Discover our courses
Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.
If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813.
Abstract Painting
Discover abstract painting through gesture, mark-making, and emotional colour. Create dynamic compositions and finish with your own expressive oil painting on canvas!
Acrylics Painting Now
This course is ideal for those people new to acrylics and those with some experience. It will cover the basic tenets of acrylics; the materiality of the paint, the support (board, canvas, paper or other) and the tools required to create different effects.
Advanced Botanical Drawing and Illustration
Are you ready to elevate your botanical drawing skills? This advanced course is perfect for those who want to deepen their practice and explore complex techniques. Building on foundational skills, you'll refine your ability to capture intricate plant details with greater accuracy and artistic expression.
Art School Experience
Is immersing yourself in the art school way of life something you’ve dreamed about? If so, join this intensive course and start developing your personal approach to creating art.
Botanical Drawing and Illustration for Beginners
Do you have an interest in the natural world either as a result of hobbies (gardening, horticulture or painting) or through employment (landscape designers, conservationists and botanists)? This course will develop your knowledge and skills in the field of botanical art and illustration.
Drawing for Beginners
This course is an energetic exploration of the ways in which people use drawing and mark making to analyse and respond to physical (and metaphysical) spaces. It’s aimed at anyone who is new to drawing or people with experience looking for a challenge.
Landscape Painting
Discover the art of landscape painting! Learn composition, colour techniques, and expressive mark-making with outdoor and studio sessions. Perfect for enhancing your skills!
Oil Painting
From beginners eager to explore this traditional medium, to experienced painters seeking to push the boundaries of their practice; whatever your experience you’ll learn the principles of oil painting and how to create different effects using the ‘alla prima’ method of painting wet paint into wet paint.
Painting Now
This course is the ideal opportunity to explore traditional and modern approaches to painting in watercolour, gouache, acrylic and ink. You’ll have lots of opportunities to experiment with a range of techniques using each of these mediums. The course is aimed at the adventurous beginner and those with more experience as it will build on the basics of painting: the qualities of paint, how to use paint in an effective way and how to plan and create original compositions in your own style.
Portraiture Painting
Master vibrant oil painting techniques, create lifelike skin tones, and capture your subject’s essence with expressive brushwork in just three days.
Alternative Painting and Unusual Media
Shake up your art practice and explore new ways of painting with this creative, hands-on short course. You’ll experiment with everyday materials, natural media and even household items to make bold, inventive artworks. Led by artist and BBC mentor Diana Ali, this course encourages you to break the rules, explore abstraction and find your unique visual voice