Painting and Mindfulness - Ravenshead Library - Adult Learning

Tue Jan 07 2025 at 09:30 am to Tue Feb 11 2025 at 12:30 pm UTC+00:00

Ravenshead Library | Nottingham

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Painting and Mindfulness - Ravenshead Library - Adult Learning
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About this Event

Key details
  • Date: 7 January - 11 February 2025
  • Sessions: Tuesdays: 9:30am - 12:30pm
  • No. sessions: 6
  • Venue: Ravenshead Library, Nottingham
  • For ages: 19+
  • Group size: 5 - 12
  • Cost: FREE - £63



About this course

Unleash your creativity and find inner peace with our Painting and Mindfulness for Beginners course. Designed for those new to both painting and mindfulness, the course offers a unique blend of artistic expression and meditative practices.

Over a series of engaging, hands-on sessions, you will learn foundational painting techniques while also exploring mindfulness exercises to help you stay present and relaxed.

No prior experience is needed – just bring your curiosity and an open mind. Join us to create beautiful artwork and cultivate a sense of calm and well being.


  • Cultivate a mindfulness practice that supports their overall well-being and creativity
  • Basic concepts of mindfulness
  • Combining mindfulness and art to enhance creativity
  • Reflecting on personal growth through art and mindfulness
  • How to express emotions through art
  • Using nature and personal experiences an inspiration
  • Basic painting techniques and mindful sketching
  • Displaying and discussing completed works


By the end of this course, you will have created a painting that reflect your unique artistic voice and a newfound confidence in your ability to create a painting with a contemporary flair. Learners will complete at least one work on canvas.

Resources required:

  • Acrylic paper/sketch pad, A4 canvas, white gesso, a range of synthetic paint brushes, photo reference, metallic palette knife, watercolour or acrylic paint (student grade)
  • Red (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red,
  • Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow),
  • Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean),
  • Magenta , Turquoise, Titanium white

The art materials are to be discussed during the first session of the course when the tutor will cover the topic.



Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

  • Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
  • Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required). As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:


  • Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
  • Greater London
  • Greater Manchester
  • Liverpool City Region
  • Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
  • Tees Valley
  • West of England
  • West Midlands
  • West Yorkshire



Any questions?

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Ravenshead Library, Milton Court, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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