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- 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 - City Lit advanced jewelleryCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Elizabeth Bone, Rae Duncan, Katrin SprangerThis advanced course will refine your existing jewellery making and design skills, through sessions in the workshop and guided independent study tasks. With an ethos of ‘idea to product,’ developing your personal research, design and making approach, there will be structured modules and projects encouraging you to build on your technical skills, presentation, and professional practice. We will explore material, finish and construction, alongside professional practice methodologies such as drawing, prototyping, outsourcing, pricing, and selling. The course culminates with working towards the production of a final body of work to be exhibited in public. - City Lit advanced jewellery workshopCourse start date: Tue 1 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Work independently on your own jewellery projects in our well equipped jewellery workshop. This is an opportunity for self-directed and untutored bench time, sharing the studio with the year long VV414 City Lit fine jewellery course.Full fee £849.00 Senior fee £849.00 Concession £594.00 - Printmaking studio: focus on colourCourse start date: Tue 8 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloA course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate and hone technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high quality prints.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £343.00 Concession £279.00 - Contemporary practice: personal projectCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
This advanced course in contemporary creative practice will support you in developing a personal project through research, experimentation, development and exhibition in a supportive studio environment. The course is facilitated by practising artists, theorists and curators.
This course requires an application prior to enrolment. Please contact Visual Arts for more information.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,525.00 - Advanced children's book illustration: professional practiceCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tim Ellis, Zehra Hicks, Dee ShulmanInterested in a career in Children’s Book Illustration, or advancing your practice to the next level? With the guidance and support of your tutors, you will have the opportunity to engage with experienced industry professionals, and develop your practice and personal visual vocabulary to a professional standard.
Confirmed visitors/speakers include:
- Rachel Petty, author/illustrator agent at the Blair Partnership, former editorial director Macmillan Children's Books,
- Margaret Hope, art director, Welbeck Publishing Group
- Arabella Stein, Managing Director, Bright Agency.Full fee £2,449.00 Senior fee £1,959.00 Concession £1,714.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Fri 11 Oct 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Gareth BerwynLearn how to create multicolour or monochrome relief prints. You'll be encouraged to work from your own source imagery (sketches, magazine cuttings, photos etc) as an inspirational lead-in to producing relief prints to take home.Full fee £229.00 Senior fee £183.00 Concession £149.00 - City Lit fine art: year 2Course start date: Mon 9 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Kath Castillo, Amanda Knight, Steven ScottYear 2 of the City Lit Fine Art course enables you to consolidate and focus the various experiences and ideas you will have gained in year 1. (Direct entry to year 2 is also possible, via interview, if you have an appropriate level of prior experience.) You will adopt simple research methods to reflect upon, identify and develop a personal creative project on a more individual, self-motivated route. This will result in the development of a cohesive body of new work that reflects your own interests. You will have group critiques, one-to-one tutorials and all day studio production sessions that allow you to explore and refine your creative skills, and seminars and presentations in which you will engage with new ideas and contexts; all delivered by experienced, practicing artists. Some basic materials are included.
You will have the opportunity to help organise and present some of your recent work in a group exhibition, via negotiation and with the support of your tutors. 2 – 4pm online Zoom sessions on alternate Mondays (15 in total)
10am – 5pm in City Lit studios. On alternate Tuesdays (16 in total)
6pm – 9pm in City Lit digital media suite. On 4 or 5 alternate Tuesday evenings per term (12 in total.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,525.00 - Introduction to painting still-lifeCourse start date: Tue 5 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Learn the essentials of Still Life painting from paint handling and colour theory to composition.
Dedicate some time to developing your painting in a series of controlled steps. Learn to select and prepare surfaces and materials, build a composition around still life objects and make supplementary studies to guide your colour application. For absolute beginners.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Sketchbooks: materials and techniquesCourse start date: Thu 7 Nov 2024 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Joe RichardsonA fantastic introduction to creative processes using a variety of different media to develop an exciting sketchbook. A sketchbook is a great place to try things out, make mistakes and take risks - all in the nature of experimentation. Suitable for beginners as well as those with some previous drawing experience.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Introduction to still-life in pastelsCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ro SylvesterExplore a variety of techniques and approaches to making a still-life in pastels. Learn how to mix pastels on paper, choose suitable materials and supports to allow you to create a finished pastel drawing.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00 - Printmaking workshop: focus on colourCourse start date: Tue 16 Apr 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kath CastilloA course for intermediate and experienced printmakers wanting to build on previous experience and experiment with process to consolidate and hone technical skills. The focus is on colour application, advanced intaglio processes, realising personal projects and the production of high quality prints.
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