Painting & Drawing

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 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.

This course offers participants a creative journey to transform personal stories and life experiences into a unique textile artwork. Participants will be hand stitching, using fabric collage, embroidery, as well as personal scraps and printed photographs to craft a meaningful object to treasure.

Go on an art adventure and get creative in this fun family session. Explore both outdoors and in the studio working with a range of drawing and painting materials and techniques.

This course explores various techniques and materials to express the colours, shapes, and textures inspired by garden landscapes. Participants will experiment with bold brush strokes and layered compositions. Suitable for beginners and those wishing to develop a more abstract painting style.

Be inspired by the plants flowers and vegetables we come across in our everyday lives and learn how to draw and paint them and explore techniques for adding colour to your illustrations.

This month in Art and Ideas, the course explores Latin American and Latinx queer artists using various artforms to address sexuality, gender, and cultural identity. Students will learn how these artists challenge norms and celebrate diversity through innovative works in different media.

This workshop, led by artist Annabelle Hogben, focuses on using sketchbooks and journals as tools for creative exploration and idea development. Participants are invited to bring their own sketchbooks to engage in various processes and methodologies that support art research and investigation.

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

Spend the day immersed in the traditional craft of hand-mulled watercolour paint. This approachable and welcoming workshop led by Ferrous and Bone (previously Art Scribe). is designed for all levels, whether you’re a practising artist or simply curious to try something new.

Working from a still life set up in the studio as a starting point we will abstract natural forms, consider exciting colour combinations and add collage to create new and vibrant artwork.