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If your child is aged 14 years or over and looking for a way to complete the Skills section of their Bronze or Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards, Artroom can help! Over the last 70 years more than two and a half million teenagers in the UK alone have had their lives...

Last Saturday Artroom was pleased to welcome the children’s illustrator and author Katharine McEwen to our studio, after she very kindly agreed to come and talk to some of our younger pupils about the life of a professional artist. Kate’s work has featured in over...

Here at Artroom we have many pupils who come to our term-time courses term after term, but for one reason or another, they may never have attended one of our school holiday workshops. During each half-term course with our younger classes, we build a picture...

So Roger Dean has been and gone having paid a visit to our studio last Saturday; it was another great success to add to the ever growing list of artistic dignitaries who have passed through our doors in order to spread knowledge and wisdom to our eager pupils. Mr Dean...

(Above) Blue Desert (c) Roger Dean 2003 It’s become something of an Artroom fixture at this time of year, for us to have a famous artist making a special visit through our doors to encourage and inspire our pupils with a demonstration and talk about their own...

(Above) Pupil's art inspired by the work of Kerry Beall Part of our ethos at Artroom Brighton is our belief that our pupils should be able to meet living, working artists whenever possible. Which is why, last term, we ran a two week course for our GCSE class,...

Our final workshop of the half-term was made a bit more special by the involvement of two guests from the publishing house of Thames &Hudson. Sarah and Jane are, as Designer and Editor, part of the team putting together ‘The Boy Who Took the Artist to the Zoo’...

We are extremely excited to announce our involvement in Thames & Hudson’s upcoming book, ‘The Boy Who Took the Artist to the Zoo’ (provisional title) by Anthony Penrose, which will follow on from the author’s hugely popular, ‘The Boy Who Bit Picasso’. As the son...

Christmas is over for another year: the trees have come down and been discarded (responsibly of course); the decorations are packed away. All that remains is an excess of mince pies and happy memories. If you follow Artroom Brighton on Twitter you will know that...

On Saturday 22nd November, Art Room Brighton was extremely pleased and honoured to have another very special guest visitor: Axel Scheffler, the illustrator behind the wonderful artwork of classic children’s stories, ‘The Gruffalo’, ‘Room on the Broom’, ‘Zog’ and ‘The...