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Pottery Painting & Creative Café in Chester
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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 4 weeks, and we’ll keep it safe for 2 weeks once it’s ready.
Looking for pottery painting in Chester? Choose a piece and paint your own pottery at a café table on Eastgate Row, and we’ll glaze and kiln-fire it for you. We also run kids’ parties in Chester, hen parties and baby hand and footprint keepsakes.
Rain on the way? See our rainy day and half-term ideas. Planning a night out? Our paint and sip evenings in Chester pair a canvas or a pottery piece with prosecco or your own drinks.
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 works
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
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
Team building & corporate events
Swap the meeting room for the studio: private, hands-on workshops for groups of 10 or more, from £40pp + VAT.
Team building & corporate eventsTake the studio home
Gift sets & creative kits
Handpicked kits from our gift shop – to paint, mosaic or make at home, or to give.
New from Pictura
Pictura Roll & Draw: Crazy Cubist Portraits
£30.00 for 2 artists · extra artists £10 each
Roll the dice, draw the face and get ready to giggle. Every roll decides the next wonky eye, sideways nose or wiggly mouth.
- Family time, screens down: phones away, everyone round the kitchen table, from 5 to 95.
- Date night with a difference: swap the takeaway and telly for paint and a portrait of each other.
- Team-building with a twist: play Pass the Portrait, where every face is passed on after each roll.
Our branded packaging is on its way. Until then, every kit comes packed in a sturdy bag so it gets home in perfect shape. Collect yours from the studio at 5 Eastgate Row North, Chester. UK delivery is coming soon.
See the kit
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 one frightfully fun Friday night this October.
- Evening
Painting & Prosecco: Halloween edition
Join us for a relaxed, social evening where we’ll guide you step by step through creating your own atmospheric Halloween canvas, featuring a glowing orange sky, moonlit water, bats, twisted trees and a spooky house in silhouette.
- Over-18s · BYOB
BYOB Pottery Evening
🎨 BYOB Pottery Evening at Pictura Chester 🍷 Because nothing says “I’m an adult” like sipping wine while painting a mug you’ll probably never use… and loving every second of it.
- Workshop
Resin Serving Board or Coasters
Design and pour your own food-safe resin serving board or a set of 4 coasters. It’s a fun evening out, and no experience is needed.
A bit of fun
Which Pictura activity are you?
Five playful questions. Find your match – pottery, canvas, clay, mosaic, decoupage, a party or a keepsake – then book it for real.
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 usPlanning a hen do?
Sip and Paint, life drawing or pottery painting in a private session for 10 to 30 guests. See our hen parties in Chester.
Christmas gifts, festive workshops and gift vouchers are all on our Christmas page.
5-star Google reviews
What our visitors say
“First time doing anything like this, it’s been amazing … staff are so lovely couldn’t be more helpful and wonderful … would happily do something like this again. 10/10”
“Such an awesome idea … Great friendly staff and in a very gorgeous part of Chester. You can paint pottery while having a drink and they then fire it for you. Perfect for a date, friends or a party. Highly recommended”
“One of my favourite places for crafty activities!! Each visit I’ve been greeted with the most lovely and helpful staff … There is a wide range of activities and pottery to paint, as well as lessons too.”
“Really nice for spending a few hours doing something creative, either by yourself or with a friend. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful.”
Visit 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
