Landscape Drawing Club: Youth Edition

Join us for a special edition of the Landscape Drawing Club, delivered in collaboration with WALK, TALK, DRAW. This creative workshop invites young people aged 11–16 to explore drawing from nature through a guided walk around Lloyds Park.

Led by garden designer Lucy Pearce and artist Barry Sykes, the session encourages slow looking, close observation, and curiosity about the natural world. Participants will learn how to identify key plant characteristics and consider what these details can tell us about the plants and environments around us. Through playful prompts and group discussion, the workshop supports both creative confidence and a deeper connection to place.

Drawing will be used as a tool for noticing and recording, with a focus on mark-making and experimenting with different materials. Each participant will create a mini zine over the course of the session, documenting their observations and responses in their own unique way.

Tickets: £5 per young person

All participants must be accompanied by an adult (this is not a drop-off workshop). Each parent or carer may supervise up to three young people.

About the artists

WALK TALK DRAW is a guided walk with a difference. Led by garden designer Lucy Pearce and local artist Barry Sykes it’s an opportunity to see a familiar space afresh – to learn about plants and their characteristics and have a go at drawing what we see.

Lucy Pearce is a qualified garden designer with a special interest in the beauty and joy of everyday encounters with plants – in private rear gardens, and in shared spaces, whether at the front of our homes or in public parks. Alongside creating considered, welcoming gardens for people in East London, Lucy founded WALK TALK DRAW to share her love of plants and what can be learned through observation and dialogue, with others.

Barry Sykes lives and works in Walthamstow, London, and is an artist with a varied practise, including drawing, sculpture and performance, used to explore play, pleasure, vulnerability and interaction. As Barry’s Anywhere Arts School he has recently hosted workshops and events in museums, cafes, parks, hospitals, schools, colleges and saunas.