{"id":816202,"date":"2026-10-28T05:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T05:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:28:20","slug":"former-aerospace-student-launches-potters-bar-art-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816202\/","title":{"rendered":"Former aerospace student launches Potters Bar art workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Abdul Mustapha, who grew up in Nigeria, moved to the UK to study Aerospace Engineering, but soon found his passion lay in fine art.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Abdul is now launching his &#8216;From Sketch to Canvas&#8217; workshops at Wyllyotts Theatre on November 3.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Abdul Mustapha (Image: Abdul Mustapha)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The sessions aim to bring Hertfordshire adults together to discover their own creativity, guiding beginners from charcoal sketches to completed acrylic landscape paintings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Having started drawing at six, Abdul had to temporarily abandon his passion as it was not considered a traditional career path.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, after years of refining his skills and falling in love with the British landscape, he has found his calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdul Mustapha, who grew up in Nigeria, moved to the UK to study Aerospace Engineering, but soon found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}