Hands-on Art Adventures

Highly recommended location where children and grown-​ups can immerse themselves in different art techniques and receive expert coaching. Hands-​on Art Adventures is a well chosen name that describes the wide variety of things available to do at this centre. Although just opened (in Jan11), there are already many different experiences on offer — organised at various times of the week. Within the last month, I’ve now been twice with my children.
At one session we chose pottery painting and were provided with a selection of designs, lots of colours and painting tools to add interesting touches to the models. There’s a professional kiln installed on site which is run after your work is dipped in glaze, then a few days later the finished figurines looked great.
At our second visit, we tried acrylic painting on canvas with the theme of copying an abstract style. This was a clever approach to introducing a particular art movement and artist to my children who were encouraged to create their own interpretation of the style. Grown-​ups are encouraged to join in, but this was when I realised my children are much better artists than I am!