- Drawing into watercolour painting
Course start date: Wed 14 Jan 2026 (and 2 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul DixonExplore the relationship between the two disciplines of drawing and watercolour painting and the opportunities when their distinct qualities are combined.Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £191.00 Concession £155.00 - Life painting: experimental approaches Course start date: Thu 29 Jan 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenExplore imaginative, dynamic approaches to painting the figure using a variety of approaches: be inspired by new ways of seeing and access innovative ways of approaching your life painting. Suitable for those with some previous life drawing experience.
Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Life painting: focus on light and shade Course start date: Fri 30 Jan 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lindsay PickettA great introduction to life painting working directly from the unclothed life model. Using simple projects, you will explore different ways to represent the human form through light and shade in paint to create volume, form and mood with encouraging helpful guidance from an experienced tutor.
Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Contemporary watercolour painting projects Course start date: Mon 2 Feb 2026 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Anne-Marie FosterThrough a set of short projects inspired by contemporary practitioners and their contribution to the uniqueness of the medium, the course will help you expand your understanding of watercolour and enable you to make informed choices in making personal work. It will also feature some approaches to painting, beyond the immediate western tradition to provide broader technical and critical insights.Full fee £339.00 Senior fee £271.00 Concession £220.00 - Ways into abstract painting 2 Course start date: Tue 10 Feb 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca AllenA follow-on course from Ways Into Abstract Painting. Explore colour, scale and mark-making in more depth to get the best out of your compositional ideas. Build skills in paint-handling, personal methods of developing abstract imagery, and confidence in discussing your work and themes.
Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Painting and drawing dialogues: looking back at self Course start date: Mon 23 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tony Hull, Monika KitaWe all have a unique way of looking at the world, shaping what we see to fit our reality. Explore how painting and drawing can magnify unconscious distortions and how memory and the imagination come to embody ‘the Self’ in image-making.Full fee £449.00 Senior fee £359.00 Concession £292.00 - Painting from plants and flowers Course start date: Mon 23 Feb 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sisetta ZapponeExplore a variety of creative approaches for painting flowers from observation. Discover the rich history of this genre while taking inspiration from artists who use flowers as their subject matter.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Developing watercolour painting Course start date: Tue 24 Feb 2026 (and 4 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Sisetta ZapponeExplore the specific qualities of watercolour and the opportunities this adaptable medium offers to create dynamic painting compositions. Develop a fluency with brush work and layering of colour to develop compositional possibilities.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Introduction to watercolour painting Course start date: Wed 25 Feb 2026 (and 5 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Adam HennesseyGain a grounding in the rich possibilities available when working with watercolour paint. Through a series of practical studies, you will investigate the potential of this versatile medium.Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00 - Ways into landscape painting Course start date: Sat 28 Feb 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Jack Duplock
This practical course introduces a variety of approaches to expand your understanding of landscape painting.Full fee £389.00 Senior fee £311.00 Concession £253.00 - Oil painting: focus on portraiture Course start date: Sun 1 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Desmond HaughtonLearn to draw and paint portraits using traditional methods of observation, composition and mark making. Working from a variety of professional portrait models you will start with pencil and charcoal and progress on to oil painting.Full fee £259.00 Senior fee £207.00 Concession £168.00 - Artists eye painting projects: the green world Course start date: Tue 3 Mar 2026
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Kate HardyMake paintings inspired by artists whose subject is nature, be guided by their choices of subject matter, and learn from their methods. Eye-opening projects to inspire painters at all levels of experience. This is a live on-line practical course.
Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Painting: mixing for skintones Course start date: Thu 12 Mar 2026 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course will teach you the skills you need to paint naturalistic skin tones when working from life which will make your figure and portrait paintings more convincing.Full fee £209.00 Senior fee £167.00 Concession £136.00 - Painting for beginners Course start date: Fri 13 Mar 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Begona Morea RoyThrough simple exercises you will explore basic methods of painting in acrylic from still-life, mixing and matching the colours and textures observed. Learn how to set up your workspace and begin to enjoy painting in a studio environment, using a variety of brushes and tools.
Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £103.00 - Portrait painting: two session pose Course start date: Sat 21 Mar 2026 (and 2 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Amanda BrackenDevelop a portrait from life: a structured course to build skills towards making a convincing portrait where the model keeps the same pose over 2 sessions to enable a sustained piece of work.Full fee £219.00 Senior fee £175.00 Concession £142.00
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