Drawing Ground
Welcome to Drawing Ground – where big ideas begin with simple lines!
"Drawing Ground starts with drawing—but each half term, it grows into a wider world of art, exploring new materials and creative approaches beyond just lines on paper."
Come and explore the fun world of drawing which is one of the most fundamental and powerful forms of art. Drawing Ground is a playful and inspiring series of artist-led sessions that explore drawing as a tool for creative thinking, communication, and self-expression. Each session is full of creative activities designed to spark creativity, build drawing skills, and stretch your thinking — rooted in the experimental, curious spirit of contemporary art.
Drawing helps you focus, build confidence, and see the world in fresh and surprising ways. It’s also a great way to relax, explore your feelings, and make something that’s completely your own. Along the way, you will naturally strengthen focus, coordination, observation, and self-expression.
Each half-term we dive into a new theme balancing skill-building with joyful exploration — sometimes we tell stories, sometimes we draw what we hear or feel, and sometimes we go wild and let the lines lead the way! You’ll learn fun drawing skills and get to try out ideas that connect to painting, sculpture, and more. Drawing Ground is for anyone curious about the possibilities of drawing.
Join us and see where your lines can take you. This will be a playground for imagination to explore, invent, and grow!
In Drawing Ground, children will:
Explore a journey through drawing, from careful observation to bold imagination
Learn to look closely and draw what they see in the world around them
Experiment with playful techniques to express what they feel and imagine
Build drawing skills while developing confidence in creative thinking
Use different tools and materials to try new styles and effects
Discover their own artistic voice in a supportive and fun environment
About the venue >>>
The Hall at St John’s Upper Norwood is a beautiful and spacious venue — perfect for letting creativity stretch and grow. With plenty of room to move, children can explore art on a larger scale, use their whole bodies in the creative process, and enjoy the freedom to experiment beyond the table. Whether they’re drawing big, building, or working on delicate pieces, the open space encourages imagination to flow in every direction.
Heena Kim with her workshop Abracadabra Room
About the artist / creative lead >>>
Heena Kim is a visual artist and founder of Beyond Space, an initiative that brings people together through participatory art and creative dialogue. Originally from South Korea, Heena earned her BFA and MFA in Fine Art in Seoul before moving to the UK to complete an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows both in the UK and internationally, and she has taken part in a range of artist residencies and public talks, including a residency at Vitrine Gallery, London.
With over 15 years of experience, Heena is deeply committed to collaborative and interactive approaches to art-making. She has developed and delivered a wide range of workshops, art and culture programmes, and educational projects—often working closely with other artists, communities, and cultural spaces. Her practice explores how shared creativity can open up new ways of seeing, thinking, and connecting.
PROGRAMMES
This Body, That Line: Autumn Term 1, 2025
In our first half term, we will dive into the magic of our senses and discover how we can use our whole bodies to explore art in fun and surprising ways.
We’ll explore how we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and move and turn all of that into imaginative, expressive artworks. One week, we might listen to music and draw the sounds we hear. Another time, we’ll use our hands to explore texture, draw with unusual tools, or even make marks with movement! We’ll look closely at tiny details with our eyes, stretch out with full-body gestures, play with scent-inspired colours, and imagine how flavours or feelings can become shapes and patterns.
Every session is an invitation to tune in to our senses and discover just how much creativity lives inside our bodies. This is a joyful, hands-on adventure where curiosity leads, art follows, and children are encouraged to express themselves freely — big, bold, and beautifully unique.
When: Tuesdays, 2 September - 21 October 2025
Tiny Tracers (Y1-Y2) 3.40pm - 4.50pm
Creative Shapers (Y3-Y6) 5.10pm - 6.20pm
Where: St John’s Upper Norwood, Sylvan Road, London, SE19 2RX
£120 (8 sessions, £15 per session), 10% Sibling discount is available
We run a taster session 4.30pm - 5.30pm every second and forth Tuesday in July - August. Please use the button below and email us info@beyond-space.com for your preferred date. £12
Shiny Shapes: Autumn Term 2, 2025
This half-term, your child will step into the magical world of decorative drawing, where art meets imagination, and even the simplest shapes can turn into shimmering masterpieces!
