Pottery painting
Choose from hundreds of pottery pieces and create something completely your own. Pieces from £18; we glaze and fire it for you.
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Pottery 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 always 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.
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
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
Creative gift sets
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
BYOB Pottery Evening
Bring your own drinks and paint pottery with friends. Your ticket secures your seat; pottery is chosen and paid for on the night.
- Families
Canvas & Cocoa: Halloween
A cosy Halloween canvas painting session with hot chocolate.
- Over-18s · BYOB
Spooky BYOB Pottery Evening
Halloween-inspired bisque, atmospheric music and your own drinks. Your ticket secures your seat; you choose and pay for your pottery on the night. We glaze and fire it for collection later. Fancy dress welcome but not required.
- Adults only · 18+
Painting in the Dark: Halloween Starry Night
Paint a glowing Halloween night scene with fluorescent paints under UV lighting, guided step by step. Designed for complete beginners; canvas to take home.
Coffee. Creativity. Great company.
Relax, refuel & create
Every creative session is better with artisan coffee, Italian wood-fired pizzas, 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 us“Went to BYOB pottery painting experience. Great night and staff are ace. Highly recommend.”
“I took my wife for a date here… I painted a highland cow and my wife painted a mug, we both really enjoyed it, we also had a coffee and cake which was excellent too!”
Find 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
- 01244 328976
- contact@picturachester.co.uk
