- Sep 23, 2024
- 12 min read
As we drift into Autumn, one can become a little lethargic and, dare I say, dull. We can't have that; we must fight those cobwebs and keep our minds, hearts and hands busy. So, we have gathered together some excellent workshops that will inspire and delight.
Inspired by the garden, plants and tools, or other objects found within it, enjoy a weekend painting a small still life arrangement in oils, or with acrylics if you prefer. Under professional tuition from Colin Pethick, with clear step-by-step demonstration, you will be able to capture some of the many textures and colours of Rosemoor. You will explore colour values and colour theory, tonal awareness, still life composition and general draughtsmanship with paint. By the end of the two day course, you will have developed and hopefully completed a colourful and atmospheric still life painting to be proud of.
Price: £156.70 Per Person
Introduction To Art History, Online Course, 24th September – 10th December, (12 Weeks) 10.30 am – 1 pm, V&A Academy
This course will introduce Western Art from the Classical World to the Contemporary World. They will explore the many ways Art History helps us to unravel those different movements and styles. You will understand how artists have shaped our world. They will explore how techniques changed, how literature and music impacted their artists’ lives and work, and how women artists made an increasingly important contribution to the art world. Looking at architecture, sculpture, paintings, metalwork, ivory carving, photographs, drawings, woodcuts, lithographs, and objects they will explore hundreds of years of Western art and get to know the men and women who made it.
Price: £250 Per Person
A introductory four week course exploring the essentials of glaze chemistry and how to develop glazes using wood ash. The course will run through every aspect of working with ash and it’s history and you will have developed your very own ash glaze and variants with a deeper understanding of how glaze development works! The course will also cover using ash glazes in oxidation, i.e. for electric kilns, as well as ideas in regards to reducing firing and lowering the melting temperature of your glaze. You’ll be looking at the new re-print of Phil Rogers seminal book on ash glazes as well as the work of Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie.
Price: £250 Per Person
Planning Ahead For Veg In Autumn And Winter, 27th September, 10 am - 4 pm, RHS Garden Harlow Carr, Crag Lane, Harrogate
Plan ahead for spring planting. Make the most of your vegetable plot by learning how to grow vegetables for harvesting throughout winter and spring. In an illustrated talk, you will be introduced to a range of hardy crops for growing in open ground, under cloches or in the greenhouse. This workshop will be repeated earlier in the season next year.
Price: £69.85 Per Person
Upholstery Leisure Weekend, 28th - 29th September, 10 am - 4 pm, Margate Design Collective, 151 Northdown Road, Margate
Bring your own project to our weekend upholstery leisure course. You will work at your own pace in a relaxed and friendly learning environment, developing a whole range of upholstery skills and gaining a great insight to this amazing trade. This course is suitable for beginners or those with previous upholstery experience. They encourage beginners to start with a dining chair, footstool, cushion or something small, or if you are working on something at home and are stuck, bring it along.
Price: £215 Per Person
Darning Workshop With Sewing Smith, 4th October, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, Ray Stitch, 66 Essex Road, Islington, London, N1 8LR
Spend a few slow stitching hours with professional darner and mender @_sewingsmith_. Learn how to celebrate your holes beautifully and create highly decorative and colourful darns to be proud of.
All tools and materials are provided. No prior sewing experience is necessary. You will work on samplers in the class and printed materials will be supplied. Refreshments will be close to hand - just relax and absorb the gentle art of hand stitching.
Price: £60 Per Person
A half-day Compo course is available for those who have already completed our gilding course. This is an intensive half day course for those who have already completed our 3 day gilding course. You will learn how to make composition, take casts and make moulds so you will be able to replace and gild missing sections on ornate frames.
Price: £120 Per Person
Drop In And Draw, 4th October, 6 - 8 pm, Royal Academy, Collection Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1J 0PE
Drop in on the first Friday night of the month for an evening of free drawing. Pick up a pencil and get creative at this free drawing evening inspired by our In the Eye of the Storm exhibition. The drop-in session will be led by artists Veronika Prykhodko and Vitaliia Fedorova who can give you tips and tricks for improving your drawing. All abilities are welcome. You will be provided with basic drawing materials but feel free to bring your own dry materials too. Due to high demand capacity may be limited. Queuing is likely, and we allocate spaces on a first-come, first-served basis.
Free
Blacksmithing – Candlesticks And Candle Holders, 4th - 6th October, West Dean - The Edward James Foundation, West Dean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QZ
You will explore the making of candle holders and candlesticks in metal. The course will be structured through guided demonstration and example, followed by practice and application. Different approaches and ideas will be explored and shown, leading to a finished object. The technical focus will be on those metalwork techniques that lend themselves to making domestic-scale objects. A range of techniques will be demonstrated by the tutor and then practised individually, such as curving, spiralling, cutting, bending, tapering and shaping, using a variety of tools and methods to form the metal. By the end of the course, you should be able to understand, practise, and use metal techniques and should feel more confident about how these techniques are applied to creative metalwork. You should be able to confidently undertake further explorations of this fascinating and rewarding craft.