Inspired by artists like Gustav Klimt, children will explore how lines, textures, and patterns can bring drawings to life. Think swirling hair, golden details, sparkling clothes and dreamy backgrounds. Each session introduces new drawing techniques — from layering to pattern-making — encouraging kids to develop their own artistic voice while boosting focus, creativity, and confidence.
As we move into the festive season, children will also create cosy winter-themed artworks; holiday scenes, sparkling ornaments or anything they love about the season. We’ll make drawings that feel festive and full of warmth and perfect to display at home to share with loved ones.
When: Tuesdays, 4 November 2025 - 16 December 2025
Tiny Tracers (Y1-Y2) 3.40pm - 4.50pm
Creative Shapers (Y3-Y6) 5.10pm - 6.20pm
Where: St John The Evangelist, St John’s Upper Norwood, Sylvan Road, London, SE19 2RX
£105 (7 sessions, £15 per session), 10% Sibling discount is available
We run a taster session 4.30pm - 5.30pm every second and forth Tuesday in July - August. Please use the button below and email us info@beyond-space.com for your preferred date. £12
“I loved the workshop today! The most exciting bit today was colouring the negative space and drawing/ tracing the shadow onto our paper.”
The Wall We Wove
The Wall We Wove is a collaboration between Beyond Space and The Transformation Gallery to boost the creative community in South London and connect artists & community. Artists and neighbours are welcome to The Transformation Gallery in Brixton to co-create a drawing installation on the given walls.
This project invites artists and the local community to come together and co-create a large-scale drawing installation on the designated walls. It is an open, inclusive, and collaborative art experience that encourages participation from people of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels.
The core idea is simple: art links us. By turning the creative process into a shared activity, we hope to inspire a stronger sense of connection and belonging within the community. Each line drawn, each idea shared, becomes part of a larger collective story—one that reflects the diverse voices and imaginations of those who live and create together.
Artists often bring new perspectives, spark imagination, and create space for dialogue. This project places artists in direct collaboration with the community, allowing for the exchange of inspiration in both directions.
We believe that involving the community in the artistic process makes art more meaningful and accessible. The walls become more than just a surface—they become a shared canvas that reflects the identity, dreams, and spirit of the people who helped bring it to life.
This co-created drawing installation is a living, growing expression of community energy, and a reminder that creativity thrives when shared. Together, we can transform the gallery space into a place of connection, imagination, and beauty.
Let’s create something inspiring—together!
Sessions are drop-in (booking is not required).
Families are welcome, but please ensure that your child is accompanied by an adult.
No experience or materials are needed. Just come and enjoy drawing!
Times / Dates
23-24 July 2025, 2pm- 6pm
Where The Transformation Gallery, Arch 18, Valentia Place, London, SW9 8PJ
£3 per person
About The Transformation Gallery >>>
The Transformation Gallery, established in 2024 and named after The Transformation Book by Fernando Pessoa, is a contemporary art gallery with a focus on experimental research based art, located in Brixton.
Call for Artists – Bits & Pieces
Image: Woodland Tribe at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2022
We’re delighted to announce that Bits & Pieces will be part of the Crystal Palace Artists Open House 2025, highlighting the vital role of creativity in building and enriching the community!
Bits & Pieces is a collaborative art project bringing together a group of artists to create a participatory event for children and families, centred around the themes of used materials, creative reuse, and sustainability. Together, we’ll explore how to turn the discarded into something magical, meaningful, and new. Each artist will share their own practice, offering participants a chance to experience different techniques — from drawing to painting, making to playful repair. The families will contribute to a shared art piece, combining everyone's creative input into one joyful collective work.
This is a great opportunity to:
Co-create with other like-minded artists
Connect with the local community
Share your work in a supportive, playful environment
While this opportunity is not fee-paid, selected artists will have the chance to showcase their work during the event, with space available for displaying and selling artwork.
We're looking for open, collaborative artists who are excited to work with others and support children and families in hands-on making. If this sounds like you, please complete the application form and email info@beyond-space.com with 1–3 images of your work. We will contact artists by 15 August 2025.
Themes: reuse, transformation, playful repair, second lives
Expected participants: children and families
Date/ Time: Saturday 27 September 2025, 2–6 PM
Project location: The Hall at St John the Evangelist, Sylvan Road, London SE19 2RX
Application deadline: 10 August 2025 (midnight)
→ Apply here
We can’t wait to hear from you. Thank you!
