Basel’s Home for Creativity
Painting Studio Basel – For the Bold, the Calm & the Curious
Whether you’re splashing colour like a maniac or meditating with every brushstroke, our painting studio in Basel gives you the space — and the vibe — to do your thing. Abstract, realistic, chaotic, calming… whatever’s on your palette, it belongs here.
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Paint & Sip, or Just Paint — We Don’t Judge
At our painting studio in Basel, you get to choose your creative adventure. Want structure? Join a painting course and build your skills step by step. Looking for fun? Grab a brush (and a drink) at one of our paint & sip workshops.
Prefer full freedom? Our open studio sessions let you paint exactly how you feel — with all the colours, canvases, and calm you need to just do your thing.
Painting studio Basel - directly at the railway station
Our painting studio in Basel is just a few minutes’ walk from the main railway station — easy to find, and hard to leave without a little paint on you.
Come by and see the space for yourself — we’d love to meet you (and your paint-streaked shoes).
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Wallstrasse 14
4051 Basel
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White Walls, Blue Thoughts
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Action Painting Studio Basel
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Maybe someone lives here.
Maybe they used to.
Maybe it was you.
It’s the kind of place that doesn’t ask questions. You stop in front of it without meaning to, caught between arriving and remembering. The day is warm, but the thoughts are cooler — the kind that show up when you stand still long enough.
Nothing is certain except the feeling that something happened here. A routine, a return, a moment you didn’t think you’d miss. The house keeps it to itself. You keep the rest.
This painting isn’t about a house — it’s about what stays with us, long after we’ve moved on.
Action Painting
Guided Expressive Abstract Art Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Action Painting Studio Basel
- 2.5 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Splash. Drip. Splatter. Total Freedom.
Looking for a creative experience that’s energetic, expressive and completely different from traditional painting?
Our Action Painting Workshop combines the excitement of throwing, dripping and splashing paint with the artistic principles behind creating a powerful abstract artwork.
After a short introduction, your instructor will guide the group through a series of Action Painting techniques while explaining how abstract paintings are built through composition, layering, colour relationships and texture. Rather than recreating a predefined motif, you’ll gradually develop your own artwork over approximately two hours, allowing every splash, brushstroke and creative decision to influence what comes next.
Action Painting is an intuitive journey. Every mark on the canvas becomes the starting point for the next, creating a continuous process of acting, observing and reacting. Along the way, you’ll experiment with a wide variety of paints, tools and creative techniques while your instructor shares demonstrations, artistic guidance and individual feedback whenever you need it.
No two paintings will ever look alike. While everyone explores the same techniques together, each participant follows their own creative path, discovering their own balance between spontaneity and intention.
Whether you’re looking to switch off after a busy week, reconnect with your creativity or simply experience painting in a completely different way, Action Painting offers the freedom to experiment while giving you the artistic guidance to turn expressive marks into a finished abstract composition.
You’ll leave not only with a unique artwork, but with a deeper understanding of how abstract paintings evolve—and the confidence to trust your own creative instincts.
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A Textured Morning By The Sea
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
The sea was already awake, moving slowly.
This is a place you return to in memory — solid, calm, built layer by layer. A reminder that not everything needs to be light or perfect to be beautiful. Some things are meant to be felt, not thinned down.
In this textured painting session, we’ll work with modelling paste to create depth, structure, and a truly tactile landscape. You’ll learn how to effortlessly blend colour into the paste itself and apply it in different ways across the canvas, building surfaces that feel almost sculptural.
We’ll explore how to mix beautiful muted yet vibrant tones inspired by a Northern European landscape — atmospheric, cool, and quietly luminous rather than Mediterranean brightness. You’ll discover how subtle colour shifts and layered texture can create mood, distance, and emotional depth, turning the surface into something you can almost step into.
Paint & BRUNCH: Scent of Golden Mist
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop & Brunch
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 3 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Chill flowers. Warm shimmer. Fancy-ish fun.
In this laid-back, half-abstract floral session, we’re keeping things simple — but with a golden glow. Soft white flowers bloom against a dreamy mix of greys and warm metallic tones, creating a painting that feels calm, modern, and just a little bit glamorous.
This is all about effortless elegance. You’ll build your flowers using a mix of palette knife work and textured paste, giving them shape, depth, and a slightly sculptural feel that stands out beautifully from the background.
We’ll explore a range of playful techniques — from sponging and gentle gradients to subtle dripping effects — creating soft transitions and layered textures without overworking the piece. You’ll also learn how to work with metallic coloursso they keep their shine and don’t disappear into the acrylics.
Along the way, we’ll focus on how to combine different techniques harmoniously, and how to use contrast — between soft and bold, matte and shimmer, light and shadow — to create either a more dramatic statement or a calm, balanced composition.
