SPRING HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2026

It’s time to throw open the doors to the Gallery Space at Addison Road Community Centre as we draw in SPRING! Starting with Creative Collage & Carbon Cut-outs we’ll work our way through fashioning a Glorious Garden Pop-up Patch to designing our very own Peculiar Pets, step into Shadow Shapes, Patterns & Pallets and end with entering the world of Colourful Characters & Sticky Stories. Come in from the sunshine, sip some water & cool down as we work our way through an assortment of creative collaborative drawing journeys through the beautiful blooms & blinding sunlight of this beautiful blossoming season!

Creative Collage & Carbon Cut-outs

It’s no secret that I collect carbon paper, the ‘magic’ paper I revel in showing students how to use to copy things & to make mysterious marks. EVERYONE also knows I LOVE to collage and go c-c-crazy for mark making. In a wonderfully creative collaboration, I have decided to bring three of my very favourite things together for a day of exploration, experimentation and play! In this Workshop we will build our drawing compositions by tracing, copying, cutting & collaging until everything busts from the page in a lovely, layered SPRING surprise.

Ages 5+

Monday 28th Sept 10:00 - 4:00

Glorious Garden Pop-up Patch

When SPRING SPRUNG last week, I noticed little patches of BLOOM everywhere & decided to draft & craft this Workshop so we could all carry our very own little patch of joy with us no matter the season. So, on this day we will spend time looking at & drawing botanical beauty to build our own paper Pop-up Patch bursting with fabulous foliage & brilliant blooms (& maybe inhabited by some cute critters). Come create a little patch of SPRING for your pocket.

Ages 5+

Tuesday 29th Sept 10:00 - 4:00

Peculiar Pets

If you could create your very own peculiar pet, what would it be? A chic chicken, beguiling bug, rumbustious rat, dopey Das-hound or soaring swallow? The list is as infinite as the imagination BUT in this Workshop we’ll work out ways to realise our perfect Peculiar Pet though sublime stencils & silly (back) stories to create the perfect companion to our match our mad imaginations.

Ages 5+

Wednesday 30th Sept 10:00 - 4:00

Shadow Shapes, Patterns & Pallets

As the Spring sunlight hangs around for a little longer & the sun gets a little higher in the sky I thought we should take the opportunity to collaborate with the sunshine to create a drawing of light & shadow. In this Workshop we’ll let cast silhouetted shapes & light filtered forms do the work for us as we use a little ink & a lot of inspiration to create textured papers and compose creative compositions drawing with light to celebrate the l-o-n-g-e-r sunlit days.

Image Source: Unverified (MA 2020)

Ages 5+

Thursday 1st Oct 10:00 - 4:00

Colourful Characters & Sticky Stories

In this Workshop my aim is to help students realise the potential of Post-it notes as a very useful, often underrated, paper source. Coming in a variety of colours and sizes, Post-it notes are the perfect mini canvases to fill with colourful characters, thought-provoking scenes & a simply brilliant way of building a visual display of sticky (interchangeable) stories. We’ll spend the day arranging & re-arranging graphic (biro) narratives to our hearts content without any of the painful reworking that might entail less of a versatile support.

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 2nd Oct 10:00 - 4:00