Event Description
Join award-winning artist Mel Cairns (@i.am.melc) for a fun, fast-and-loose ink illustration workshop where you’ll learn to draw a characterful fluffy cat. Mel will guide you through simple layout, proportions and inky techniques, making this session ideal for complete beginners as well as confident doodlers keen to try a new style or medium.
In a relaxed, informal setting you’ll experiment with expressive line, mark-making and detail, and you’ll leave with a finished cat illustration, mounted and bagged, ready for a 10" x 12" frame. No experience needed and all materials are provided – just bring your curiosity and be ready to play with ink.
Bradenham Art Fair is a four-day celebration of art, craft, music and community at the National Trust’s Manor Farm in Bradenham (HP14 4DF), running over the May Day Bank Holiday, Friday 1 – Monday 4 May 2026. Alongside our programme of fabulous masterclasses, you’ll find curated contemporary art and sculpture in the historic Tythe Barn, courtyard and gardens, demonstrations, drop‑in pottery painting and a collaboratively created glass sculpture in the grounds.
Food and drink will keep you happily fuelled, with coffee, tea, cakes, toasties, Jones’ Pies and Lloyds Wines on offer, plus wine tastings and live music all weekend, including traditional Morris dancing on Friday 1 May. Entry to Bradenham Art Fair is £5 per person (children under 14 go free but still need a ticket), which includes access to the whole site; your entry is included in your masterclass fee. One‑third of door proceeds supports Lindengate, a local mental health and nature charity using the healing power of the outdoors to promote wellbeing and recovery.