Short courses
Portrait with Flowers using Mixed Media Collage and Monoprinting.
with Neil Drury
A two-day portrait workshop with a difference. Using printed collage papers and a variety of mixed media, students will work from a model and still-life to produce expressive, individual works.
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Wednesday,Thursday 10:00 to 16:00
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16th July to 17th July '25
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£225
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Neil Drury
Eggs! Still-Life Painting in Oils and Acrylics
with Lucy Burton
This workshop is about so much more than just painting an egg…it’s about an arrangement of shapes, of colour relationships and subtle shifts in colour and tone. We will discuss compositional ideas and guidelines, how to mix colours accurately and how to use your ‘artistic licence’ to inject colour into the shadows.
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Tuesday 10:00 to 16:00
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15th July '25
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£105
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Lucy Burton
Raku (Two-day pottery workshop)
with Rose Wallace/Graham Hudson
Raku is a pottery firing process developed in 16th century Japan for the Japanese tea ceremony. The word raku translates loosely as enjoyment, happiness or comfort. The process involves ceramic pieces being glazed then fired in an outside kiln to a temperature of approximately 1000 degrees. Raku is a pottery firing process developed in 16th century Japan for the Japanese tea ceremony. The word raku translates loosely as enjoyment, happiness or comfort. The process involves ceramic pieces being glazed then fired in an outside kiln to a temperature of approximately 1000 degrees.
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Tuesday 10:00 to 16:00
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15th July to 21st July '25
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£218
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Rose Wallace/Graham Hudson
The Tissue Transfer Technique - A Decorative Skills Pottery Course
with Rose Wallace
Using thrown and hand-built forms such as bowls, beakers, pots and plates we will use traditional transfer skills and slip techniques to decorate surfaces and bring a narrative to your work.
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Wednesday,Thursday 10:00 to 16:00
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16th July to 17th July '25
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£210
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Rose Wallace
The Value of Colour: Mixing paints with meaning
with Claire Venables
This course for oil painters combines practical mixing techniques with a deeper exploration of how we perceive colour.
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Monday,Tuesday 10:00 to 16:00
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21st July to 22nd July '25
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£175
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Claire Venables
Outdoor Painting at Radley Lakes
with Susan Neale
Paint in an atmospheric summer landscape using watercolours. This one-day workshop will feature painting en plein air at Radley Lakes with plenty of practical help, advice and tutor demonstrations.
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10:00 to 16:00
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15th July '25
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£95
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Susan Neale
What a Relief! (Two-day sculpture workshop)
with Wilbur Heynes
There are few sculptural styles where the relationship between 2D and 3D become more evident than relief sculpture. During this two-day course students will learn about the range from high relief to low relief and discover that less very often is more.
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Tuesday,Friday 10:00 to 16:00
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18th July '25
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£254
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Wilbur Heynes