Painting studio Zurich
Painting studio Zurich - Your creative side
Colours, shapes, freedom: in our painting studio in Zurich you will find plenty of inspiration and space for your ideas.
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Painting - according to your flow
Our painting studio in Zurich is more than just a traditional painting studio: it's your own personal creative space. Whether you just want to paint away, work on a project or try out new techniques - you'll find everything you need here. You can work without a course commitment - but with professional equipment and, if you wish, with support or a group connection. The painting studio in Zurich adapts to your style. Just drop by and get started.
Painting studio Zurich - your creative space in the centre of the city
Our location offers you two large rooms where you can give free rein to your creativity. Centrally located and easily accessible.
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Bederstrasse 94
8002 Zurich
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Swiss Summer
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Bright mountains, a shimmering lake, and light that feels almost alive.
Step into a radiant alpine world where the air is crystal clear and colours glow with a quiet, powerful intensity. Inspired by the luminous spirit and rhythmic compositions of Ferdinand Hodler, we’ll step into his footsteps and explore how to build a landscape through expressive brushwork and layered painting.
In this session, you’ll learn how to create depth and perspective in a landscape — how distant peaks, water, and sky can unfold through colour, contrast, and structure. We’ll explore how to bring dynamic, energetic detail into the brushwork while still holding the whole composition together as a unified, harmonious scene.
We’ll guide you through shimmering water, luminous layering techniques, and the gentle geometry of alpine peaks. You bring your curiosity and calm focus — and a willingness to enter a landscape that feels slightly brighter, more alive, and more structured than reality itself.
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.
Abstract Series: Chromatic Medley
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Abstract art. No rules. Endless possibilities.
Forget perfection. Forget painting inside the lines. This workshop is all about discovering how expressive, playful and surprisingly personal abstract painting can be.
Although every participant explores the same techniques and artistic principles, no two paintings will ever look alike. With guidance from your instructor, you’ll discover how abstract artworks are built through composition, colour, layering, texture and movement. Along the way, you’ll explore inspiring examples from contemporary abstract art before gradually developing your own visual language.
Some people create calm, minimalist compositions. Others fill the canvas with bold colours, energetic gestures and expressive textures. That’s the beauty of abstraction—there isn’t one right answer. Every creative decision opens the door to countless new directions.
Whether you prefer to follow the demonstrations closely or experiment beyond them, this workshop offers the perfect balance between learning new techniques and trusting your own artistic instincts.
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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Heavy Dose of Spring
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Creative Café Zürich
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Soft petals, bold texture, and paint you can almost feel.
Step into the tactile world of textured acrylic painting, where a floral bouquet becomes something you build, shape, and sculpt. Using acrylic paint and modelling paste, we’ll focus on creating rich, dimensional forms that lift off the canvas.
You’ll learn how to mix the paste to the right consistency — smooth, workable, and easy to control — and how to apply it in layers to create depth and structure. We’ll explore how to form petals, add movement, and bring dynamic texture into your brushwork while keeping the composition balanced.
No flat surfaces — just texture, rhythm, and a painting that feels as alive as it looks.
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.
Endless Chase
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Run, reach, repeat.
In this acrylic session, you’ll paint the little girl from the famous Banksy artwork — this time chasing a heart-shaped balloon — set against a classical Swiss mountain landscape with a contemporary twist. You’ll learn how to create those crisp snow caps on the mountains using a palette knife, while adding your own colour and energy to the hills and sky.
No experience needed — just roll up, follow the guided steps, and enjoy painting something playful, bold, and full of movement.
Swimming Jewels · Watercolor Painting
Guided Watercolour Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Two fish, one pond, and a world of flowing colour.
In this playful watercolour session, we dive into a serene pond scene featuring two beautifully loose, colourful white fish gliding between water lilies, floating pads, and delicate blossoms. It’s all about movement, softness, and letting the water do part of the work for you.
This piece is perfect for exploring the wet-on-wet technique — watching pigments bloom, blend, and surprise you as they spread across the paper. You’ll learn how to control (and sometimes release control of) your washes, creating different levels of pigment intensity to suggest depth, light, and transparency in the water.
Alongside the fluidity, we’ll also gently introduce selective detail — knowing when to let edges dissolve and when a few thoughtful marks can bring a fish, a petal, or a lily pad into focus.
It’s a balance of spontaneity and intention: soft washes, flowing colour, and just enough detail to guide the eye through a calm, living pond scene.
Action Painting
Guided Expressive Abstract Art Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 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.
https://shop.paintiteasy.ch/en/tickets/terms
Atlantic Beachscape
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 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.
Paint & BRUNCH: Golden Marine Hues
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop & Brunch
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 3 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 marine blues 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.
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. ✨
Work at your own pace
You have many options in our painting studio in Zurich. You can either work freely at your own pace or opt for our guided programmes. We offer you exactly what you have in mind. And the most important thing: you don't have to do anything and work without any pressure or stress. Whether it's free painting or a supervised workshop - you decide what your studio day looks like.
Painting studio Zurich
Our painting studio is well equipped. You can find your flow in our large rooms. One studio is located right next to the Creative Café - perfect for relaxed painting with a café vibe. The second room is in the basement, in a quiet location and also ideal for concentrated work or group workshops. Both rooms are fully equipped - you don't need to bring anything with you. We offer you:
- Easels, painting tables & creative tools
- Acrylic paints, watercolours, brushes, paper & canvases
- Peace & space for creative work
- Storage space for your works
- Regular courses & workshops
- Access to the café with terrace
FAQs - the most important facts about our painting studio in Zurich
This depends on whether you are taking part in an event, course, studio class or open studio. You should book online for guided programmes. If you want to go to the Creative Café, it's best to book a table or give us a call - but you can also just drop by spontaneously.
Absolutely. Whether newcomer or experienced creative mind - everyone is welcome here
Nothing - we have everything here. But you are also welcome to use your own material
Yes, the painting studio is open to everyone during our opening hours.
Right next door you'll find our Creative Café with finger food, bowls, wraps, drinks, cocktails and a cosy terrace.
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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