Courses & Workshops

Ideal for both complete beginners or painters ready to expand their skills, this course will encourage playful experimentation and help you discover the confidence to explore your own distinctive colour palette. We will be creating studies and sketches looking at how we can start to work with our colours to produce our own expressive colourful artworks

This course is designed for artists of all levels to explore techniques for combining collage, texture and mark-making with acrylic painting. It focuses on creating layered, expressive artworks that help develop skills, confidence, and a unique artistic voice.

This 5-week course helps artists of all levels improve their hand-drawing skills working with a range of media participants will learn to observe and depict the shape, texture, light, and gesture of hands, explore their symbolism, and experiment with composition to develop their own style.

This course covers a variety of technical and expressive approaches to life drawing while offering an insight into their uses in art history and contemporary art.

Discover the inspiring worlds of five remarkable women artists. Each week, explore the lives and artworks of Leonora Carrington, Gwen John, Hilma af Klint, Maria de Silva, and Käthe Kollwitz. Learn how their historical, political, and personal contexts influenced their art, and develop your own creative practice inspired by their art. Perfect for all levels.

This 5-week course is designed for educators, artists, students, carers, parents, and anyone curious about the powerful links between creativity and learning. This programme invites you to explore your own creative potential through hands-on artistic activities and discussions as well as introductions to key pedagogical frameworks

Explore the skills needed to step up your photography and start to gain real control over your camera and style in this 5 week course.

This 5-week course is designed for educators, artists, students, carers, parents, and anyone curious about the powerful links between creativity and learning. This programme invites you to explore your own creative potential through hands-on artistic activities and discussions as well as introductions to key pedagogical frameworks.

Explore portraiture techniques and approaches in this five week course. Learn to translate the 3D model onto the 2D surface through various drawing and painting methods.

Take your first steps in podcasting and radio production with this one day masterclass!

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

Take control of the design of your printed publications with this two-day introduction to Adobe InDesign, the industry standard page layout software.

Thinking about writing your memoir but unsure where to begin? Join Raw Writing for an eight-week course designed to give you a strong foundation and the confidence to find your voice and get it on the page.

This course provides a solid foundation that will help you start writing your novel and gain confidence in finding your voice.

Deepen your understanding of plants and join Exeter Seed Bank for a hands-on workshop all about saving your own seeds for future growing seasons.

Introduction to Shakespeare has one simple aim: to help you experience Shakespeare with confidence, understanding and above all enjoyment.

This steady, beginner-friendly class will focus on simple movement, space to breathe and reset, designed to create a calm pause in the week.

A safe space for women to have lots of fun + laughter, socially connect and the freedom to express yourself in a way that will make you feel great.

Philip Kingslan John from Four of Swords invites you to join him in this practical workshop, exploring invocation, transformation and rhythm.

Grace Plant (Graceless) and Sarah McCourt (Fragments, Monstrous Love Revisited) draw on their autobiographical theatre practice in this practical workshop looking at staging your stories.

Multi-Layered Movement Expressions is a creative dance workshop exploring bodies, landscapes, memories, and texts as interrelated.