City Lit Art School — Art Classes in London
Explore new and exciting subjects within a range of art and design disciplines, develop your skill set, get the support required to change career or launch yourself as a freelance artist or designer. All this and more delivered through our practical and engaging art and design courses at City Lit.
Our range of part-time, weekend and evening art and design classes are taught by successful artists and practitioners to ensure you get the skills, knowledge and experience you want and deserve. From experimental painting and drawing to contemporary jewellery making, there is sure to be a course for you. Study from 1 day to 2 years, whether you are a complete beginner or a practising artist preparing for an MA. Our courses are designed with you in mind, so you get to spend more time doing what you love.
Set a new goal, start your next creative adventure with City Lit and let us support you to realise your ambitions.
We host exhibitions throughout the year at City Lit Gallery where our students showcase their amazing work.
Any questions? Contact our visual arts team on visual.arts@citylit.ac.uk
- Da Vinci Resolve video editing: stage 2Course start date: Wed 22 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczImprove and speed up your process and learn to use vital techniques for improving your edits. Explore building a better narrative structure and find out about essentials like screen-directionality, POV constructions and rhythm building..Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Photography workshop: Lightroom
Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingThis course is for photographers who want to learn how to create the most efficient Lightroom Catalogue as well as learn the editing skills in the programme. Students will learn professional and effective ways to use Lightroom as well as creating their own workflow for the future.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Introduction to pattern cutting III Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
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 £439.00 Senior fee £351.00 Concession £285.00 - City Lit contemporary collage projects 3 Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jera MayCity Lit contemporary collage projects 1 initiates a year-long set of collage and mixed media projects designed to experiment with and examine the interplay between the two and three dimensions. You will work with a wide range of materials, on and off the wall, extending our pictorial practice into the realm of collage, painting, drawing, assemblage, bricolage, decoupage, photomontage, small scale constructions, printing and text within the context of mixed media.
Note* the course is designed in a way to enable students to either complete all three courses over the year or to come in at any stage in no particular order.Full fee £839.00 Senior fee £671.00 Concession £545.00 - Jewellery: stone setting III Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rae DuncanAlready explored some of the skills of mount-making and stone-setting but want to take your expertise to another level? Experience the more complicated techniques of mounting a variety of stone shapes, as well as practising your grasp of claw and collet settings. Integrate new stone-setting techniques with your existing knowledge to give the ultimate professional finish to your jewellery.Full fee £419.00 Senior fee £335.00 Concession £272.00 - Layout and grid designCourse start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: John SmythLearn the skills required to create your own publication in this layout and grid design course. This course will teach you the design principles for layout design, exploring magazine layout and other publication design and empowering you to innovate and create your own publication.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Da Vinci Resolve video editing: stage 3Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczThis course offers valuable insider tricks, best practice ideas and general tips on how to improve your editing and efficiency.
Previous experience with DVR is essential.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00 - Bookbinding: 10 projects for beginners Course start date: Thu 23 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Kate RochesterAn exciting range of graded projects to introduce you to bookbinding. Come armed with enthusiasm and walk away with a stack of small books and a heap of information on materials, tools and techniques.Full fee £409.00 Senior fee £327.00 Concession £266.00 - Large-scale sketchbook Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony HullExplore the sequential and adaptive nature of large format sketchbook drawing as a site for generating personal material, inviting connections, and extracting patterns of meaning. Includes artist research, set-project as stimulus, and practical exploration of contemporary drawing techniques.
Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Painting: colour mixing for artists Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenA concise study of colour usage. Investigate colour perception and how colour interacts. Explore a range of observational and expressive painting projects, relate colour theory to practice and develop confidence using colour.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Cut, stab and etch: printmaking with linocuts Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lisa CradduckCut, stab and etch your way to dynamic blocks and exciting prints. Practical instruction in both traditional and inventive linocut printmaking techniques, including the reduction method developed by Picasso, multiple block printing and Polish dot linocut.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Drawing cartoons Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Stephen MarchantLearn the basics of cartoon drawing in this fun introductory course. Explore the fundamentals of drawing facial expressions, exaggerated features and body movements that will shape your characters.
Practice comic book creation, looking at frames, pacing and panelling that all add to the design of your very own comic strip or comic book.
Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Woodblock and lino printmaking workshopCourse start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Robert WhiteThis course introduces you to new ways of combining printmaking with creative thinking by using multiple printmaking techniques and processes, layering them to produce compositions that can be made into artworks to take away with you.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Looking at photography: colour and composition Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Michael HardingWant to learn the secrets of composing beautiful photographs? Join this inspiring workshop to explore composition and colour controls, making the most of shapes, lines, colours, framing, the rule of thirds and simple camera controls for professional-looking results.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £89.00 - Screen printing workshop Course start date: Fri 24 Apr 2026 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rolina Elsje BlokEnjoy 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 £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00
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