Life Drawing Sessions

Three sessions : 9/1/26, 6/2/26, 13/3/26 - 6-8pm

A model, easels and drawing boards will be provided, but you will need to bring your own paper and drawing materials. The £31 ticket price covers all three sessions - buy a ticket for the first session in the block, and the other two will be included automatically.

Booking

Hafod Residency Talks 2026
Archie Rogers
A line between rural calm and urban chaos

19 March 2026: 7pm
Archie Rogers is a drawer, painter, and self-taught wood-worker based in Brighton. He graduated from the University of Brighton in 2022 and has since followed his interests in both wood-craft and a fine art practice alongside many curatorial projects across the UK. This talk will explore the intersection between the serenity and wonder of ancient landscapes surrounding us, and the overwhelmingly busy yet mesmerising nature of city life.

This talk is part of the Hafod residency series, in collaboration with Noelle Griffiths. These talks are free to attend, and there is no need to book.

Website: archierogers.cargo.site
Instagram: @ar.chie.art

Hafod Residency Series Talks 2026
Rachel Barlow
Process Made Visible

16 April 2026: 7pm
Rachel Barlow is a London-based painter and art educator. She graduated from the Royal College of Art Painting Programme in 2025, and has a BA in English Literature from Durham University. She is currently represented by Kutlesa Gallery (Switzerland, New York).

Rachel will be speaking on landscape, language, and grief, exploring how these themes have influenced her artistic practice. She will reflect on her childhood experiences of both Wales and Southern Siberia, and consider how landscape can function as a medium for remembrance and contemplation. This will involve a wider discussion of the recent history of landscape painting in the West and the journey to abstraction.

Tracing international episodes of natural disaster and man-made environmental collapse, her talk will identify painting as a kind of catharsis, in which process becomes language and the canvas becomes a story.

This talk is part of the Hafod residency series, in collaboration with Noelle Griffiths. These talks are free to attend, and there is no need to book.

Instagram: @rachelbarlow_art

Hafod Residency Series Talks 2026
Sam Douglas
Stone Journal

14 May 2026: 7pm
Sam Douglas is a painter based near Glasgow, he graduated from Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Much of his research is conducted via the first hand experience of the Scottish landscape, in particular searching out prehistoric sites which have formed the focus of his practice for many years. These places are interpreted in the studio via a range of painting processes that aim to mimic the geological actions of sedimentation via the pouring of resin and varnish and its subsequent erosion by sanding and scratching. Previous strata of paint often emerge like an archaeological fragment and high gloss or built up surfaces encourage active viewing in order to fully apprehend the painting.

This talk is part of the Hafod residency series, in collaboration with Noelle Griffiths. These talks are free to attend, and there is no need to book.

Website: samdouglas.co.uk
Instagram: @samdouglasstudio

Hafod Residency Series Talks 2026
Sue Hunt
Drawing from nature

11 June 2026: 7pm
Based in Wales, Sue Hunt is a painter, printmaker and teacher. She studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art and Design and for an MA Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art. She went on to be a Senior Lecturer teaching Fine Art and printmaking in both Norwich School of Art and Cardiff.

Sue has recently been awarded a Wales Arts International and British Council Grant to travel to Japan, as part of the year of Wales /Japan 2025 where she exhibited in a two-person exhibition in Kyoto and jointly ran an art ‘well-being’ Symposium and workshops in a hospital in Osaka.

"Rooted in drawing, painting, and printmaking, my work leans into abstraction to distill these ideas into visual form. I am particularly interested in how abstracted compositions can serve as a shared language that acknowledge the powerful and activating presence of nature in our lives. This dialogue between process, material, and metaphor is at the heart of my practice, offering a space to reflect on the enduring and ephemeral forces that shape our world. "

This talk is part of the Hafod residency series, in collaboration with Noelle Griffiths. These talks are free to attend, and there is no need to book.

Website: suehunt.co.uk
Instagram: @sue_hunt_paintings

Hafod Residency Series Talks 2026
Cassie Vaughan
The Language of Landscape

9 July 2026: 7pm
Cassie Vaughan completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2023. She was shortlisted for the Hari Art Prize in 2025.

Cassie lives and works in London and has a studio at Thames-side Studios in Woolwich. Her work is concerned with our disconnection from the natural world and the commodification of the earth’s systems and species. Her paintings explore the psychological impact of living in a world we are changing beyond recognition. She draws upon Glenn Albrecht’s concept of solastalgia and species loneliness, a term coined by Michael Vincent McGinness to describe the isolation we feel as we distance ourselves from other species. Her work is rooted in this atmosphere of fragmentation and the potential for new growth it implies. She sees her paintings as nature based spaces that deliberately disrupt the artifice of landscape and the language we use to exploit the natural world.

This talk is part of the Hafod residency series, in collaboration with Noelle Griffiths. These talks are free to attend, and there is no need to book.

Website: cassievaughan.co.uk
Instagram:@cassie_vaughan_

Brondanw Young Artists Club
First Saturday of the month
Time: 10 - 11:30am

The club aims to give children the opportunity to try diferent materials, work with experienced artists and develop their own art practice.

The club is aimed at children aged 6 and above, older children and teenagers are very welcome, we will do our best to tailor the activities to suit the audience.

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