Courses & Workshops

Explore the essential rules of composition in art and photography in this fun interactive workshop.

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

Work from a live model and explore the principles of life drawing guided by an experienced tutor. Perfect for beginners or those wishing to improve their skills. All basic materials supplied.

From concept to content, learn the skills needed to create compelling videos for your small business.

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

Explore the fundamentals of capturing the human form. Guided by an experienced tutor, you’ll learn techniques for observing and translating a live model into clay sculptures. All Materials provided.

In this 2 hour workshop you’ll be given an introduction to hand embroidery and enjoy a tasty cocktail (or mocktail) of choice from the Mermaid.

Get up close to a replica skeleton and draw the bare bones of the human body. This is a great way to develop your observational drawing skills as well as creating some frighteningly good portraits of our resident Skelly!

Learn some techniques for sculpting in clay and create a character inspired by legendary creatures, gargoyles, folk tales and your own imagination.

Immerse yourself in natural colour with Sophie Holt from PIGMENT Organic Dyes CIC. This workshop is perfect for anyone interested in sustainable fashion, textiles, natural dyeing, or simply looking for a creative and relaxing afternoon using natural materials.Create your own organic, bundle-dyed tote bag as well as a set of 8 beautiful organic cotton swatches to take home.

Join us for a hauntingly fun spooky zine making workshop and craft eerie, atmospheric mini magazines perfect for Halloween or any other ghostly occasion.

Little Feet, Big Beats: Halloween Special is a magical, movement-filled experience for children and their parent, grandparent or carer to enjoy together.

A weekly confidence-building photography course for beginners.

This series of five weekly workshops will translate the stories from your own life into a textile book a unique piece of narrative artwork.

Learn to edit, retouch and apply special effects to images in this two day introduction to Adobe Software, the professional image manipulation software.

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

In this workshop you’ll learn some basic bookbinding techniques whilst making a hardcover sketchbook /notebook, which is then yours to keep and take home. Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Learn how to organise, edit and share your photography with Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Explore collage as a creative tool, experiment with layering, typography, and juxtaposition, focusing on the theme of nature and the environment or your own subject of interest. Develop your composition and storytelling skills in a supportive setting and leave inspired and energized to continue your collage journey. Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Use 2D cut out animation to bring to life your very own digital Christmas card!

Explore the world of audio post production for film and documentary.