Gather & Unfold
Gather & Unfold is a series of zine-making workshops for parents who may have experienced stress, overwhelm, or isolation and are seeking a moment for creativity, reflection and reconnection.
Led by artists Heena Kim and Tamsin Relly, participants are invited to ‘gather and unfold’, to come together within a peer-supported space to explore the myriad experiences of parenthood through creative play; the highs and lows, challenges and joys, poetry and pressures.
Participants will each produce a zine - a small self-published booklet including artwork and text - exploring their individual emotional journey, and using drawing, painting, collage or printmaking processes.
The Story Behind >>>
Juggling parenting and work is inevitable when we become a parent. What we have lost and what we have gained… There must be something gained, but unfortunately it is not easy to turn your head to the bright side when you feel like you are in a dark tunnel without an end light and instead focusing on what you are delaying and losing: career, ‘me’ time and social life… We would like to provide creative time for those seeking support and a social link.
No experience or materials are needed.
You may attend any number of the three workshops. We encourage joining multiple workshops to deepen the experience, but both single and multiple bookings are available, depending on your preference.
Workshops run during school hours to enable parents whose children are in daycare or school to attend.
The door will be open from 9.15am for refreshments & meeting the artists & other parents.
Please contact us info@beyond-space.com to cancel your booking if you are not able to attend, so that we can reopen the place for another parent.
Please note that the workshops are funded by Croydon Council and for Croydon residents only.
Times/ Dates
Gather & Unfold 1: Thursday, 19 June 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
Gather & Unfold 2: Thursday, 26 June 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
Gather & Unfold 3: Thursday, 3 July 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
Where The Teal Room, Upper Norwood Library, 39 Westow Hill, Norwood, London SE19 1TQ
FREE, Croydon Residents Only
About the artists/ facilitators: Heena Kim and Tamsin Relly
A Previous Collaboration Project: Speaking Shadows
Heena Kim transfers daily events she observes into unique visual words which become narrative yet abstract images in her painting practice. Those daily events or feelings become the beginning of her painting journey and she uses her practice as a tool to record these ongoing experiences and suggest new approaches to them. She often changes the scale of the initial images to hover between representation and abstraction, or pick up on specific parts to emphasise or repeat as a visual character.
Kim is a South Korean born artist living and working in London. Her works have been exhibited in the UK and internationally through solo and group exhibitions since completed her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (UAL) in 2008, including A mark is a river at The Handbag Factory, In Conversation; freedom of distance, space and time at AMP Gallery in London, All S-He Ever Wanted To Be at Galleria M in Kolkata, India and Waving Stories at Amidi Gallery in Seoul. Kim also participated in artist residencies, talks, workshops and writing at Vitrine Gallery, V22 Collection in London, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange in Seoul, foundation B.a.d in Rotterdam. With her interest in collaboration and participatory projects, She has been working with other artists to create interactive projects; Site Specific Squat and In Conversation and ArtDegree Studio.
Tamsin Relly’s multi-disciplinary practice explores the reciprocal relationship we have with our planet’s ecology and the ways in which we find connection with the living world. Recent projects consider the migration of plants and the preservation of botanical environments through conservation, urban parks and memory – be it personal, collective or held within the land. Research has led her to diverse locations including Svalbard in the Arctic Circle; boreal forests in Hämeenkyrö, Finland and the Eden Project in Cornwall.
South African-born and London-based, Relly received an MA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2011. Her work has been exhibited and collected widely in the UK and internationally. It has been included in group shows at Sid Motion Gallery, Informality Gallery, Oliver Projects, OHSH and TJ Boulting in London and is held in the permanent collections of the National Maritime Museum, Imperial Health Charity and Simmons Contemporary in London. Solo exhibitions include: Forest Memory, Brocket Gallery, London (2017), Imagining the Amazon, House of St Barnabas, London (2016) and Jungle Snow, The Place Downstairs, London (2014). Relly has received two commissions from Hospital Rooms to make site specific work for mental health units in the UK. Residencies include: RE·THINK: Environment, National Maritime Museum, London; Hogchester Arts, Dorset and Pocantico, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York.
