Kirsteen’s Art Workshops

15/01/2025

I now have a locals discount set up on my site. I am just about to list this tour and workshop on many online travel agents and expect it to book up fast. Please take this week to book if you are local to Edinburgh or even Scotland - Honestly I am not too fussy. :)

Kirsteen's Art Workshops, Edinburgh art workshops, Visitors and locals. Tour a gallery to be inspired then create beautiful art to treasure in a fun workshop. Experience history, make art at Scotland's galleries and museums! All levels welcome. All art materials provided.

05/12/2024

New Art Tour opens in Edinburgh inclusive, green and giving back to the community.

Now visitors and locals alike can now tour Edinburgh galleries with a real artist, and make art at the galleries.

Local artist Kirsteen Lyons-Benson (Bachelor of Arts with Honours) will tour visitors through inspiring Scottish art and then teach them how to create your own art to treasure as a memory of the experience. The tour will be small groups and lots of help will be available so any level of ability including complete beginners can enjoy the experience.

Kirsteen grew up in Scotland’s art scene, her parents met at Glasgow School of Art and were friends and contemporaries with such famous names as Alastair Grey - who read Lanark to her father while he was writing it (and burned any pages her father did not enjoy). Kirsteen later interviewed Alastair Grey about his paintings and drawings long before the solo show at the National Galleries of Scotland brought these works to their rightful acclaim. This rich history was followed by attaining her design degree at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University. Kirsteen is now keen to share her passion for Scottish art and help a diverse range of learning styles and visitors experience Scotlands rich culture.

Kirsteen is a working artist herself and has regular exhibitions throughout the UK, including the iconic Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture.

The tour will be a green as possible with visitors making short walks to the various locations through stunning Edinburgh landmarks and the artist even gets the bus to the city! Kirsteen is also passionate about Human Rights and wants the tour to fund a series of Human Rights education events in Edinburgh this coming summer.

What the public say about the tour and workshop:

“I booked my family on this workshop and we had such a lovely time! My 11 year old and my husband are talented but I’m not and I haven’t sketched since high school some 30 years ago. Kirsteen managed to nurture confidence and inspire all of us. We were delighted with our sketches and my daughter immediately started practising what Kirsteen had taught her when we got home!” JG (Google business review)

“Kirsteen is an amazing art guide and tutor and completely returned my motivation for doing art.”NC (Google business review)

More information about the tour and the artist can be found at:

Kirsteen's Art Workshops, Edinburgh art workshops, Visitors and locals. Tour a gallery to be inspired then create beautiful art to treasure in a fun workshop. Experience history, make art at Scotland's galleries and museums! All levels welcome. All art materials provided.

15/11/2024

Kirsteen Lyons-Benson BA (Hons)

Artist and Designer
Exhibition list.

Exhibitions:

1999 and 2000 Exhibitions of oil paintings with two other artists, East Grinstead Art Centre.
2002 Exhibition at the Lighthouse Design Centre, Glasgow. Scotland’s premier design gallery. www.thelighthouse.co.uk
2002 Degree show exhibition, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
2002 New Designers, Islington Exhibition Centre, London. www.businessdesigncentre.co.uk
2002 Now Gallery of contemporary art, Birmingham.
2005 Solo show, Wealden House, East Grinstead, Sussex.
2006 Bagsythat, Christmas "open studio show", Sussex.
2007 Bagsythat, Exhibition in the Birmingham City Theatre, (solo show).
2007 Bagsythat, Forest Row, Sussex, (group show).
2008 Bagsythat, Christmas art Exhibition, Tilgate Park, Crawley.
2008 Commissioned to create the eye for the Tilgate Monster, a public sculpture still in Tilgate Park.
2007 - 2009 Bagsythat, Work in my own gallery in Tilgate Park, Crawley.
2009 Work in the St Hill international Arts Festival, Sussex.
2009 Bagsythat, Crawley Community Venue, show with two other artists.
2021 Represented by The Birmingham Contemporary Art Gallery for both paintings and silver jewellery. They also represent British sculptor Willard Wigan.
2021 to present Art Dreams Gallery and other online galleries.
Competitions:

2001 First prize-winner of an industrial competition for Morton Yong & Borland. This was a prize for the best of Madras lace design.
2001 Joint first prize-winner of an industrial competition for Muraspec, (a textile wall coverings design and manufacturer). The judges of this competition said I had won for the relevance and applicability of my response, as well as the high standard of work, commenting “There are people out there making good livings with far inferior products”.

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Kirsteen Lyons-Benson
+44 (0) 7799201417
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I have been making art, teaching and tutoring art all my life. I have a degree in design from Heriot Watt University but even before that I have taught and made; art, drama, design, photography, sculpture, drawing, ceramics and more. I think art is very important to happiness, all of us need art in....

06/11/2024

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Kirsteen's Art Workshops, Edinburgh art workshops, Visitors and locals. Tour a gallery to be inspired then create beautiful art to treasure in a fun workshop. Experience history, make art at Scotland's galleries and museums! All levels welcome. All art materials provided.

31/10/2024

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Kirsteen's Art Workshops, Edinburgh art workshops, Visitors and locals. Tour a gallery to be inspired then create beautiful art to treasure in a fun workshop. Experience history, make art at Scotland's galleries and museums! All levels welcome. All art materials provided.

15/10/2024

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