Perfect for beginners, minimalists, and anyone who loves a touch of glow without the stress.
No pressure. No rules. Just relaxed vibes and a painting that quietly shines. ✨
Tenerife Calling · Oil Painting
Guided Oil Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
A lush island, a heat-soaked breeze, and colour that feels almost musical.
In this richly expressive oil painting session, we travel to Tenerife — where vibrant landscapes unfold under a late afternoon sun, and nature feels both wild and harmonious. In the foreground, a cluster of lush, tropical greenery anchors the scene, leading the eye into rolling forms of vegetation, volcanic undertones, and distant light.
The painting is driven by saturated greens and deep, atmospheric purples, layered and blended to create a sense of abundance, depth, and movement. At the same time, you’ll aim to capture that contrast only found in island air — the freshness of the ocean wind cutting through the warmth of the sun, softening and sharpening the landscape all at once.
Inspired by the expressive handling and luminous atmosphere of John Singer Sargent, we’ll focus on confident brushwork, fluid transitions, and building form through colour rather than tight detail. You’ll learn how to layer oils to create richness and depth, how to balance cool and warm tones within the same composition, and how to let brushstrokes remain alive and visible.
The result is a landscape that feels both immersive and painterly — a moment suspended between heat, wind, and glowing island light.
When Life Gives You Lemons · Oil Painting
Guided Oil Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Bright yellow fruit, glossy green leaves, and the soft play of shadow and light.
A still-life oil painting session with fresh colour, creamy texture, and classic technique.
In this guided session, you’ll learn how to capture the richness of lemons in oil — from the subtle shifts in their golden skin to the highlights that make them glow.
We’ll walk you through composition, layering, and blending so your colours stay vibrant, your textures feel rich, and your shadows bring depth. Every brushstroke builds towards a piece that feels fresh, balanced, and full of life.
It’s focused, calm, and deeply satisfying — a timeless still life with a citrus twist.
Atlantic Beachscape
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Action Painting Studio Basel
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Sculpt. Swipe. Splash. Let the coastline take shape.
In this hands-on textured art workshop, we’re heading seaside — no swimsuit needed. You’ll use plaster, modelling paste, and a mix of tools and materials to sculpt your own beachscape, building up textures that feel like real sand, foamy waves, and weathered shoreline details.
You’ll learn how to create and shape those beautiful, foamy waves, and how to work with different materials to achieve a variety of tactile effects within one piece. From soft, grainy sands to dynamic water movement, this session is all about turning your canvas into something you can almost feel.
The Atlantic has many faces — calm, wild, deep, or shimmering — and that’s exactly the spirit of this workshop. You’ll choose your own colour palette, define your own wave dynamics, and shape the mood of your coastline in a way that feels personal to you. It’s one of our favourite examples of how a simple theme can lead to completely different, unique creations.
If we had to recommend one workshop to start your journey with modelling paste, this would be it.
Golden Tears
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
A quiet face. A bold feeling. And tears worth their weight in gold.
Inspired by the evocative portraitsof Gustav Klimt — this piece focuses on a close-up of a woman’s face, both strong and soft, quiet and glowing.
In this painting session, you’ll bring your own interpretation to this elegant, emotional portrait, where sorrow and beauty sit side by side. With expressive brushwork, gilded accents, and subtle texture, you’ll explore the idea that tears — whether of grief or joy — are a kind of golden truth.
It’s powerful. It’s gentle. And it’s always a favourite.
Action Painting
Guided Expressive Abstract Art Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Action Painting Studio Basel
- 2.5 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Splash. Drip. Splatter. Total Freedom.
Looking for a creative experience that’s energetic, expressive and completely different from traditional painting?
Our Action Painting Workshop combines the excitement of throwing, dripping and splashing paint with the artistic principles behind creating a powerful abstract artwork.
After a short introduction, your instructor will guide the group through a series of Action Painting techniques while explaining how abstract paintings are built through composition, layering, colour relationships and texture. Rather than recreating a predefined motif, you’ll gradually develop your own artwork over approximately two hours, allowing every splash, brushstroke and creative decision to influence what comes next.
Action Painting is an intuitive journey. Every mark on the canvas becomes the starting point for the next, creating a continuous process of acting, observing and reacting. Along the way, you’ll experiment with a wide variety of paints, tools and creative techniques while your instructor shares demonstrations, artistic guidance and individual feedback whenever you need it.
No two paintings will ever look alike. While everyone explores the same techniques together, each participant follows their own creative path, discovering their own balance between spontaneity and intention.
Whether you’re looking to switch off after a busy week, reconnect with your creativity or simply experience painting in a completely different way, Action Painting offers the freedom to experiment while giving you the artistic guidance to turn expressive marks into a finished abstract composition.
