Summer Drawing Club with Amanda Beck

Join us for a creative summer adventure in the park. Drawing people, nature and architecture under the expert supervision of Art Educator, Amanda Beck.

Unleash your drawing talent in the picturesque surroundings of Saltaire with the Summer Drawing Club.

When weather permits, we'll explore Roberts Park and the stunning architecture of Saltaire, capturing nature's beauty and the bustling life around us with pencil and paper.

If it rains, we'll retreat to the cosy gallery and delve into still life or study the works of great masters, ensuring every session is brimming with inspiration.

Extra info:
- We meet every Tuesday for the duration of the course at 6:30 at the gallery (13a Victoria Road, Saltaire)
- Sketchbooks, pencils and other materials are supplied
- Some camping chairs are available in the gallery
- The course is fully taught from beginners to advanced

About Amanda

Amanda is a local Yorkshire Artist and Arts Educator with a passion for drawing on location and sharing her enthusiasm for recording everyday life through the medium of sketchbooks.  She has a wealth of teaching experience running courses for museums, community groups and arts organisations.  Before relocating back to Yorkshire, she spent 10 years working for the University of Oxford Museum’s service based in the Ashmolean Museum facilitating arts events, sketching tours and festivals. She worked alongside curators from the Ashmolean’s Western Art Print Room to run tours and talks exploring original works of art from the 15th century to the present-day including Raphael, Michelangelo, Degas and Ruskin, among others. 

She has worked as a Reportage Artist (the art of visual storytelling) to document live music events, circus performers and engineers building Classic and Vintage cars.  A major highlight of her art career was an Artist’s residency documenting the fabrication of the Blue Whale Skeleton ‘Hope’ which now hangs in Hintze Hall in the Natural History Museum in London. She was commissioned by Research Casting International Canada Ltd and completed over 50 paintings behind the scenes during a 5-month period.  She then went on to sketch dinosaurs being built in RCI’s workshop in Canada. 

‘I feel very lucky to live in beautiful Yorkshire where I enjoy painting on location.  I am a regular visitor to Saltaire and I am fascinated by its rich history and heritage. I love to sketch from life, capturing the moment and energy of people and places.  I’ve honed my observational drawing skills through regular and consistent life drawing. I take my sketchbook everywhere as there is always an opportunity to draw even if it’s just for 10 minutes’