It’s been wonderful to meet the children over the past week and begin to get to know them. There was such a buzz of energy and enthusiasm from the start — especially when it came to personalising their sketchbooks. Watching them create their own 'spaces and places' within those pages, making them feel unique and personal, was a real highlight. We began with some drawing exercises to practice observation skills — one of the most important skills an artist can develop, and one that needs...

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.

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