Pottery painting
Choose from hundreds of pottery pieces and create something completely your own. Pieces from £18; we glaze and fire it for you.
How it worksPottery Painting & Creative Café in Chester
Good Things Happen Here
Relax, create and make memories together in Chester’s home of creative experiences – pottery painting, canvas painting, clay, keepsakes and parties, with great coffee and pizza, right on Eastgate Row.
Walk-ins are welcome, subject to availability.
Choose your creative experience
So many ways to create
From babies and toddlers to adults, families, couples, friends and corporate groups, there’s a creative experience waiting for everyone. No experience needed.
How a visit works: book a two-hour table, or walk in if we have space, and simply pay for the piece you make. Canvas, decoupage, mosaic and air-dry clay go home with you the same day. Pottery that we glaze and fire is ready in roughly 4 weeks, and we’ll keep it safe for 2 weeks once it’s ready.
Keepsakes
Little hands. Big stories. Glazed hand and footprints, clay impressions and 3D castings, made in our Chester studio.
Discover keepsakes
Parties
Children’s, adult and Mini Arty Parties – choose your activity, bring your people and leave with something you made.
Plan a party
Canvas painting
Pick up a brush, switch off and enjoy a relaxed canvas painting experience. Canvases from £13.
Canvas painting
Clay sculpting
Shape, build and decorate your own clay creation – take it home to air-dry, or have us glaze and kiln-fire it. Walk-in clay sculpting starts at £20.
Clay sculpting
Decoupage
Layer beautiful patterned papers onto letters and shapes and make something completely personal. Letters A–Z are £22 each.
Decoupage
Mosaic
Create something colourful with tiles and your imagination. A mosaic mug is £24 and a mosaic bowl is £25.
Mosaic
Corporate & team events
Swap the meeting room for the studio: private, hands-on workshops for groups of 10 or more. Prices depend on the activity you choose, so get in touch for a quote.
See packagesTake the studio home
Gift sets & creative kits
Handpicked kits from our gift shop – to paint, mosaic or make at home, or to give.
Coming up at Pictura
What’s on
- Over-18s · BYOB
Spooky BYOB Pottery Evening
Grab your ghouls and bring a bottle! Our BYOB Pottery Evenings are going Halloween for three frightfully fun Fridays this October.
- Adults only · 18+
Painting in the Dark: Halloween Starry night
Join us for a special adults-only Halloween painting experience, where neon colours, atmospheric lighting and a touch of spooky magic bring our Halloween Starry Night scene to life.
- Over-18s · BYOB
Spooky BYOB Pottery Evening
Grab your ghouls and bring a bottle! Our BYOB Pottery Evenings are going Halloween for three frightfully fun Fridays this October.
- Evening
Pictura Painting and Prosecco
Get ready for a spooktacular evening of painting, prosecco and creativity at Pictura Creative Studio!
The café
Relax, refuel & create
Every creative session is better with artisan coffee, pizza, Cheshire Farm ice cream, milkshakes, cakes and sweet treats.
Independent & family run
A creative space with heart
Pictura is proudly independent and family run, created to bring people together through creativity, great food and unforgettable experiences. Every visit is designed to feel warm, welcoming and genuinely personal.
About usVisit us
5 Eastgate Row North
Tucked away on Eastgate Row, in the heart of Chester city centre.
- Pictura Chester, 5 Eastgate Row North, Chester CH1 1LQ
- Opening hours: Mon closed · Tue–Fri 10am–6pm · Sat–Sun 10am–5pm. A table booking is two hours.
- The Rows have steps. Step-free access is via Godstall Lane, opposite the cathedral. Bringing a pram or need step-free access? Give us a call before you come.
- 01244 328976
- contact@picturachester.co.uk
