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Frances Stanfield Playful Portraits

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The Art Studio

Limited walk-in spaces available 

At some point, everyone’s mind gets in the way of their drawing. Whether it's self-doubt about your abilities, feeling overly attached to your work halfway through and not pushing on, or overthinking how to start in the first place. These obstacles can hinder your drawing and enjoyment of making a drawing. This class is perfect for learning fearless and focused drawing techniques whilst getting to enjoy the experience of drawing portraits!

With the guidance of tutor and artist, Frances Stanfield you will be taken through the value of reworking the same portrait with a series of short exercises to help embolden your drawing technique. Starting with activities designed to help you loosen up and build confidence, you will explore how to depict the shapes of your subjects. As the class progresses, you will experiment with reworking and refining your initial drawings, transforming initial impressions into expressive, layered and lively portraits. 

No experience or drawing partner necessary – just bring yourself, your enthusiasm and some silliness!

London Drawing Group runs mainly online art classes that are all pay-what-you-can. They believe high quality art classes should be available to everyone whatever their level or financial situation. London Drawing Group was co-founded by artists Frances Stanfield, Lucy McGeown and Luisa-Maria MacCormack who met whilst studying together on a scholarship at the Royal Drawing School Central. They are now joined by Lily Holder who teaches their life drawing classes and a number of other guest tutors who specialise in a wide range of drawing-based practices!

Frances, as well as being a founding member of London Drawing Group is also a practicing artist working in drawing, printmaking and painting. She is also the author of two books - The Drawing Ideas Book and The Printmaking Ideas Book which can be found in most major UK bookshops and online including the Tate bookshop, Waterstones and Foyles.

Please note - you must have a weekend festival ticket to book an experience at Wilderness.

Refunds & Exchanges

  • Please note extra experience bookings are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
  • Experiences will only be held for 15 minutes, after that tickets are subject to resale and will be automatically cancelled without refund.

Feasting Experiences

  • All our menus are designed as nut-free, but please be aware all our food is prepared in kitchens where nuts, gluten, and other allergens may be present.
  • Feasting Experiences can only facilitate dietary requirements as outlined on the individual chef's booking page.
  • Unless specified otherwise on the individual chef page, there is a vegetarian alternative menu for the Long Table Banquets, Wilderness Kitchen and Ben Quinn’s Long Table Banquet in the Woods. These will be outlined on the website menu or coming soon if not currently showing. Vegan alternatives can be made available, subject to registering via the dietaries form.
  • If you need to register any dietary requirements for your booked feasting experiences for yourself, or others in your group, please do so HERE.
  • If you are booking for a group, please consider other people’s dietary requirements, we are in a field so don’t have readily available alternatives.
  • The Yoga Brunch & Supper Club menus are vegetarian/vegan as standard.
  • Due to the style of the offering, The Chef’s Table cannot accommodate any dietary requirements other than those displayed on the individual chef pages.
  • Babies and little ones can sit on parents' laps at all restaurants except for The Chef's Table. If they're in a pram please ask on arrival to be seated at the end of a table. Please note, we don't have a dedicated children's menu, so if you’re planning to have them eat with you they’ll need to be booked as an additional seat.
  • Ben Quinn’s Long Table Banquet in the Woods will take place come rain or shine as we have a beautiful canopy in the woodland to use in the event of rain so you don’t miss your meal!

Outdoor Experiences

  • Outdoor experiences will take place come rain or shine.
  • For any outdoor experiences taking place outside of the arena, unless specified otherwise on the individual booking page, please meet 15 minutes before the designated start time at the Wilderness Meeting Point where you will be met and guided to your experience.

The Spa

  • You must bring your own towel.

Wellbeing in the Wild Experiences

  • Meet 20 minutes before the designated start time at the Wellbeing in the Wild Meeting Point, located next to the Sanctuary Reception. Your teacher will then accompany you to the relevant location for your session.
  • In adverse weather conditions, please still head to the Wellbeing in the Wild Meeting Point, as most sessions will still go ahead come rain or shine. Any sessions that cannot go ahead will be automatically refunded within 2 weeks post-festival. We do not offer refunds if you decide not to join a session that still goes ahead.

Order Confirmations & More Info

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  • You’ll need a copy of the lead booker’s I.D. and your confirmation email (printed or screenshotted on your phone) to check in. Group bookings must arrive together.