Price: £379 Per Person
Screenprinting has been used commercially since the 1920s. However, it began to be widely popularised as an art form from the 1950s onwards by artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Since then, artists have gone on to push the boundaries of what the process can achieve, and these days, we can see a huge range of stylistic work, from photographs to graphic illustration, expressive mark-making, and even delicate hand-drawn-like images.
This course will be a structured introduction to basic screenprinting processes, giving you the chance to experiment with different multicoloured techniques (monoprints, hand-drawn acetates, paper stencils, and photo-stencils).
Price: £243 Per Person
Experimental Etching Transfer Techniques, 12th October, 10 am - 5 pm, Artichoke Print Workshop, 245a Coldharbour Lane, G5 Ground Floor Unit, Coldharbour Works, London, SW9 8RR
Experimental etching transfer techniques with Alice Valentina Biga. If the work of Peter Freeth R.A. has ever inspired you then this is the course for you. A chance to experiment with mark making, both hand-drawn and digitally produced, via simple photocopies. During this course, you will learn how to achieve multiple tones of aquatint using a sole etching bath. They will be experimenting with a variety of techniques on how to transfer and or how to create an image onto a metal plate. They will be using oil-based etching ink, photocopies and photocopy paper as acid-resistant. The plate will be etched and printed. There will be time to create two different A5 plates with the option of combining more than one technique on one of the plates.
Price: £110 Per Person
As an artist, Francis Bacon preferred not to work from life but rather from photographs of his friends and acquaintances and photographs in books, magazines, and newspapers. In this artist-led practical art workshop, you will learn about this technique to create your own work and understand how beneficial and accessible painting from a two-dimensional source can be. Workshop leader to be announced.
Price: £125 Per Person
Basket Weaving Workshop, 15th October, 10 am - 4 pm, e5 Bakehouse, Arch 395-396, Mentmore Terrace, London, E8 3PH
Join Femke for a relaxed workshop of crafting your small basket from willow grown on our organic farm, Fellow's Farm in Suffolk. Learn how to make a lovely spiralling base and different ways to fill in the sides; the techniques used for this small round gathering basket can be extended to bread bannetons or fruit & bread baskets. The class will be held over the course of the day from 10am - 4pm and will include all material for your basket plus a tasty lunch from the bakehouse.
Price: £110 Per Person
The first three sessions will be focused to the basics of throwing on the wheel, beginning with how to centre and pull a cylinder and moving on to how to stretch the clay into bowls and other complex forms. In the fourth session, students will begin to turn in their work from the previous sessions, and in the final week, each student will be able to glaze their work in a selection of 10 of our house glazes. Expect to keep anywhere between 6-8 pieces, depending on what happens when you are throwing!
Price: £255 Per Person
Whether you are someone with a pile of posters still to be hung or an artist preparing for exhibitions, this is an opportunity to make your own bespoke picture frame, mount your artwork, and assemble all components ready to take home and hang proudly. Over three consecutive evenings, you will be taught to operate traditional picture-framing machinery and tools and practice critical skills transferable to multiple woodworking processes. In this course, you will learn how to cut and join hardwood moulding using guillotines and underpinners alongside hand pinning with a dremel and hammer, sand and finish a raw wood frame using stains or waxes to complement your artwork, cut, clean and handle glass, and safely mount paper-based artwork such as prints, photographs or paintings. Professional picture framer Joe Fergey will run this course.
Price: £220 Per Person
[BYOB EVENT] - Ultimate Pottery Experience, TOKENSTUDIO, London Bridge, 25th October, 1:30 pm, ARCH 76 Druid Street, London
You will enjoy every minute of this pottery session, from the making to the painting. This is an absolutely fun-based pottery session. For those who have or have not done pottery, it is always going to be a brand-new experience. This experience covers all the essential parts you need to create a complete pottery artwork.
Price: £46 Per Person
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Muni X Art'otel - Battersea Power Plant(er), Muni London, 26th October, 11 am - 12:30 pm, Art'otel London Battersea Power Station, 1 Electric Boulevard, Nine Elms, London, SW11 8BJ
Muni and Art'otel have teamed up to offer you a fantastic opportunity to make your own ceramic planters. Aloelujah! If you think your life would succeed without plants, they may just have the perfect workshop for you - during this class, you will be guided by the teacher to make a planter using hand-building techniques. You will also be able to attach surface decorations to them and refine it so it is smooth around the hedges.
