by Little Art School | Jun 1, 2026 | Building Self-Esteem, Children, Dementia, Drawing and Painting, Little Art School, Wellbeing
Why nurturing, confidence-building art classes matter for mental and physical health in Scotland We started The Little Art School Charity because we’d seen, first-hand, what happens when someone who thinks they “can’t draw” picks up a pencil in a room where nobody is...
by Little Art School | Sep 16, 2021 | About Us, Adult, Art, Building Self-Esteem, Children, Drawing and Painting, Little Art School
Little Art School co-founders, Joanne and Melissa, explain how research and experience have come together with the Little Art School to demonstrate how you can increase your happiness by learning to draw and paint In the last eight years we have had had hundreds of...
by Little Art School | Apr 30, 2021 | About Us, Building Self-Esteem, Children, Dementia Arts Trust, Little Art Stars
Last weekend our two charities, the Little Art Stars and the Dementia Arts Trust, walked the Kiltwalk. The Kiltwalk is a wonderful event backed by the Hunter Foundation. Every penny raised is topped up by 50% by Sir Tom Hunter’s foundation, making this a really...
by Little Art School | Feb 6, 2021 | About Us, Art, Building Self-Esteem, Children, Drawing and Painting, Little Art Stars
Written by Joanne Robinson & Melissa Haddow The launch this week of our children’s charity, the Little Art Stars, has been a spark of joy for us; it has started 2021 with a sense of our moving forward to keep making a difference in our community. The mission of...
by Little Art School | Jan 19, 2021 | #DailyDraw, About Us, Art, Children, Drawing and Painting, Little Art School
By Joanne Robinson & Melissa Haddow, Little Art School Founders. During the 2020 Lockdown we designed, filmed, edited and released over 150 ‘How to Draw’ videos on our just launched YouTube Channel. It felt like a mammoth task but the response from families was...
by Little Art School | Dec 21, 2020 | About Us, Art, Children, Dementia Arts Trust, Little Art School, Little Art Stars, Uncategorized
By Joanne Robinson & Melissa Haddow Last week our team delivered hundreds of beautiful hand drawn Christmas cards to care home residents across Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire. Each card had been designed, drawn and painted with great care by children giving up...