The Bustling Society >>>
The Bustling Society is a series of community projects to boost creative energy and connection though art and culture in our community.
Outdoor Drawing
Helping to enrich art education in the school and to raise school funding, we are excited to provide an outdoor drawing workshop in the Edible Garden at Rockmount Primary School in May as part of Delightful Spring.
Children will have a creative outdoor time to awaken their senses with the fresh air, the sun, the surrounding nature and observational drawing. Learning mark-making and drawing techniques, they will spot forms, colours and textures of Spring plants and catch them to express in their art.
This fun-filled experience blends outdoor exploration, hands-on drawing, and creative play. Perfect for adventurers with a love for nature and drawing!
All proceeds will be donated to Rockmount Primary School.
Outdoor Drawing
Thursday 22 May 2025
The Edible Garden
Rockmount Primary School
More details will be sent out by the school.
Floral Collage
Spring is Sprung! Join us to get creative and make a colourful floral collage inspired by this beautiful time of year. In this drop in workshop, led by illustrator Alice Alderman and painter Heena Kim, we will explore materials, make our own collage papers and create a finished masterpiece to take away and display at home.
All materials will be provided. Just come along and join in! Book in advance or just pay on the day. All ages welcome. This is the perfect event for adults to take part in together with their children or simply to take some time out for yourself.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Drop in anytime
Adult £14, Child £6, FREE 0-3 years for paying on the day
Adult £12, Child £3, FREE 0-3 years for booking in advance
Friday, 16 May 2025, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Where: West Norwood Library Community Room, 1-5 Norwood High St, Norwood, London SE27 9JU
Delightful Spring
Delightful Spring is all about enhancing the new season with creativity. Flowers are blooming and tree buds are appearing on bare branches. Soon our surroundings will be full of colour. It looks like spring has definitely sprung! Time to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
Join us this May for festivities; take part in creative workshops and art activities to awaken your senses. Delightful Spring is to shape the experience of multi-sensory with all of the senses of vision, touch and shapes, to experiment with various elements such as colour and texture.
Red Goes Green: Be brave to go for opposite colours, extreme shapes or wrong textures! Small to big, red to green and smooth to tough… Explore visual elements of in-season vegetables with opposite reactions to construct an odd dreamlike still life and stimulate your senses with unusual paths of expression.
1: Monday, 12 May 2025, 4.30pm - 5.40pm (KS1: Y1-Y2), £15
2: Monday, 19 May 2025, 4.30pm - 5.40pm (KS2: Y3-Y6), £15
Where: Artist’s Studio in SE19; The Blue Studio (Full address will be provided when booked)
May Half-Term:
3: Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10am - 11.10am (KS1: Y1-Y2), £15
4: Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 11.30am - 12.40pm (KS2: Y3-Y6), £15
Where: The Teal Room, Upper Norwood Library, 39 Westow Hill, Norwood, London SE19 1TQ
Floral Collage: Spring is Sprung! Join us to get creative and make a colourful floral collage inspired by this beautiful time of year. In this drop in workshop, led by illustrator Alice Alderman and painter Heena Kim, we will explore materials, make our own collage papers and create a finished masterpiece to take away and display at home.
All materials will be provided. Just come along and join in! Book in advance or just pay on the day. All ages welcome. This is the perfect event for adults to take part in together with their children or simply to take some time out for yourself.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Drop in anytime
Adult £14, Child £6, FREE 0-3 years for paying on the day
Adult £12, Child £3, FREE 0-3 years for booking in advance
Friday, 16 May 2025, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Where: West Norwood Library Community Room, 1-5 Norwood High St, Norwood, London SE27 9JU
Outdoor Drawing at Rockmount Primary School: Helping to enrich art education in the school and to raise school funding, we are excited to provide an outdoor drawing workshop in the Edible Garden at school in May as part of Delightful Spring.
Children will have a creative outdoor time to awaken their senses with the fresh air, the sun, the surrounding nature and observational drawing. Learning mark-making and drawing techniques, they will spot forms, colours and textures of Spring plants and catch them to express in their art.
This fun-filled experience blends outdoor exploration, hands-on drawing, and creative play. Perfect for adventurers with a love for nature and drawing! All proceeds will be donated to Rockmount Primary School.
22 May 2025 at the Edible Garden. More details will be sent out by the school.