Please be aware that there is an emergency road closure to Arley via Junction 19 of the M6. We would recommend that you use Junction 20 of the M6 and follow the brown tourist signs to Arley from there.
Spring Beginners Botanical Watercolours Workshop
Sue McHugh, is a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists and is the current Artist in Residence at Knowsley Hall. Sue is hosting a series of 2 hour, relaxed botanical watercolour art classes, aimed at beginners in the Coach House at Arley each month throughout the year.
Each workshop last 2 hours.
£50pp and includes a hot drink & cake as well as access to the gardens (normally £13) and parking (normally £4).
10 places per session so booking is essential.
The workshop requires no experience and the easy-to-follow process will walk you through the key steps to producing realistic botanical watercolours with real impact!
All professional art materials will be provided, just turn up!
What you will learn:
- Key elements of botanical illustration
- The art materials Sue uses
- Selecting your botanical specimen to paint
- Composition and common elements of botanical layouts
- Sue's easy-to-follow step-by-step watercolour technique
The focus will be learning about the watercolour process used to produce a spring painting to take away.
Sue's aim is to share her love for botanical watercolours and to demystify the key stages to creating successful paintings.
Tree Climbing
Saturday 14th March 2026
For ages 6 years and upwards, adults and children can experience a unique activity within the canopy of some fantastic trees. Tree climbing allows children to develop physical and mental skills, gain in confidence and develop their team building skills, all at the same time as having fun.
If you’re looking for a unique gift, then why not purchase a gift voucher which is redeemable at one of the tree climbing events.
Hall Open
Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th & Monday 16th March 2026
Entry to the Hall will be from 10am – 5pm (last entry 4.30pm). Adult £8.00, Child (4-16) £4.00, Family (2 adults & up to 3 children) £22.00. No need to book, but pre-booked tickets at a discounted rate are available using the Buy Tickets link above.
PLEASE NOTE: Hall entry is only available as an upgrade after paid garden entry.
PLEASE ALSO NOTE that included in your visit on Monday 16th March will be a piano recital by pianist Janusz Piotrowicz de Jagiellon. Further information is below.
Piano Recital
Monday 16th March 2026
Included in your upgraded entry to the hall (see details above) there will be a performance by the pianist Janusz Piotrowicz de Jagiellon.
As a schoolboy, Janusz Piotrowicz made his piano concerto début in Windsor Castle with Rachmaninov 3, and his London recital début with Chopin's 2nd and 3rd Sonatas and the Brahms Paganini Variations after winning the Nawrocki Prize for the most poetic interpreter in the 1975 Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition.
He launched his international career, giving up to 300 performances a year, and staging three-part epic recital programmes, which included Chopin’s Four Ballades, Four Scherzi, Twenty-four Preludes and Twenty-seven Etudes, as well as several cycles of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas and Concertos. In 1994 he performed to 5,000 people at the Chopin Memorial in Poland's capital, on the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
Piotrowicz is founder and conductor of the Orchestra of the World (L'Orchestre du Monde). His Royal Albert Hall series has included performances of Bach's Mass in B minor (with Chorale du Monde), Dvorak's New World Symphony, Tchaikovsky 5 and Beethoven 5. Other recent highlights include Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Rachmaninov 2 with the Hallé, Mahler 1, Tchaikovsky 4 and Shostakovich 5 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms 1 and 4, Shostakovich 10 and Sibelius 1 with the Orchestra of Opera North, and the complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London.
Janusz Piotrowicz is also founder and artistic director of the Ripon International Festival of Music and the Arts. In 1986, he established The World Trust, which promotes and supports humanitarian and educational causes across the globe.
Janusz will be playing in the Drawing Room at 11am and 2pm (45 minutes each time).
Spring Plant Fair
Sunday 22nd March 2026
Admission is £5.00 per person and includes full access to the gardens and the plant fair (gardens normally £13.00 per person).
Child (4-16) FREE (normally £6.50).
Parking FREE (normally £4.00 per car).
No need to pre-book.
Open 10am - 4pm, dogs welcome on a lead.
Click here to arrange a group visit with Plant Hunters Fairs to this event.