Courses & Workshops

Freefall is a youth arts group for young people aged between 13-16 years run by Exeter Phoenix. The group aims to create a space to socialize, share ideas and opinions and develop creative projects together. 

A place where you can write in silence with others. Make time to work on your novel, memoir, short story, play or poetry in this warm and supportive space.

Use stop motion animation techniques to design, plan and shoot a short film using your favourite Lego from home.

Work in pairs with a family member or friend and use fun techniques to create portraits of each other.

A new addition to our All Ages workshops, be inspired by the plants
we come across in our everyday lives and learn how to draw them to
create a personal record of your favourites.

Work from a model and explore the principles of life drawing in our Saturday 1/2 day workshops. Perfect for beginners or those wishing to improve their skills.

This half day course is an introduction to 2D cut-out animation, giving adults and children a chance to work together to create their very own animated character.

This course is aimed at those wishing to develop a more abstract way of working and will draw on seasonal changes in the landscape for inspiration as well as your own favourite images and memories.

An exploration of the use of collage through dive into the work of pioneering artists and experimental approaches to creating your own series of collages.

An ideal course for those wishing to further develop an individual abstract painting style. Explore a range of techniques for developing painting skills, use of colour and composition.

A course that welcomes both beginners and experienced painters
Immerse yourself in the wonderful world of super intense
watercolour, exploring texture and resist techniques

Create an abundance of collage papers using Gelli plate printing
techniques, to devise unique and exciting new work.

Plan and produce your own short audio feature for podcast or broadcast.

This popular course takes a close look at the plants we use in our everyday lives in this course we will be drawing with pigments derived from some of these plants to create unique illustrations of the herbs, vegetables and flowers that have particular significance to us

Develop your approach to life drawing using our fantastic models for inspiration, investigate different materials and techniques to find new ways to represent the human form.

Designed for new and emerging scriptwriters to push their work to a professional level.

Whether looking to expand a company’s reach or just enhance your own films, adding visual effects and animation can be a great way to drive a message home, bringing a film or video to life and visually articulate your ideas and propositions. Get more out of your brand by integrating video into your marketing or give your own short films a professional and polished finish.

This popular Saturday morning group for 8-13 year olds provides fun and detailed exploration of both digital and stop motion animation.

This animation course, designed for autistic young people, with smaller class sizes, explores digital and stop motion animation.

Work with willow and other materials to weave a sculptural vessel to
use or to display as a decoration.

Join this six-week course where, at the end of it, you’ll have a 2000 word short story that you can be proud of, and is competition ready.