Hands-On Creative Workshops
Learn a technique. Create your own story.
Join artist and creative wellbeing facilitator Jessi Levy for a series of relaxed, hands-on creative workshops at Riverside Studios.
Each session introduces a different artistic process, with gentle guidance to get you started and plenty of freedom to experiment, follow your curiosity and make something that is entirely your own.
There is no pressure to create something “good” or achieve a particular result. The focus is on the experience of making — slowing down, playing with materials and discovering what emerges.
No previous art experience is needed. All materials are provided. Come on your own or with a friend or family member.
Each Hands-On Creative Workshop stands alone, so you can join whichever session speaks to you — or return throughout the season to experience different ways of making.
Saturday 26th September — Water & Colour: Letting Chance Lead
Explore water, colour and movement through playful experiments. Watch colours flow, meet and change, allowing chance and unpredictability to become part of the creative process. Follow what emerges and develop it into your own piece.
Water — letting go • unpredictability • flow
Saturday 10th October — Creative Collage: Cut, Layer & Tell Your Story
Explore images, painted papers, words, colours and textures, selecting and combining what catches your attention. Layer, rearrange and experiment until your own composition begins to emerge.
Collage — choosing • combining • personal narrative
Saturday 17th October — Mandala: Pattern, Colour & Slow Making
Discover the calming rhythm of pattern and repetition. Starting with a few simple principles, build your mandala gradually through line, shape and colour, allowing the process to become as important as the finished piece.
Mandala — slowing down • repetition • attention
Saturday 7th November — Air-Dry Clay: Shape, Texture & Play
Reconnect with the simple sensory pleasure of working with your hands. Explore shaping, pressing, imprinting and texture before following your own ideas to create something personal.
Clay — touch • grounding • shaping
Sunday 22th November — Water & Colour: Letting Chance Lead
Return to water and colour, or discover the workshop for the first time. Experiment with flow, droplets, blending and unexpected marks, letting the materials lead before developing what you discover into your own artwork.
Water — letting go • unpredictability • flow
Saturday 5th December — Air-Dry Clay: Shape, Texture & Play
A second opportunity to slow down and explore the tactile qualities of clay. Learn simple techniques for shaping and adding texture, then take the process in your own direction.
Clay — touch • grounding • shaping
Saturday 12th December — Handmade with Meaning: A Creative Gift Workshop
Step away from the Christmas rush and spend some time making something with meaning.
Create a small handmade piece for someone you care about, or as a gift to yourself. Through simple materials, textures, words and symbols, explore what you would like your piece to hold or communicate.
The emphasis isn’t on making the “perfect” gift, but on the thought, intention and care behind it.
Handmade with Meaning — connection • giving • intention
ABOUT JESSI
Jessi Levy is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, integrative counsellor and creative wellbeing facilitator.
Her work explores creativity as a way to slow down, experiment and reconnect with ourselves and others.
Through Art in Mind, Jessi creates accessible creative experiences that combine simple artistic techniques with the freedom to explore. Her approach is rooted in the belief that creativity belongs to everyone — you don’t need to know how to draw, paint or consider yourself “artistic” to experience the joy of making.
Instagram: @art_in_mind_workshop