Join visual artist Lindsay Viner in our under 18s art and craft holiday club and celebrate a love of animals in this fun and expressive workshop.

In this workshop you will explore bold colour, pattern and texture through a series of animal-inspired projects.

You will create a vibrant cat collage on canvas – ready to hang the masterpieces at home. You will layer and arrange materials to form expressive cat faces, focusing on strong shapes, symmetry and contrast, bringing personality to yourwork through colour choices and mark-making details.

The session will also introduce pop art–inspired animal portraits. Using bright, contrasting blocks of colour and bold outlines, you will develop their own eye-catching designs. You will experiment with layering, composition and simplified shapes to create dynamic, modern artworks.

Throughout the day, the focus will be on playful experimentation—mixing collage, drawing and painting techniques to achieve striking results. There will also be opportunities to explore additional animal-themed ideas for those who want to extend their work.

This workshop offers a lively, supportive space for you to build confidence with colour and composition while creating artwork full of energy and character.

Tutor: Lindsay Viner
Date & Time: Tuesday 28th July, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Scissors Studio, New Brewery Arts
Price: £60 (£0.00 VAT)

Please note, students will need to be signed in and out of the class by their adult. If your child is taking themselves to and from the class, please notify us beforehand.

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend until 4pm.

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Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is suitable for those aged 8 - 12 years. All abilities are welcome, you just need enthusiasm and a love of making!

What you will need:
All materials are provided.

Please wear clothes you are happy to get messy, or bring an apron.

You will need to bring a packed lunch and drinks bottle.

Students will be supervised during their lunch break by the workshop tutor and volunteer.

Meet Your Tutor - lindsay viner

Lindsay is fascinated by the landscapes, places and stories of those who have gone before us and the ones that we give to those who come after us.

She predominantly use drawing and paint and reclaimed textiles to explore ideas about inheritance. How we receive and process the places, lands, thoughts, feelings and objects (and the marks on these things) that are handed down to us. And what we in turn, both consciously and unconsciously, choose to pass on. As the fourth generation of her family to live on the farm, with her son in the fifth, Lindsay’s work often centres around this particular small slice of the natural world in which she feels profoundly embedded.

​Reclaimed textiles have inherent notions of previous stories, often with coupled the intimacy of being associated with the body or the domestic, that can hold unique resonances; drawing and paint, for her, has a newness and immediacy that connects her to the subject in present, at that singular moment when her brush meets the canvas or paper.

Lindsay is passionate about encouraging other's creativity, and about the potential role for art and craft in our mental wellbeing and has worked as an artist and workshop leader for community groups, and particularly support groups for those with anxiety and depression for over 5 years.