Join illustrator Stella Murphy for a relaxed, beginner-friendly drawing workshop with a playful, surreal twist.

You'll begin with calming, repetitive mark-making exercises to help you settle in and explore new textures. From there, you'll spend time observing a selection of objects and breaking them down into simple forms.

Using your imagination, you'll expand on what you see, leaning into the surreal to uncover the hidden personalities within everyday objects and transform them into expressive characters.

By the end of the session, you'll have created a collection of hand-drawn postcards, each capturing a different mood or thought inspired by the objects around you.

About Stella Murphy

Stella Murphy is a London-based illustrator whose character-led drawings sit somewhere between the surreal and the nostalgic. Influenced by everything from 1800s caricature etchings to the liberated imagery of the 1960s and 70s, she creates 'internal' scenes that feel slightly off-kilter yet full of personality. Her bold colour choices heighten this sense of playful distortion. Favouring vibrant, deep 70s-inspired palettes — dark yellows, rich reds and unexpected clashes — she relishes making work that you "aren't sure if it's hideous or appealing." Murphy's illustrations appear across magazines, album covers and personal projects, and she is increasingly exploring how her work crosses over into music, fashion and comic art spaces.

Clients include: Ace & Tate, Adult Swim, Blinkink, Bloomberg Businessweek, Buffalo Zine, Defected Records, DICE, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, ItsNiceThat, The Face, Frieze Magazine, G.F Smith, Little White Lies, Metronomy, Mexican Summer, Polyester Zine, The New York Times, Nike, Selfridges, Tate.