The Halloween Drawing Table: Halloween Workshop in Brighton and Hove

Name: The Halloween Drawing Table - A Collaborative Drawing Evening
Start: 2026-10-26T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-26T21:00:00+00:00
Location: BRUSCO.

Know before you go

When: Monday, October 26, 2026, 7 PM to 9 PM (5 days before Halloween)
Where: BRUSCO., 16 Montpelier Place, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
Tickets: £25–£27
Length: About 2 hours
Type: Halloween Workshop

Details

Ten people. One special Halloween themed table. One enormous piece of paper. No pressure to be good at drawing.
About this Event

The Drawing Table is a different kind of creative evening.

And this October, things are getting a little darker… 🕯️💀🥀

At the centre of the table will be a Halloween-inspired vanitas / memento mori still life - drawing on the centuries-old artistic tradition of using symbolic objects to reflect on the brevity of life, decay and the passage of time.

Think flowers beginning to fade, fruit, candles, skulls and other strange and beautiful objects - all becoming part of one shared drawing as the table gradually fills with marks, colour and connections.

You don't need to be an artist. You don't even need to think you're good at drawing. In fact, The Drawing Table was created especially for people who love art and creativity but don't always have the confidence, time or space to make it part of their lives.

I'll gently guide you through a series of playful drawing exercises designed to get you out of your head and into the act of making. There are no mistakes, no pressure to produce something "good", and no individual artworks to compare.

Instead, your lines meet other people's lines. Drawings overlap. Someone adds to something you've started. Colours spread across the paper. Slowly, ten individual contributions become one shared artwork.

You don't have to know what you're doing. That's rather the point.

Around the table at Brusco

The setting is an important part of The Drawing Table.

We'll be gathering at Brusco, an intimate, characterful space in Brighton that feels a little more like being invited somewhere special than arriving for an art class. With music playing quietly in the background, drinks poured and everything ready for you to simply arrive and begin.

Warm, relaxed and just a little bit decadent, the atmosphere is deliberately designed to help you slow down, feel at ease and give yourself permission to create.

The evening

We'll begin by settling around the table with a drink. You'll choose an intention card for the evening and receive a small crystal to keep.

We'll start with a few playful drawing exercises to loosen up and take away some of that but I can't draw feeling.

Then we'll begin drawing together.

Flowers and objects arranged around the table will give us something to respond to, but there's no prescribed outcome. Prompt cards will appear throughout the evening to encourage you to experiment, move around the paper, respond to other people's marks and try things you might not normally do.

Later we'll introduce colour and allow the drawing to evolve.

There'll be time to chat, enjoy a cocktail or two, listen to the music and become completely absorbed in making something together.

And then we'll step back and see what eight people have created.

After the evening

The finished drawing doesn't simply disappear.

I'll divide the collaborative artwork into ten original pieces. Your piece will be carefully packaged and posted to you after the event.

You won't necessarily receive the section you personally drew.

That's intentional.

What arrives through your letterbox is a piece of something we made together.

Your ticket includes

A two-hour guided Drawing Table experience
A maximum of ten people
All drawing and art materials
Your intention card
A crystal to take home
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails (approx. 2 per person)
An original section of the finished collaborative artwork, packaged and posted to you after the event

Who is The Drawing Table for?

The Drawing Table is for the curious.

It's for people who love art but don't make enough of it.

People who haven't drawn since school.

People who keep buying sketchbooks and never quite use them.

People who already make art but would like to experience creating differently.

People who'd like to meet others without the pressure of simply walking into a room and making conversation.

And especially anyone who has ever said:

"I'm not very good at drawing."

You are very welcome at this table.

No previous drawing or art experience is needed.

Just come as you are.