{"id":939360,"date":"2026-05-05T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939360\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:10:24","slug":"kirkstall-valley-farm-aims-to-boost-wellbeing-with-painting-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/939360\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkstall Valley Farm aims to boost wellbeing with painting sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The organisation behind Kirkstall Valley Farm is aiming to cement its position as a centre for community wellbeing with a six-week painting course.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkstall Valley Development Trust is teaming up with <a href=\"http:\/\/lynnarmstrongpaintings.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lynn Armstrong<\/a>, who has been a painter for over 30 years, to put on beginners\u2019 watercolour and acrylic sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn has exhibited her work in various places across Scotland and Yorkshire and has taught both acrylic and watercolour for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The painting sessions will cover how to lay washes of paint in watercolour and landscapes and street scenes in both watercolour and acrylic.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image1-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202178\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirkstall Valley Development Trust CEO Adele Rae said: \u201cWe\u2019re hoping to develop the farm as a wellbeing hub for the whole community, extending our offer beyond the community growing opportunities we\u2019re so well known for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always try to make our events affordable and are keen to support people in different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>E-mail Adele.rae@kvdt.or.uk to book or <a href=\"https:\/\/bookwhen.com\/kvdt#focus=ev-s7tx-20260506100000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisation behind Kirkstall Valley Farm is aiming to cement its position as a centre for community wellbeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,200366,237820,228451,1860,16,15],"class_list":["post-939360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-kirkstall","tag-kirkstall-valley-development-trust-kvdt","tag-kirkstall-valley-farm","tag-leeds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116522138452672207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}