Art & Design Short Courses

Get a taste of how you can improve your outside spaces. In this online workshop you will learn how to assess an outside space and complete a short exercise in garden design planning. A great preparation for our range of beginners garden design courses.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

A contemporary approach to hand stitching and embroidery exploring a variety of traditional stitches and techniques.



Create experimental and expressive samples using traditional and non-traditional materials.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

If you are new to 3D animation, you’ve had a go at teaching yourself but are not making progress, or perhaps you are transferring to Blender from a different 3D program, this course is for you.



It will take you through a professional approach to creating characters and environments in 3D from scratch, as well as introducing workflows and techniques to help produce polished 3D animations of your own.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

Discover contemporary techniques of printing onto fabric with natural dyes.



Through demonstrations, personal exploration, and individual tuition you will learn how to use mordents and natural dye colours, and transform your textile designs into prints.

Improve and speed up your editing, learn to use all trimming and motion tools properly. Explore building a better narrative structure and find out about essentials like screen-directionality and POV constructions.

Want 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.

Florals and plant studies can provide exciting inspiration for contemporary textile designs; explore some methods of drawing flora, and start to create ideas that could grow into a printed design.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

This 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.

Make the most of your small garden and learn design and plant selection techniques tailored to your space. Discover how to understand your site and explore practical design solutions and tips on choosing the right materials and plants for your garden.



This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.

An introduction to some of the main ways of thinking about photography, based on cultural theory, politics, philosophy and semiotics.