You’ll leave not only with a unique artwork, but with a deeper understanding of how abstract paintings evolve—and the confidence to trust your own creative instincts.
Lemon Wings
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Soft morning light. Quiet air. A moment before the heat sets in.
In this painting session, we capture a delicate yellow butterfly resting on a chamomile flower — a scene that feels like an early summer morning in a blooming field. There’s still a hint of coolness in the air, a trace of fog lingering, even though you know the day will soon turn warm and heavy.
This piece is all about paint handling and contrast: thick, expressive application without using modelling paste. You’ll work with a combination of brush and palette knife, learning how to push, shape, and layer paint to create rich, tactile surfaces and a sense of movement within the subject.
We’ll also explore colour in two directions — how to achieve those clean, vibrant tones in the butterfly and flowers, and how to mix softer, muted shades for the background to create depth and atmosphere. You’ll see how these contrasts bring the subject forward while keeping the overall feeling calm and balanced.
A session that’s both technical and intuitive — where texture, colour, and light come together to capture that fleeting, quiet moment of a summer morning.
Letting Go
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Float, release, imagine.
In this acrylic session, you’ll paint Banksy’s iconic little girl — this time letting go of a cluster of drifting balloons — set against a bold, abstract background full of colour, texture, and playful motion. You’ll learn how to build dynamic layers with brushes and palette knives, blending shapes and strokes to create a vibrant atmosphere that makes the figure and balloons feel weightless.
No experience needed — just drop in, follow the guided steps, and enjoy painting something expressive, modern, and full of lift.
Golden Gleams and Emerald Greens
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- BASEL · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
One Glow. All the Mystery. Maximum Vibes.
Ready to get lost in colour and atmosphere?
In this abstract painting session, we’re diving into deep emerald greens and shimmering golden tones — building rich layers of texture, light, and mood without needing to paint anything specific.
You’ll learn how to blend soft transitions, create depth with contrast, and let the colours do the talking. No rules, no right or wrong — just a moment to get fully absorbed in the flow.
Who’s Painting With You in Basel?
Our painting studio in Basel is ready for whatever (and whoever) you bring along. Want to sip and splash with friends? Book a fun painting workshop and make some creative memories. Coming solo to learn or unwind? Our painting courses and open studio sessions are your perfect match.
Celebrating something? From birthdays to family moments, we’ve got colourful ways to mark the occasion. And if it’s your team that needs a break from spreadsheets, we host creative team-building events that actually spark joy.
Workshops
multi-day courses
team building events
Find Your Creative Community in Basel
Looking for a place to practice your new hobby, meet like-minded people, and get inspired while you work? That’s exactly what’s happening here. Our painting studio in Basel is becoming a creative home base — a place where beginners and seasoned artists share space, swap ideas, and just enjoy making stuff together.
At the heart of it all: our Studio Classes — regular sessions where we come together to work on our own projects, experiment, and learn from each other (with coffee, of course). Whether you join weekly or drop in when you can, you’ll always find a welcoming space and everything you need to get going:
- easels, painting tables & creative accessories
- Acrylic paints, watercolours, brushes, paper & canvases
- Space to store your works
- Workshops & courses
- Small bar with coffee & drinks.
FAQs - the most important facts about our painting studio in Basel
At the moment yes! Spontaneous drop-ins are not (yet) possible. Just write to us by email or WhatsApp and we'll reserve a place for you. Or sign up for one of our courses.
Whether you're painting for the first time or you're already a regular at the studio - you've come to the right place.
Just yourself and a good mood. You'll find everything else with us.
Unfortunately not at the moment. But don't worry: we're working on it - then you can drop in spontaneously.
Your work of art is yours, of course - hang it up at home or give it as a gift with love. Or simply bring it back with you next time and continue in peace. As a member, you can store unfinished works in our studio for up to two weeks.
«One of the best places in the city to switch off with creative projects, good coffee and a warm atmosphere. The studio offers unique courses and workshops - with a great team that combines knowledge with fun.»
Salony Roongta
«The evenings in the PIE Studio are always wonderful. A place where you can give free rein to your creativity and connect with like-minded people. Don't miss the chance - become part of the community!»
Laura Company
«A great place to get a little happiness boost and be creative! Wonderful people and a great atmosphere - definitely worth a visit. I've already done several drawing and painting courses in the studio and I'm really pleased that there's now a café too!»
Valentijn Broeken
«Paint It Easy is my creative feel-good place in Zurich. Whether painting courses, open studios or brunch & paint - everything is just right here. Great team, relaxed atmosphere and always new ideas to try out!»
Ally Z
«We absolutely loved the Creative Café - delicious food, a relaxed atmosphere and the creative freedom to just get started spontaneously. We painted ceramics, got inspired and immediately wanted to try lino printing on our next visit!»
Janiza Ouarab
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