Experimental Drawing Club, Trowbridge

Experimental Drawing Club, Trowbridge Weekly Experimental Drawing Club at SILT Studio led by Alison Ballance All sessions aim to be as accessible and fun as possible.

Process-led art courses in Trowbridge: Watercolour Sessions, Experimental Drawing Club, Occasional Outdoor Sketching Group - no experience needed, beginners very welcome. Choose the dates that suit you - email me for full course details

Experimental Drawing Club this Week: Kimono and the Heron - a gentle and straightforward session where we created our o...
23/06/2026

Experimental Drawing Club this Week: Kimono and the Heron - a gentle and straightforward session where we created our own colourful and abstract designs using ink and colour wash inspired by early C20th Kimono and interior patterns. Lots of incredible palette making, people took their time to match simple combinations with super effective results. Well done everyone - especially in this heat!

Also thank yous to for bringing in her beautiful kimono for people to see 👘 and to for the ice lollies 🧊

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

Moths and Butterflies - I demo'ed wet-in-wet & wet-on-dry watercolour techniques and we talked about what we could do wi...
16/06/2026

Moths and Butterflies - I demo'ed wet-in-wet & wet-on-dry watercolour techniques and we talked about what we could do with this theme: straightforward flat-plans, kaleidoscope patterns, symbols of Psyche, ideas of renewal and change, a play with process and colour. Beautiful result and a very calming session - Jackie Morris’ artwork for the ‘Moth’ in Lost Spells was excellent inspiration. Beautiful Work! p.s. it’s also coming up to that time of year for the big Butterfly Count.

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see our website for more opportunities ✨️

Experimental Drawing Club's publication this term, 'Drawn by Swans' is a collection of fantastic self portraits Lino pri...
09/06/2026

Experimental Drawing Club's publication this term, 'Drawn by Swans' is a collection of fantastic self portraits Lino prints that the artists have recently made. This week everyone constructed the accordion bound portfolio books to which the prints will be added at the end of term. Wonderful work everyone, each one is specific to the person making it. Really looking forward to seeing the finished results.

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

Swap n Collage: An idea suggested by Grace which I thought was brilliant. Everyone brings inold work that they won’t be ...
02/06/2026

Swap n Collage: An idea suggested by Grace which I thought was brilliant. Everyone brings in
old work that they won’t be using again, everyone swaps with everyone else and recreate them
into increadibe collages and new artworks.This session brings up ideas of editing from sorting through previous work, thinking about what you’re prepared to give to another artist, working with someone else’s palette and marking making. Good chats about recent travels, colour and dementia patients, sociability, the NHS and hybrid practices. Dreamy artworks made, well done everyone.

Oh the heavens! Clouds in watercolour this week - airy made-up skyscapes, favourite places, reflections, dreamy pools of...
19/05/2026

Oh the heavens! Clouds in watercolour this week - airy made-up skyscapes, favourite places, reflections, dreamy pools of apricots and moments of the sun coming through. Well done everyone - hope you all have a good half term! xx

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

The lino printing session! Building on the material gathered from last week, we looked at print works by David Nash, Eri...
12/05/2026

The lino printing session! Building on the material gathered from last week, we looked at print works by David Nash, Eric Ravilious, Amy Jeffs and Angela Harding to finalised our self portait plate designs. After drawing and  cutting, we inked and printed - the results are so good.

Mainly we learnt to trust the process, start very simply and enjoy making adjustments along the way. Well done every one, especially because self portrait is a massive subject matter, you've all made varied and excellent work Xx

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see our website for more opportunities ✨️

This week’s Experimental Drawing Club we explored how to interpret Self portraiture in a range of ways. Motifs, patterns...
06/05/2026

This week’s Experimental Drawing Club we explored how to interpret Self portraiture in a range of ways. Motifs, patterns and symbols that were relevant to ourselves, drawing from memory, abstracting the face and some straightforward observation techniques in dry media. All in prep for next week’s Lino printing session. I forgot to take pics of the Monday group so images from yesterday’s session only - but great work made then too ☺️

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

This week’s session was Edens and we focused on Greens and the paradises that came out of creating colour palettes - we’...
28/04/2026

This week’s session was Edens and we focused on Greens and the paradises that came out of creating colour palettes - we’re so sensitive to greens that it’s a great idea to have a play with one yellow and one blue and try and get a full range of hues. Also concentrating on something technical was a great way to relaxed our imaginations - beautiful green spaces came about. Also lots. of lovely tales of tulips and travels.

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

Today we did “Hatching*” looking at a technique as old as the hills and used in most art forms across the world and time...
21/04/2026

Today we did “Hatching*” looking at a technique as old as the hills and used in most art forms across the world and timelines. An in-depth look at how to build tone in drawing and printing. We started with a few exercises looking closely at copies of different prints (drypoint, woodblock, etching) and how artists have approached hatching in multiple style and then moved onto colour hatching with oil pastels. All the vibrant colours and vibrating lines - yum all round xx *beautiful observation from one of the artists after I introduced the session who asked how/if the ‘Hatching’ related to Spring Time - if only my brain was that agile!

Incredible colours at the sketching trip to All Saints Church in Clifton, Bristol to draw the John Piper windows made in...
14/04/2026

Incredible colours at the sketching trip to All Saints Church in Clifton, Bristol to draw the John Piper windows made in the mid 1960s. We did a range of 10 to 20mins exercises to engage with church’s internal architecture: 1) continuous line drawings; 2) noting all the verticals, horizontals, diagonals and rounds in different media; 2) big colour and line studies of small details; 4) finding the multiple colour hues within the fibreglass itself eg cyans, ultramarine, Prussian blues and indigos.

It was good to think about huge stories of creation and life in such a beautiful space. Thank you to Wendy at All Saints Church in Clifton who was so welcoming - she says that they regularly have architecture students who visit and is always happy to have artists in the space.

Good chats: Disobedience; creative Gritty Bits of Stuff; Wendy’s chair from the church’s 1860s era - it says ‘Men Only’ and she takes great pleasure in sitting on it every day

Experimental Drawing Club is led by as part of weekly art programme, see out website for more opportunities ✨️

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SILT Studio, St George’s Mews, Silver Street
Trowbridge
BA148GZ

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Wednesday 10am - 12:30pm

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