A working art studio, not a paint-and-sip franchise.
Classes, open studio time and original art for sale, taught by practising artists. Beginners genuinely welcome.
A converted mill outbuilding, still a working studio.
Mulberry Lane opened in 2010 in a mill outbuilding that had sat empty for years. It still has the same brick walls and skylights, and the old machinery pits are still visible in the floor of the ceramics room. It was never dressed up to look like a studio. It already was one.
The six artists teaching here also sell their own work from the same building, which is the actual point of the place. A tutor who is still making things gives feedback a full-time instructor with no current practice generally can’t.
Three ways in.
Every tutor here still makes and sells their own work — you are learning from practitioners, not instructors reading a script.
Classes and courses
Drawing, painting and ceramics, from six-week terms to single drop-in sessions.
Open studio membership
Access to studio space and equipment, for anyone working on their own projects.
Original art
Work by our resident artists, for sale directly from the studio.
What happens next
Pick a class or membership
Browse what’s running, or ask what suits a genuine beginner.
Turn up, materials included
No need to buy anything before your first session.
Keep going, at your pace
Some people do one term, some have been coming for a decade.
Six resident artists, one building.
Founded in 2010 in a converted mill outbuilding.
“Never picked up a paintbrush before, and from the first class the tutors treated me like an artist finding their feet, not a beginner to be humoured.”
Dawn C., HOLLAND PARK
Book a class
Beginner-friendly, materials included, no experience needed.