Hidden Palette

Hidden Palette: Art & Home Evening Classes in Shipley, Leeds

Hidden Palette has always been one of those quiet, steady parts of the studio that I’ve held quite close. But recently, I felt like it was ready to evolve into something a little more open — and a bit more real to how people actually want to create.

It started life as a painting and drawing class, which I still absolutely love. But over time, I noticed something shifting in the studio.

People weren’t just wanting to paint a canvas and go home.

They wanted to make things that lived in their world.

Things with meaning. Things with purpose. Things that actually became part of their home.

So Hidden Palette began to change.

From painting class to Art & Home

Now, Hidden Palette sits under what I call Art & Home — a creative evening class in Leeds that brings together painting, drawing, and hands-on making.

It’s still rooted in art, but it’s no longer limited to the canvas.

Instead, it’s become a space where you can create things like:

* a portrait of your kids

* a cushion you’ve made for a guest room

* a piece of furniture or an heirloom brought back to life

* a small handmade terrarium for your kitchen windowsill

* a weighted lavender or lemongrass eye mask for slow, quiet evenings after long days

And those are just examples — not limits.

It’s about making things that actually belong somewhere in your life.

A creative space for real life

What I love most about this class is that it reflects real life.

Not perfect studio work. Not pressure. Not “finished pieces for display”.

Just time to create things that feel personal, useful, and meaningful.

Some weeks that might be painting. Other weeks it might be sewing, upcycling, ceramics, or small home projects you’ve been thinking about for ages but never quite started.

It’s fluid, and that’s the point.

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🕯️ Flexible evening art classes in Shipley, Leeds

I also wanted Hidden Palette to feel realistic for busy lives.

So instead of a rigid weekly commitment, you now book 4 sessions to use over 8 weeks.

That means:

* you don’t fall behind if life gets busy

* you can skip a week when you need to

* and you can return when it works for you

It’s creative consistency — without pressure.

Who it’s for

The Hidden Palette evening class in Leeds is perfect for:

* beginners who want to explore creativity again

* people who used to make things and want to come back to it

* anyone looking for relaxed evening art classes

* those who want to create for their home, not just for a canvas

Why I created it

At its core, this class is about something quite simple:

Making space for creativity in real life again.

Not as something extra. Not as something perfect.

But as something you return to — slowly, when you can — and build into your week in a way that feels good.

That’s what Hidden Palette has become.

A place to make things that matter, in a way that fits around everything else.

Book your Hidden Palette evening class

If this feels like something you’d love to be part of, you can join the Hidden Palette Art & Home evening class here at Little House of Paint in Leeds.

Four sessions. Eight weeks. No pressure. Just space to create

Redefine Success - A Becoming: Art, Energy and Returning to What Was Always There

Hi, I’m Beckie, and this is a glimpse into my journey.

How I arrived here as an artist, a creative, and an intuitive channel, and how all of it has been quietly unfolding over time.

In 2021, I had a spiritual awakening that changed the direction of my life completely.

Before that, I had spent 16 years working as a homeware buyer and product development Manager. I was surrounded by design, colour, texture, and objects that shaped how people live in their spaces. I genuinely loved it—beautiful homeware was always my thing.

But my relationship with work began to shift. The pace became heavy, the pressure constant, and something in me started to ask for a different way of living. Not faster. Not louder. Just… more aligned.

I didn’t want to leave creativity behind—I wanted to return to it in a more embodied way. More hands-on. More present.

In 2021, I set up Little House of Paint, offering painting, decorating, and wall murals in people’s homes. That became a threshold moment for me. It slowed everything down. It brought me back into physical space,into working with my hands in a way that felt grounding and real.

And from there, I started to return to painting and opened my Creative studio at Little house of paint.

Creativity has never been something I had to find. It has always been something I was raised within. My mum has always been deeply creative—moving through different artistic forms over the years, and now working more intuitively with watercolour.

My dad spent many years working in oils, and had focused on detailed pencil sketches and portrait work of public figures and celebrities. Art, in many forms, was simply part of the atmosphere I grew up in.

Over time, I’ve worked across different styles myself, but something in me kept being pulled back toward abstraction.

Abstract painting feels like a release. A loosening. A space where control falls away and something more intuitive can move through. There are no fixed rules, no expected outcome—just colour, gesture, energy, and presence.

The less defined the form becomes, the more open it feels. Not just visually, but internally. As though it creates space for something else to enter—something felt rather than explained.

My intention with my abstract work is for it to live in spaces where it shifts something in the room. Where it isn’t just seen, but experienced. Like a key that gently unlocks new ways of being—subtle shifts in perception, emotion, and energy. A sense of uplift, expansion, and balance through colour and form.

Alongside my return to painting, my inner world also began to deepen.

After my spiritual awakening, I trained in Angelic Reiki and began to develop a more intuitive practice alongside my creative work. Meditation, channelling, and what I experience as light language became part of my daily life—not separate from art, but woven into it.

Over time, I began to experience a deeper sense of connection to what I would describe as higher consciousness. It is something I experience as guidance, movement, and flow—something that comes through both in life and in the studio.

I can now come out of the spiritual closet and say that I am a light language channel, working with the Angelic Collective.

Alongside my studio practice, I also hold Wellbeing Wednesday sessions where people can come and use art as a way of healing, releasing, softening, and regulating. It is less about outcome, and more about experience. A return to presence through colour, texture, and making.

Everything I do is rooted in atmosphere. Music, scent, light, and energy all shape the space before anything is even made. The studio becomes a field in which creativity can move freely.

For me, art and spirituality are not separate paths. They are woven together. One informs the other. Both are expressions of the same thing—attention, energy, and presence.

Looking back, I don’t see a moment where creativity began. I see a continuous thread—something I have always been inside of, and am still moving through.

This is the work. This is the practice. This is the becoming