Collection: Short Courses

Learn to trust your eye and hand to capture the model’s dynamic movements and poses through gestural mark making as you draw the figure from life. Explore the fundamental techniques for life drawing with charcoal, graphite, ink and brushes.

Ignite your understanding and enjoyment of watercolour drawing and painting by learning traditional methods and contemporary mark-making techniques. Learn to paint the colours of changing light and to capture its beauty with transparent watercolour painting methods, both in the studio and at outdoor locations.

An exciting new workshop designed for entry-level students to nurture creativity through various aspects of drawing, encouraging skills development and exploration in a supportive, friendly, studio environment

Learn fundamental welding skills and complete small-scale welded steel sculptures. With demonstrations and techniques for using arc and MIG welders and oxyacetylene to cut, shape and bend steel, as well as ways to grind steel and use surface treatments suited to steel.

Learn to draw forms and structures of the human head, facial features, body dynamics and discover the connection between the ‘character’ and the ‘face’. Using pencil, charcoal, ink, wash and collage, to make quick sketches and sustained drawings from plaster casts, live models and a self-portrait.

Learn fundamental welding skills and complete small-scale welded steel sculptures. With demonstrations and techniques for using arc and MIG welders and oxyacetylene to cut, shape and bend steel, as well as ways to grind steel and use surface treatments suited to steel.

Learn to draw forms and structures of the human head, facial features, body dynamics and discover the connection between the ‘character’ and the ‘face’. Using pencil, charcoal, ink, wash and collage, to make quick sketches and sustained drawings from plaster casts, live models and a self-portrait.

Become inspired by the art of Rene Magritte, whose illusionary paintings connect the poetic expression of ordinary subjects into mythical realms. Complete a series of studies in different mediums and develop at least one sustained painting informed by Magritte’s work, exploring your own imaginative expressions. 

Develop your ceramic practice with handbuilding techniques in clay. Explore slab construction, coiling methods and surface treatments with coloured slips to create original sculptural forms.

Learn the skills required to reproduce the same form on the potter’s wheel, over and over again. Discover how to throw clay and use the wheel efficiently to ensure consistency across forms and develop your own visual language of fluidity on the wheel.

Learn to paint expressively with an individual approach while increasing your knowledge and understanding of the importance of colour, composition and form. Using acrylic or oil paint, students will learn how to mix and experiment with colour and will be encouraged to paint quickly and loosely and to develop expressive brushwork.

Do you want to learn practical drawing techniques and encourage your creativity to emerge in a supportive studio environment? Discover how to see and draw with proportion and perspective, and how to work from small studies to larger, sustained drawings.

Learn the fundamental principles of abstract painting and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane. Tonee Messiah introduces painting techniques from modernist abstraction to the present day and shows how painters approach the translation of subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool and emotive agent.

This popular course combines the fundamentals of painting with an emphasis on creating original artworks from real life subjects. Enjoy taking chances and moving out of your comfort zone as you gain confidence in your art practice!

Learn to see beyond the bewildering details of your subject to gather the colour information you need to get your painting off to a great start! 

Discover how to think of colour in a way that enables you to mix the exact colour that you want confidently and directly, every time. The course assumes no prior knowledge and has given great results with students from beginner to advanced levels.

Learn the fine art of copper plate etching, a medium both steeped in tradition and one that allows for exciting approaches to contemporary art making. Discover the wonderful array of marks, tones and working processes that are possible in this alluring and engaging art form.