Price: £42 Per Person
Blow Your Own Bauble Class, 2nd November, 10 - 11 am , Gather, Unit 4, Submarine Cable Depot, Warspite Road, London, SE18 5NX
Join them for a short, exciting, glassblowing experience suitable for complete beginners. They’ll gather the glass for you, you’ll design and apply colours, and then blow the bauble up. They can’t guarantee it’ll be round, but it’ll be all yours!
Price: £55 Per Person
Taking place over four evenings or a weekend, introduces the basics of woodworking to get you set up to start working on your own projects. If you’re completely new to woodwork, you might want to start with an Introduction to Handtools or Powertools. Skills you will learn: Biscuit Jointing, Tenon and mortise making, Mitres and Dovetail jointing.
Price: £195 Per Person
Sugar lift aquatint is a bold, exciting way to embark on an etching. In this one day course you can learn to paint sugar solution on to a plate, cover it with a variety of grounds then lift, aquatint and etch the painted brush marks before printing the final image. If you have etched before and would like to broaden your practice this is a great technique for developing your plates further.
Price: £81 Per Person
Learn the art of stained glass as you design and create your own stained glass panel. Come and explore the potential of the dynamic and jewel like qualities of stained glass and light, the most alluring features of this ancient art form. This course is designed as an introductory course to the art of stained glass. In order to ensure you receive sufficient experience and technical information, everyone on the course will follow the same programme. You will learn all the techniques required to make a non-representational stained glass panel: either 30cm square or 25 x 40cm.
Price: £540 Per Person
The Artist Out Of Doors, 7th, 14th, 21st November, 3.30 - 5.30 pm, The National Gallery, Online Course
Explore the history of artists painting landscapes outside, from Bellini to Constable to Monet, in this three-week course. In the first week, they will examine how landscape first became an independent subject in the 16th centuries. This second session will focus on the developments of landscape painting in the 17th century, placing a particular focus on the production of the landscapes produced for the new Dutch Republic and the large personal landscapes of Peter Paul Rubens. The final week of the course will examine how landscape painting embraced and was affected by the developments of modernity and industrialisation.
Price: £45 Per Person
This is a beginner’s course for those wishing to discover more about stone carving and making sculpture. It’s an action-packed weekend, which will cover all you need to know, including which stones are used for carving and the techniques to reduce the given rock to the desired form. No experience is needed, it is easier than you think, and there is a method and stone to suit everyone. You just need enthusiasm and a willingness to give it a go.
Price: £313 Per Person
An Introduction To Garden History - 19th Century Picturesque And The Victorians, 11th November, 11 am – 1 pm, RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London
Immerse yourself in garden history with their brand-new introductory course, led by historian and Gardens Trust trustee Francesca Murray. In Part Two of the course they explore gardens from the Victorian era up to the 20th Century, with the help of the RHS Lindley Library collections.
Price: £15 Per Session
Lino Cutting – Block Printed Napkins With Louisa Loakes, 12th November, 10 am - 4 pm, Charleston, Firle, BN8 6LL
This block printing session offers a creative approach to pattern and will provide you with the basic techniques of block printing onto fabric. Taking inspiration from the Bloomsbury artists at Charleston and specifically looking at patterns within the house, you will design and carve your very own block to print a repeat pattern. There will be time in the workshop to explore your block design, twisting and turning it to find your final pattern repeat before printing up a set of table napkins on linen fabric to take away with you.
Price: £160 Per Person
Have a go at throwing your own pots on the wheel. On this one day workshop you’ll try using different types of pottery wheels and will be guided through the ceramic processes including: throwing, coning, lifting a wall and the introduction of tools. At the end of the session you will select your favourite four pieces, which will be fired and glazed, ready for collection three weeks later.
Price: £130 Per Person
Block Printed Lampshades With Molly Mahon, 19th November, 10 am - 3.30 pm, Charleston, Firle, BN8 6LL
Join printmaker Molly Mahon for a one-day workshop and experience the joy of block printing and making your own lampshade. The day-long course will include a private tour of the house, followed by an introduction to block printing by Molly. Using Molly’s carved wooden blocks and her palette of eco-friendly paints you will experiment with colour and pattern – culminating in printing your own 30cm drum lampshade. The price includes all materials, refreshments, and a delicious lunch.
Price: £200 Per Person
Darkroom Printing Taster Session, 23rd November, 10 am - 12:30 pm, The Art House, Drury Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TE
Ready to transform your roll of film into a beautiful hand printed silver gelatin photograph? Get stuck in with their fully equipped darkroom, learning the inner workings of an enlarger and the chemical processes, gaining hands-on experience of printing from your own negatives.
Price: £45 Per Person
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