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The Teaching Artist Project offers small-group art sessions for children in community spaces delivered by an experienced teacher and practicing artist. Teen and adult groups coming soon!
Our sessions focus on exploration, experimenting with materials, and creative thinking rather than copying or finished results.
Everyone works differently - and that’s the point.

What to expect

Explore, experiment, and create!
Our afterschool clubs and holiday workshops take children from initial ideas in their sketchbooks to finished artworks, combining hands-on activities, collaborative projects, and reflection.

Children build confidence, creativity, and artistic skills through a rich, engaging creative experience.

Afterschool Clubs Starting April 2026

The Sketchbook Studio - New After School Art Club

Milford Hall Yeovil - Starts Wednesday 22nd April

A weekly KS2 after-school art club led by a qualified teacher and practising artist, offering children a rich, hands-on creative experience beyond the classroom. Sessions are process-led and exploratory, encouraging children to experiment with materials, build confidence, and develop ideas over time.

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The Sketchbook Studio - New After School Art Club

Wyndham Park, Yeovil - Starts Friday 24th April

A smaller group in the Community Hub on Wyndham Park. The Community Hub provides a smaller, more homely venue with spaces for a maximum of 8 children. Available to book now - Early Bird Offer on sale until 28th March.

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COMING SOON - HOLIDAY CLUB DATES!

Recent Blogs

Why I Started The Teaching Artist Project (and Why Sketchbook Studio Exists)

After stepping away from teaching for almost three years, I began to feel the pull to work with children again - specifically to teach art. This blog shares why I started The Teaching Artist Project and how Sketchbook Studio aims to offer children something different: a space to explore materials, develop ideas, and experience art as a creative process.

When Every Child Can Succeed in Art

How process-led art projects allow every child to succeed, experiment, and create something entirely their own. As I reflect on my time as a teacher, particularly the art projects I delivered, one stands out. It remains one of my favourites and offers a perfect example of the power of a process-led approach. The aim of the project was to explore expression through the human figure and translate that exploration into a three-dimensional model using modelling wire and mod-roc.

What Does 'Process-Led' Mean?

Process- led, product-led - what does it all mean and does it really matter? I would say, yes, it matters a whole lot.

Artist-led visual arts projects for children, teens and adults