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The perfect course for those wanting to improve their technical drawing skills in every aspect.
Tutor : Felicity Matten
Our Pottery for beginners course offers a relaxing, creative experience where learners explore clay techniques such as pinching, coiling, slab-building, and wheel throwing, while mastering surface decoration and glazing to create unique ceramic pieces.
Tutor : Ewa Pandera
This dressmaking course in Cambridge is a hands-on course for beginners and experienced sewists alike, teaching essential skills such as pattern selection, garment assembly, fitting, and professional finishing techniques.
Tutor : Sally Tilley
Join our Carpentry for Beginners course which teaches essential woodworking skills, including how to safely use and maintain hand tools while mastering key joinery techniques such as Half Lap, Mortice and Tenon, Dove Tail, T Halving, Bridle, and Dowel joints.
Tutor : Domenico Petrelli
This daytime course will provide instruction and support on how to compose and paint in watercolours.
Tutor : Clive Riggs
A course centered around learning the basics of home DIY, and the beginnings of joinery.
Tutor : Imogen Davies
Drawing Skills is a practical and exploratory course for all levels, focusing on mark-making, tone, shape, colour, and composition to help learners develop confidence, creativity, and a deeper understanding of visual expression.
East Asian Painting is a creative course for all levels, introducing traditional Chinese and Japanese watercolour techniques, calligraphy-inspired brushwork, and classic subjects such as bamboo, orchids, and plum blossom in a relaxed, supportive environment.
Tutor : Peter Cavaciuti
Creative Writing for Beginners is a face to face course designed for those new to storytelling, offering practical exercises in fiction, memoir, and poetry to build confidence, explore language, and develop essential writing skills in a supportive environment.
Tutor : Ruth Wade
This course is aimed at anyone new to patchwork and quilting and those who wish to improve their skills and work on a personal project.
Tutor : Marion Curtis
On this short course, start your journey in carving on stone. Choose to carve letters or numbers.
Tutor : Emi Gordon
Upcycle your furniture and bring new life to an old favourite with this Upholstery course!
Tutor : Hong Tan
Learn more about European painting between 1715 - 1886.
Tutor : Lisa Fretwell
This Twilight Dressmaking course offers learners the opportunity to access learning in the late afternoon, giving them the evening free!
Tutor : Linda Couch
This dressmaking course is for beginners to help them learn the essentials and build confidence.
Tutor : Louise Barry
Learn more about European painting between 1715-1886.
Acquire drawing and painting skills and knowledge on this weekly course.
Tutor : David Bennison
This course will introduce you to beginners pattern cutting in women’s wear, using block pattern manipulation techniques.
Learn to upholster a small piece of your own furniture, using modern or traditional methods.
Tutor : Lisa Cramp
Creative Writing for Improvers is an intermediate-level course designed to help writers enhance their storytelling skills through practical techniques, guided projects, and expert feedback.
Learn the art of calligraphy in this practical, creative course for all levels. Master historical scripts using broad-edged nibs, explore layout and design, and create beautiful projects like cards and quotations. Gain skills in colour use and work towards optional CLAS certificates.
Tutor : Liz Barrow
Start your oil painting journey with this beginner-friendly course. Learn essential skills in colour theory, composition, and application techniques using oil or acrylic paints. Build confidence, explore traditional and contemporary styles, and progress at your own pace.
This course takes place on 10th October and 14th November.Learn to upholster a small piece of your own furniture, using modern or traditional methods.
Learn over three Saturdays! A course centered around working with timber. You will be learning and practicing the following joints: Half Lap, Mortice and Tenon, Dove Tail, T Halving, Bridal and Dowel Joint.
Make a hand-made Christmas Decoration
One this day school cover practical aspects of drawing, mark making and creating the illusion of 3 Dimensions.
Start the countdown to the festive season in style this year with your own fresh, long lasting festive ring.
Tutor : Helen Allen
Creative Writing for Beginners is an 8-week face to face course designed for those new to storytelling, offering practical exercises in fiction, memoir, and poetry to build confidence, explore language, and develop essential writing skills in a supportive environment.
Drawing skills can be done for pleasure, relaxation or with a more defined purpose. The course will explore what drawing is, what it can be for and why we do it. We will cover practical aspects of drawing mark making, creating the illusion of 3 Dimensions, the use of pattern and design and the formal arrangement of tone and shape to create an image. We will explore colour, different media, the theoretical side of drawing and how to look, examine and see what is actually there.
East Asian Painting is a creative course for all levels, introducing traditional Chinese and Japanese watercolour techniques, calligraphy-inspired brushwork, and classic subjects such as bamboo, orchids, and plum blossom in a relaxed, supportive environment
This course continues from the first term in September
A DIY course centred on working with timber. You will have the opportunity to learn and practice
Explore the colour and beauty of European Art.
Improve your current skills with our Intermediate Drawing course. Learn 3-point perspective, rotation, and complex shapes while building on your knowledge of colour theory and composition. Create independent artwork and refine your drawing techniques.
Creative Writing for Improvers is an 8-week intermediate-level course designed to help writers enhance their storytelling skills through practical techniques, guided projects, and expert feedback.
This course takes place on 23rd January, 13th February and 13th March.
The course is designed to enable you to explore the fundamentals of the art of still life.
Join this relaxed, informative, creative candle making course!
Tutor : Miller and Ward
Make a beautiful, unique stained glass panel to take home.
Join a hands-on 2.5-hour course exploring the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Learn how Ikebana reflects nature and the seasons, with a focus on early summer designs.
Tutor : Yukiko Isono
Have you ever wondered about East Asian painting and wanted to learn more? This one day course is ideal for you.
A morning creating a wonderful, sustainable floral arrangement for the home to take away and enjoy.
All are welcome to this creative workshop – seasoned calligraphy students and beginners alike.
Brush up on many of the frequently used dressmaking techniques
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