Experience the festival through drawing at the Royal Drawing School Pop Up Studio
Drawing can be direct, incisive, intimate, surprising, funny or confrontational. It is a primary language natural to all human beings. Everyone can draw. Drawing from observation encourages an active engagement with the visual world around us, connecting what we see with how we think, it can help us get our thoughts in order or open up the imagination mind.
This year at Hay, the Royal Drawing School will be running drawing sessions everyday, from Drawing a Head or Drawing the Figure to Drawing the Graphic Novel and Drawing from Film. Sessions are taught by faculty of the Royal Drawing School, all of whom are practising artists. Sessions are open to all levels and all ages (unless otherwise stated) and paper, drawing boards, pencils and rubbers are provided. So whether you’re 8 or 80 pick up a pencil and draw with us at Hay.
Our pop up studio can be found at Hay Festival in the NFU Mutual Studio. Booking for our sessions can be found on the Hay Festival website under the genre 'Drawing'.
Hay Festival
For 27 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to transform our way of thinking. Hay believe the exchange of views and meeting of minds that our festivals create inspire revelations personal, political and educational. Hay is, in Bill Clinton’s phrase, ‘The Woodstock of the mind’.
Hay Festival was founded around a kitchen table in 1987 and continues to attract the most exciting writers, filmmakers, comedians, politicians and musicians to inspire, delight and entertain.
For 10 days in May, Hay is full of stories, ideas, laughter and music.