Real Arts Workshops

Real Arts Workshops 'RAW' provides high quality creative and BSL workshops for all ages to groups and organisations.

Some wonderful pencil drawings of Dudley Castle keep made by participants at the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at West Park ...
02/06/2026

Some wonderful pencil drawings of Dudley Castle keep made by participants at the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at West Park Hospital today. We're looking forward to seeing these develop next week.

Also, Gary led a BSL bingo game linked to fingerspelling the letters of the alphabet. This is a great and fun way of reinforcing learning.



Supported by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Charity - Charity No. 1059467 and DDC Engineering.

We're excited to be starting a recycled / up-cycled art project at Hope Community Project (Wolverhampton) next week. Her...
02/06/2026

We're excited to be starting a recycled / up-cycled art project at Hope Community Project (Wolverhampton) next week.
Here is a lovely idea to help you get out in nature which some of our activities are linked to ...

Todays's session at West Park Hospital was a mix of BSL, foreshortening drawing and varnishing rocks for the hospital ga...
26/05/2026

Todays's session at West Park Hospital was a mix of BSL, foreshortening drawing and varnishing rocks for the hospital garden.

Gary decided to stay on point and teach signs for the WEATHER! The first one showing the sign for summer (we know it's not officially summer yet - but it sure felt like it today!! 😂😎🌞)

Then Alex led a session about the meaning of 'foreshortening' and how it has been used in paintings, drawings and photography over time. The participants did some lovely foreshortening drawings and we had a brilliant discussion about it, especially focused on how the Salvador Dali painting of Christ of St John on the Cross brought back a personal childhood memory for one of the people in the group. An example of art breaking through barriers and connecting with people.

These sessions work well with all sorts of groups, including staff 'away' / team building days or inclusion / social responsibility policies.

Get in touch to find out more about how we could work together with your organisation, and see our website for lots of free BSL / Art resources: https://www.realartsworkshops.co.uk/free-resources.html

Last week's art session at West Park Hospital NRU was all about keeping things in perspective!Alex showed some examples ...
26/05/2026

Last week's art session at West Park Hospital NRU was all about keeping things in perspective!

Alex showed some examples of perspective being used in some famous drawings and paintings and then the participants created their own sketches of one point and two point perspective.

In last week's BSL session at West Park Hospital NRU, Gary showed the group how to ask questions.Scroll to see a slide a...
26/05/2026

In last week's BSL session at West Park Hospital NRU, Gary showed the group how to ask questions.

Scroll to see a slide about how to sign the 'wh...' questioning words and a slide showing an example of the word order - ie: how the question form tends to come last in the BSL order.

These sessions work well with all sorts of groups, including staff 'away' / team building days or inclusion / social responsibility policies.

Get in touch to find out more about how we could work together with your organisation, and see our website for lots of free BSL resources: https://www.realartsworkshops.co.uk/free-resources.html

Tune into WCR FM this morning at 9am to hear one of RAW's directors Alex Vann in conversation with Chris Allen 📻Click th...
24/05/2026

Tune into WCR FM this morning at 9am to hear one of RAW's directors Alex Vann in conversation with Chris Allen 📻
Click the 'listen live' button here:
https://www.wcrfm.com/shows/chrisallen/

We’re really pleased to share the first edition of our brand new Real Arts Workshops newsletter with you. This Spring up...
24/05/2026

We’re really pleased to share the first edition of our brand new Real Arts Workshops newsletter with you. This Spring update includes highlights from our recent work across schools, healthcare settings and community projects, along with news about our new creative wellbeing workshops for organisations and teams.

We've had a busy and exciting start to 2026, from collaborative projects with young people and NHS partners to our ongoing art and BSL sessions supporting recovery at West Park Hospital’s Neuro Rehabilitation Unit. We’re also introducing a developing strand of our work called EVOLVE which is focused on supporting staff wellbeing, inclusion and team connection through creative experiences.

If you are planning activity around awareness days, staff development, community engagement or wellbeing programmes this year, we would love to explore how we might work together.

The newsletter is also available on our website (link below) where you can also find a PDF version with live links if you open it in a Reader that supports those.

Thank you for continuing to support Real Arts Workshops and enjoy reading the news, you can download a PDF with active links at the end of this post.
Yours in art,
the RAW team.

https://www.realartsworkshops.co.uk/blog--news/new-style-spring-newsletter

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