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- Etching workshopCourse start date: Tue 11 Mar 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloAn exciting introduction to the basic processes and principles of etching. Using zinc plate, create beautiful images with line, texture and tone, and experiment with printing your image in both monochrome and colour.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Drawing 3Course start date: Mon 15 Apr 2024 (and 6 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Explore a range of materials and challenging approaches to develop your creative potential in drawing, informed by artists contexts. Building on your previous experience, develop your observational drawing skills for greater accuracy and complexity as well as learning to manipulate composition, surface and mark-making to create dynamic, expressive drawings.Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00 - Life painting: focus on light and shadeCourse start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
A great introduction to tonal painting working directly from the unclothed life model model. Using simple projects, you will explore different ways to represent the human form through light and shade in paint with encouraging helpful guidance from an experienced tutor.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Introduction to printmaking techniquesCourse start date: Tue 17 Sep 2024 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon BurderThis fast-paced course reveals some of the processes used to make fine art prints. You will try both relief and intaglio printmaking methods. This course is for beginners and those with limited experience who want to discover how printmaking techniques actually work. An ideal way to start printmaking.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Portraits and people photographyCourse start date: Tue 24 Sep 2024 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Lorenzo BerniDiscover the secrets of successful portraiture, from the studio-lit portrait to street and documentary photography, or those special moments for the family album. Gain confidence in photographing people through practical work indoors and out, teaching you invaluable skills in lighting, composition and poses, to produce a beautiful portrait portfolio.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Calligraphy and illuminationCourse start date: Tue 23 Apr 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Emiko HashiguchiLearn how to write beautifully with a dip pen and design and produce a piece of work with illuminated letters using colour and gold leaf. All levels.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Bookbinding: learn to bind artists' booksCourse start date: Tue 24 Sep 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettExplore the world of artists’ books and learn to make your own books that bring your creative interests to life. Whether you are a beginner or returner, this course will help you to find ways of combining book structures with visual and textual material to create your own artist's book. - Black and white digital photographyCourse start date: Tue 18 Mar 2025 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Kean Street Photography Studio
Tutors: Sara Leigh LewisShape, form, pattern and texture take on added significance in black-and-white photography. Without colour to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. Discover these elements and the basic rules of black and white photography.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gareth BerwynEnjoy being guided through inspirational and experimental screenprinting methods. You'll try a variety of mixed media techniques that will energise and enliven your artwork - a great way to expand your image making practice and your portfolio.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting IIICourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rachel SelormeyThis is a chance to work on your own project of your own choice creating a pattern of a garment you have designed or,a style you have always wanted to recreate from your favored garment.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Jewellery: wax carving and electroformingCourse start date: Tue 29 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Katrin SprangerExplore wax carving and discover the potential of electroforming. In the process you will transform models from carved wax, Polymorph and organic found objects, such as twigs, leaves and seashells and coat these in copper. Bring a selection of materials/small objects that you may want to electroform and learn how to prepare them, handle the electroforming tank and chemicals and integrate attachments to create lightweight and hollow jewellery pieces.Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £199.00 Concession £162.00 - From traditional to digital illustration workshopCourse start date: Wed 30 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Adobe Creative Suite is the principal software used by Illustrators and Designers all over the world. On this course, learn how to take scribbly sketches and inky splotches into Adobe Photoshop and transform them into illustrations, collages, pattern designs… the possibilities are almost endless; thankfully, you will also be taught a crucial skill of digital illustration - knowing when to stop!
Our Workshops enable you to take a deep dive into a specific process, media or tool.
They throw the spotlight onto niche areas of the visual communication field, enabling you to hone higher-level skills and gain deeper insights.
Workshops tend to have a practical focus, with little or no theory or context, although this varies by course.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Lithography printmaking workshopCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Simon BurderLearn how to produce work that mimics a painterly style using lithography printmaking processes. Lithography depends on the delicate balance between grease and water and can provide a broad range of outcomes. Learn how marks and brush strokes drawn and painted on the printing plate can be faithfully reproduced to create bold or subtle prints.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - Advanced visual communications: where is the truth?Course start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Andrew McCartenThis advanced course examines the representation of truth and the manipulation of meaning through text and image, an issue with critical importance for the current times, from a number of perspectives. Working across a range of media and techniques employed in creative design and visual communications, we will examine examples in print, broadcast and on-line media.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £349.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £244.00 - Bookbinding: artists' book projectsCourse start date: Tue 21 May 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sue DoggettDevelop your creative and practical book arts skills on this intermediate course. Expand on your ideas about the relationship between the structure and the concept of the book and engage in in-depth research and development of your intended project proposal with one-to-one tutorial support and lively critical group discussion. Not suitable for beginners.Full fee £509.00 Senior fee £407.00 Concession £331.00
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