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The best place to read what is happening @ Artroom BrightonDoing your Duke of Edinburgh Awards’ Skills at Artroom Brighton!
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...
Katharine McEwen visits Artroom!
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...
What happens at an Artroom Workshop?
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...
Roger Dean’s message to Artroom!
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...
Roger Dean to visit Artroom!
(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...
Kerry Beall visits Artroom!
(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,...
Thames & Hudson Miró workshop: the results!
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’...
Artroom pupils to help illustrate a Thames & Hudson book on Miró!
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...
Artroom Advent
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...
Axel ‘The Gruffalo’ Scheffler visits Art Room!
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...
Banksy 'WOWS@ Artroom work!
Artroom was thrilled recently to receive a genuine note of support and indeed praise from the legendary urban artist, Banksy. The note is shown below for our friends to see too! "Dear Class - WOW!! I have just seen pictures of your art and i'm BLOWN AWAY!!! You are...
Ralph Steadman’s visit a HUGE success!
We were also fortunate enough to see him create some ink paintings and give us a rendition of his 'blot symphony'. Thanks Ralph! And if that wasn't enough, he also sent us a glowing testimonial that we will always be very proud of, as shared with our friends below:...