Our specialist and holiday courses change each term, so why not explore our offerings below to find out more about what’s on offer at the moment.
Our wide range of courses offer classes for all age groups and interests. Whether you’re a first time potter or an experienced painter – we’ve got something for you.
February Half Term Courses Coming Soon
May Half Term – Introduction To Pottery
This two-day workshop will introduce beginners to the basic throwing and handbuilding techniques for creating forms in clay.
May Half Term – Kids Art & Craft 8-12 years
With an emphasis on fun, this is an opportunity to work with your child on some great creative projects.
May Half Term – Landscape Drawing & Painting
Landscape is the focus for an exploration of drawing and painting in a range of media and techniques. Weather permitting, we will go outside for plain air sketching to collect reference material for use back in the studio.
May Half Term – Learn to Draw – 3d Campus
On this two-day course, you’ll be introduced to some of the basic skills of observational drawing, including line, space, tone and proportion.
May Half Term – Lino Printing Day
The course will cover the creation of your design, colour mixing and finishing to a professional standard whilst exploring relief printing using lino blocks in just one day.
May Half Term – Open Studio Etching
Open studio Printmaking sessions are available to those that already have experience of printing techniques
May Half Term – Open Studio Painting
Painting Open Studio is for experienced students or advanced painting skills so that they can work independently.
May Half Term – Open Studio: Pottery
This is a practical course, which will be tailored to the individual student capabilities.
May Half Term – Open Studio: Screenprinting
Open studio screenprinting sessions are available to those that already have experience of screenprinting and are interested in developing their own projects.
May Half Term – Photoshop for Artists & Illustrators
Photoshop is an incredibly useful tool for managing image creation and preparation. We will work with both drawings and photographs.
May Half Term – Printmaking for Young People 13-17 years
An enjoyable and challenging 2-day introduction to printing including lino and monoprinting.
NEW Fine Art Textiles
In the last decade the expressive skills of crafts and making have become valued as fine art practice. This course will allow students to work creatively with a broad range of materials and processes usually associated with textiles. It will provide an opportunity to explore and combine a variety of accessible techniques.
NEW Portfolio Preparation 3D Campus
If you wish to develop a good grounding in a variety aspects of painting, drawing and mixed media together with an awareness of contemporary and historical art . In particular those who may wish to put together a portfolio for application to a higher level* course or employment in a related field.
Summer School – Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal: Richard Diebenkorn
‘Take What You Need’ from exploring how Matisse influenced the compositions, light and layering techniques of Richard Diebenkorn’s expressionist paintings
Summer School – Painting from Photographs
Photographs offer wonderful opportunities for artists.
Summer School – 2 Days Collagraph Printmaking Workshop
A two-day course where you will create collagraph plates using simple found materials, textured papers, glue, resins and more.
Summer School – 2 Days: Architectural Drawing & Painting: Expressions
This class will seek to find ways to create lively and expressive drawings and paintings of buildings.
Summer School – 2 Days: Art and Design for Young People 13-17 years – 3D Campus & Main Site
An enjoyable and challenging course designed to build on existing skills to create a varied body of work useful for GCSE and A level course work or for a dynamic foundation portfolio.
Summer School – 2 Days: Drawing & Pastels (All Levels)
A two-day 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.
