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
Summer School – 2 Days: Art and Design for Young People 13-17 years
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: 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: Drypoint and Chine Colle
Suitable for complete beginners or those with some experience. We'll explore the wide range of mark-making that can be achieved in a drypoint print. Then using a technique called Chine Collé to experiment with adding colour and texture to your prints.
Summer School – 2 Days: 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 – 2 Days: Exploring Etching on Steel
Open to experienced etchers or complete beginners, this 2-day practical printmaking workshop will explore making and printing from steel plates. Steel has exciting properties that make it a great metal for experimentation. It’s particularly suited to deeply etched marks and tactile textures as well as printing in vibrant and intense colour.
Summer School – 2 Days: Family Learning Drawing and Painting 7-12 years
With an emphasis on fun, this is an opportunity to work with your child on some great creative projects
Summer School – 2 Days: Introduction to Pottery 14 Plus 3D Campus
This two-day pottery workshop will introduce beginners to the basic throwing and handbuilding techniques for creating forms in clay.
Summer School – 2 Days: Introduction to Pottery 3D Campus
This two-day pottery workshop will introduce beginners to the basic throwing and handbuilding techniques for creating forms in clay.
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: Life Sculpture (All Levels)
This course will teach you sculpture from life from a nude and clothed model using clay. It is aimed at all levels of ability; beginners, intermediate and advanced students.
Summer School – 2 Days: Oil Painting (Int/Adv)
This intermediate to advance oil painting course offers the opportunity for you to develop your personal painting style.
Summer School – 2 Days: Photography for Young People
On this course participants aged 14+ years will learn to use a digital camera in a fun and creative way.
Summer School – 2 Days: Pottery Workshop 3D Campus
This course is aimed at anyone interested in clay and pottery. Experienced potters will be able to work on their own projects while beginners will be introduced to various pottery techniques, and good studio practices.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting for Textiles (Beginners)
Explore screen printing on fabric. Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils which is intrinsic to textile design for fashion, interior and fine art purposes.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting for Textiles (Int/Adv)
Explore screen printing on fabric. Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils which is intrinsic to textile design for fashion, interior and fine art purposes.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Beginners)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image using stencils and the process is intrinsic to graphics, advertising and packaging.
Summer School – 2 Days: Screenprinting Workshop (Intermediate/Advanced)
Screenprinting is a method of making an image by creating stencils on a screen. The process can applied in many ways including fine art printing on paper, large scale fabric printing as well as industrial printing of packaging for example.
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 – 3 Days Etching (All Levels)
All Levels. This course is suitable for complete beginners, those wanting to refresh their skills and experienced etchers.
Summer School – 3 Days: Art and Design for Young People 13-17 years
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.
