whitecroft Studio are a group of artists, both local and from around the world, working together in a studio in Berkshire, benefiting from a tapestry of ideas emerging from their diverse cultural origins.

•  18 May FREE
•  19 May FREE
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Led by professional artists Amelia Pimlott and Caroline Crawford.

The Creative Arts Social Club is a creative programme for older people. Get crafty with a range of arts activities, painting, drawing, sculpture and more with support from group leaders Caroline Crawford and Amelia Pimlott.

At The Creative Arts Social Club you can learn new skills, meet new people and try something new. Come along and meet likeminded people in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.

Wed 8 Jun - 10 Aug 11am - 1pm
Sessions will be taking place in the Cafe Bar area
£100 per 10 week course including all materials

Please get in touch if you are in need of transport to the classes, we have links to some great community transport charities and will be able to help.

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The Dash Charity are working on a new creative collaboration with Artist Amelia Pimlott and Norden Farm.

The Dash community will create some stunning artworks during workshops held at Norden Farm to celebrate creativity. Participants will decorate and fill a willow and tissue tree sculpture with colour and life, stories, hopes and dreams.

Dash have provided tutoring and support in a variety of creative arts to local families who have been affected by domestic abuse. The artwork produced forms an exhibition to showcase the stories of survivors, celebrate our Monarch’s 70 years on the throne and raise awareness locally of The Dash Charity and their work.

Dash are proud to be a community group based in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, a borough which holds so much royal history and of course has provided the place that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II calls home.

Learn more about The Dash Charity and the work they do here.

Norden Farm Gallery

Free Entry

Thur 26 May - Sat 4 Jun

•  26 May FREE
•  27 May FREE
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Led by Helen D Evans

Create a series of hand formed work out of clay. Try out a different technique each week with the aim to have at least 4 pieces of work by the end of the course.

Week 1: An introduction to the basics of Pinch Pots and attaching coils
Week 2: Using coils for decoration
Week 3: Upside down coiling
Week 4: Making sculpture by using coils / joining pinch pots together
Week 5 & 6 : Decorating your work with Underglazes or Glazes

Friday 10 June - Friday 15 July
11am - 1pm
£160 for the course

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Led by Jo Hall

Over the six weeks we will reference natural forms, and habitats such as rock pools, hedgerows or wooded landscape with their associated plants and creatures to create compositions with a lot of texture and pattern.

Techniques will include knife painting, glazing over colour and monochrome, embedding and impressing forms like seed heads or grasses, incorporating a collaged element, sgraffito.

Please bring your own materials and equipment as in the detailed information below.

Tues 21 Jun - 26 Jul
12.30pm - 1.30pm
£120 for the six week course

Materials
Acrylic paints and brushes
Palette knife and two painting knives
Suitable support (canvas board, canvas, heavy mixed media or watercolour paper preferably primed with gesso)
Stay wet palette
Matte medium (also glaze and texture medium not essential but useful)
Slow drying medium (that is a medium which slows down drying time enabling more time for blending)
Paper towel, water pots
Table easel, drawing board, tape to fix paper
Sketchbook to plan composition and colour notes.

Some mixed media paper will be available at cost
Reference will be available and you will be encouraged to bring your own.
Do bring a textured natural form for the first meeting; piece of driftwood or similar would be good.

Contact Jo at johall@mhstudios.co.uk if you have questions about the course content or materials.

•  21 Jun from £120
•  28 Jun
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Led by Kim Wright.

An eco friendly course in making flowers for yours (or someone else's) wedding.

It is suitable for those who are new to floral design as well as those with some experience.

Learn how to create wedding bouquets, buttonholes, head crowns, table centrepiece, pedestals and an arch - all in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way.

In this course you will be shown traditional methods of arranging flowers and also floral foam free alternatives.

Wednesday 15 June - 20 July
11am - 1pm
£294 for 6 week course

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