Workshops
A friendly, untutored clay group enjoying making hand built pottery and sculpture. Beginners welcome and helped to start with some clay, the group tool kit, library and masses of helpful advice.
The group meets every Mondays, 9:30am to 12:30pm.
£8 per session.
Watercolour classes with tutor Nicky Clarke
Tuesdays: Jun 16, 23, 30, Jul 7, 14, 21
Morning session: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Afternoon session: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: £20 per session
To book, contact Nicky directly on: 01460 281773 or email randnclarke@hotmail.co.uk
Painting is about ‘looking’ and drawing exercises our ‘looking’ skills and our awareness.
We will draw and paint on this course. Drawing exercises will designed to help us ‘see’ but painting is where we are aiming!
Beginners and experienced are all welcome to a relaxed class where everyone is encouraged and supported to work on individual choices and their own personal artistic development.
6 week course: Jun 17, 24, Jul 1, 8, 15, 22
Wednesdays 9:45am - noon
£132 for 6 sessions
To book, contact Juliet directly on: 01278 795364 or email: julietfarnese@gmail.com
Performances
Taking communication, collaboration and experimentation as the basis to grow as a group, Ceruleo create dramatic programmes using spoken text alongside music for two sopranos and continuo.
Promoted by Concerts in the West
Tickets £20
Kings of the Blues is a dynamic live show led by guitarist Will Edmunds, tracing the evolution of blues from its raw Delta roots to the modern day. Blending live performance with engaging storytelling, the show journeys through acoustic country blues, Chicago’s electric sound, the “Three Kings,” British blues and blues-rock, right through to contemporary artists. With 30 years of playing experience, Will brings authenticity and insight, joined by top UK musicians for a powerful and entertaining celebration of the music that shaped generations.
Tickets: £18
Listen in amazement as Dave, Paul, Kevin, George and John recreate the super summer sounds of Brian, Mike, Carl, Al and Dennis, who made up the inspirational and very different California group The Beach Boys. Hits like ‘Little Deuce Coup’, ‘I get Around’, ‘Surfin Safari’ and ‘Help Me Rhonda’ should get you yearning for the sun and surf.
Sponsored by Battens Charitable Trust.
Tickets: £22
Exhibitions
Ilminster Arts Centre highly anticipated Open Exhibition 2026 is back. This annual judged exhibition invited artists from across the region to submit their work for the chance to be showcased in one of Somerset’s leading artistic events.
The exhibition will run from 23rd June to 31st July 2026, welcoming visitors from Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM. Open Tuesday - Saturday 09:30-15:00. Free Entry.
Exhibition ends on Friday 31st July, 15:00
Sponsored by Branston
‘Hidden Depths’ is about capturing all the complex layers involved in our human interactions with each other and the natural world.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 09:30-15:00
Exhibition ends on Friday 28th August, 15:00
Free Entry
Three local artists, Ksenia Cieslak, Richard Pearson & Rosaria Valenti come together to present a fresh perspective on life through abstraction.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 09:30-15:00
Exhibition ends on Friday 28th August, 15:00
Free Entry