We have a huge variety of drawing and painting courses to offer including Book Illustration, Life & Figure Drawing, Oil Painting, Watercolours and Gouache as well as Experimental Art & Media.
Portraiture (All Levels)
This course is ideal for complete beginners who have never drawn or painted from a live model before, or for those with some experience, who’d like to brush up their skills and gain confidence in their drawing and colour work.
Short Drawing Courses: In the Studio & on Location
You will be able to explore the creative possibilities of drawing, gain confidence and broaden your expectations and understanding of the subject. Each highly focused course will cover slightly different aspects of drawing. For example the function of line, tone, texture, mark making and composition, through carefully structured approaches. On occasion we may spend time drawing in galleries or museums. The courses are suitable for both experienced students and those just beginning their drawing journeys.
Summer School – Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal: Matisse – Still Life
Take what you need from this course which explores the colour and ambiguities of space in the still-life paintings of Henri Matisse, and how these works influenced late twentieth-century painters such as Hans Hofmann, Richard Diebenkorn, and Nicolas de Staël.
Summer School – 2 Days: Creative Landscape Painting
Exploring different materials and approaches to creating lively landscape responses.
Summer School – 2 Days: Creative Sketchbooks
Exploring different materials and approaches to creating a lively and an exciting artist's sketchbook that will support in developing and transforming your creative ideas.
Summer School – 2 Days: Introduction to Watercolour
This course is ideal for complete beginners who have never used watercolour before, or for those with some experience, who’d like to brush up their skills and gain confidence in using this medium. .
Summer School – 2 Days: Watercolour & Experimental Techniques
This course is designed for beginners with little or no experience with the delicate medium of watercolour or those with some experience wanting to explore its potential further.
Summer School – 2 Days: Watercolour Painting
This course is aimed at complete beginners who want to learn the basics of watercolour or students with some knowledge wanting to improve their watercolour skills.
Summer School – Abstract Drawing & Collage
This course is designed for beginners with little or no experience, wanting to explore experimental approaches to drawing and collage work.
Summer School – Abstract Painting
This course is designed for beginners with little or no experience, or experienced painters wanting to explore the possibilities of abstraction in their work. Abstract art focuses on expression, emotion, and experimentation rather than realistic representation. It’s all about colour, form, texture, and movement. This workshop will explore the freedom and boldness of abstract composition.
Summer School – Drawing & Painting Pets
This painting class will guide you through the steps of painting your pet, whether it is your furry companion or a more exotic addition to the family including birds or reptiles.
Summer School – Drawing & Pastels (All Levels)
A workshop exploring chalk pastels. This course is ideal for beginners as well as those who have some experience of using chalk pastels and would like to improve their skills with drawing and colour. We offer this as a two-day or a one-day intensive course.
Summer School – Experimenting with Colour
This practical course is ideal for beginner students with a little drawing experience, for those interested in design and colour, or students who’d like to gain confidence and improve their use of colour in different mediums.
Summer School – Expressive Pastels: Landscapes
A one-day workshop exploring chalk pastels. Known for its vibrant effects, chalk pastel is a great medium, combining colour and drawing with an expressive immediacy.
Summer School – Expressive Pastels: Still Life
A one-day workshop exploring chalk pastels. Known for its vibrant effects, chalk pastel is a great medium, combining colour and drawing with an expressive immediacy
Summer School – Good Artists Copy Great Artist Steal by The River Thames: Picasso – Landscape
‘Take What You Need’ from exploring the of Picasso, with the goal of helping you develop skills that will enhance your ability to paint on location by the Thames, using your medium of choice.
Summer School – Introduction to Book Arts
The purpose of this course is to develop skills in book arts and support participants in creating their own identity as makers. To achieve this, we begin with a discovery process (of choice) that introduces the history, fundamentals, materials, context, and creative potential of either adhesive or non-adhesive bindings.
Summer School – Introduction to Drawing & Painting
An exciting introductory drawing and painting course, you will explore different approaches, methods and materials.
Summer School – Introduction to Illustration
On this one-day course we will cover aspects of illustration and aims to enable students to respond to a brief.
Summer School – Introduction to Watercolour
This course is ideal for complete beginners who have never used watercolour before, or for those with some experience, who’d like to brush up their skills and gain confidence in using this medium. .
