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55 courses

- Ceramics Throwing Week - Beginners - Summer School

This is a fun practical beginner’s course, which aims to give you an understanding of throwing on the wheel.

You will have five days working on the wheel to make a set of mugs and/or bowls. This concentrated amount of time gives you the chance to really practice and master this rewarding technique. You will be taught by a professional thrower, who has over 10 years teaching experience. The course includes an evening glazing session later in the term to allow students to return and glaze their work from the summer.

14/07/2025 - Mon - Fri (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £269 - A00066-242501

Absolute beginners Upholstery Class - 1 Day Course

The course is a basic introduction to the joys of upholstery, learning some simple techniques and an understanding of what materials are used in that chair you’re sitting on.

15/09/2025 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252602
03/11/2025 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252603
17/11/2025 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252604
23/02/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252605
09/03/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252606
16/03/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £48 - A00160-252612
13/04/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252607
27/04/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252608
18/05/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £48 - A00160-252613
01/06/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252609
15/06/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252610
20/07/2026 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £47 - A00160-252611

An Introduction to Bicycle Repairs

This course is for those who may know the basics but want to improve their bike maintenance skills. This course will provide hints and tips to look after your bike and to keep it in good running order.

11/06/2025 - Wed (10:00-13:00) - Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton - 4 weeks - £245 - A00038-242502

Block Printing, Painting and Image Transfer for Textiles - Summer School

Learn the basics of one of the oldest types of printmaking in this one day workshop using block printing, free painting , image transfer using the heat transfer presser

11/07/2025 - Fri (10:00-17:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £77 - A00106-242501

Canvas & Cuisine: A Culinary Lunch and Painting Experience with Cinnamon Bazaar

Canvas & Cuisine is a fun, social painting experience paired with delicious food from Cinnamon Bazaar. This session includes two hours of guided painting, where participants learn about a famous artist’s style and recreate a simplified masterpiece using colour mixing, brush techniques, and composition.

After painting, enjoy a 60-minute lunch with a soft drink, making it a perfect blend of creativity, relaxation, and culinary delight for beginners and enthusiasts alike.

04/06/2025 - Wed (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £59 - A00180-242503
18/06/2025 - Wed (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £59 - A00180-242504

Ceramic Handbuilding & Throwing - Intermediate - Summer School

This one week course is designed to introduce you to ceramic decorating techniques on soft clay, leatherhard clay and fired clay .

21/07/2025 - Mon - Fri (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £243 - A00068-242501

Ceramics - An Introduction to Making

This 6-week course has been designed for complete beginners or those with very limited knowledge of clay. It takes learners through studio inductions and teaches hand building fundamental techniques progressing skills through the course. Weeks 1 and 2 introduces the studio and studio processes beginning with press moulding a bowl. Week 3 moves on to slab building; week 4 is pinch pots and coiling; week 5 concentrates on refining and adding decorative texture to your projects with the final week 6 introducing how to glaze and to complete all projects.

The tutor will take you...

03/06/2025 - Tue (09:30-12:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £183 - A00070-242506

Ceramics - Handbuilding, Coiling and Pinching - traditional techniques

On this course you will learn some simple techniques for hand-building a wide range of objects in clay. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and sensitivity in the historic methods of coiling & pinching to create beautiful objects such as bowls, cups and vases. It is suitable for complete beginners as well as more experienced artists and ceramicists.

03/06/2025 - Tue (13:30-16:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £183 - A00069-242506

Ceramics - Make a Bud Vase. CARERS - 1 Day

This is a short taster course to demonstrate to beginners how to create textures in clay, how to use decorative slips and mono-printing techniques. The outcome will be a small object which will be fired and later glazed for you to collect and take home.

Timing of the day session:
• Start of session 10.00
• Basic induction of the studio, health & safety, cleaning up etc
• Overview of what is clay and the different states of clay. Purchase of clay for students: Fleck 2kg at £9
• Demonstrations on slabs of clay into mono printing, textures, sgraffito,...

09/06/2025 - Mon (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £86 - A00171-242501

Ceramics Handbuilding and Throwing Intermediate

Overview: A course for those who can already throw on the potters wheel. A chance to work towards a higher standard, practice new forms in and play with new ideas. Not a course for beginners.

07/06/2025 - Sat (14:00-17:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £183 - A00138-242506

Ceramics Handbuilding Workshop

This is a mixed level course welcoming complete beginners to accomplished ceramicists. Beginners will be taken through the main methods of handbuilding and glazing, spending a few weeks on each method.

There will be time at the end of the course to consolidate learning (by making new work using the skills learned), as well as learning a few specific techniques which can be used to make and decorate various vessels.

More accomplished learners will be given a theme for the term and their responses will be discussed individually. Inspiration using Pinterest, Google images...

03/06/2025 - Tue (18:30-21:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £188 - A00078-242503

Ceramics Throwing Intermediate - Summer School

A course for those with experience of throwing on the wheel who wish to improve and enjoy
five days of throwing. The course is right for you if you can centre, keep the clay on centre to
make a vessel and have learned how to turn away excess clay. The course is also there to stretch
and inspire you to make new forms whatever your level.

28/07/2025 - Mon - Fri (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £248 - C00284-242501

Clothesmaking for Beginners (Hillcroft)

Ever felt like you cannot find the clothes you would like to wear in the shops? This 6-week beginner?s sewing course is the first step in creating your own clothing, textile products and accessories. You will be taught the skills to start making simple items such as a Tote bag, a small zipper bag and a simple top.

The course begins with understanding the sewing machine, its parts, and functions, and then moving on to learn how to sew straight seams, zig zag stitch, and how to attach a zip. After this course you will be able to use a sewing machine, understand how to construct...

02/06/2025 - Mon (13:00-16:00) - Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton - 6 weeks - £188 - A00121-242506

Creative Collage

On this short course you will start to explore how adaptable Collage can be as a medium and how many other media can be included in its creation - such as, painting, printing and drawing too.
During this 5 Week course, you will learn about ways to combine a variety of Mixed Media with Collage techniques, stretching the idea of what collage can do - seeing what is possible. You will be encouraged to create imagery inspired by provided themes and your own themes too.
You will explore using found images, drawing, painting, printed imagery and hand painted papers . You will be...

07/06/2025 - Sat (10:00-13:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 5 weeks - £150 - A00033-242503

Curating, Editing and Exhibiting Photographs

This course is for anyone wishing to gain better skills to exhibit their photographs, you may be a photographer, freelancer or working within photo journalism.

This course teaches you the three stages to best show off your photographs. First, selection, editing and visual story telling. Second, the best specialist paper and framing technique to use for maximum impact. Finally, where and how to exhibit, whether this be a blank wall at home, local public space, or exhibition. Your photographs are original, and this course will encourage you to premiere them powerfully.

09/06/2025 - Mon (13:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 5 weeks - £151 - C02806-242501

Digital Filmmaking - Introduction

This intensive course across two Saturdays will aim to provide you with the practical and theoretical knowledge of all aspects of filmmaking from shooting to editing. You will be taught how to make a short narrative, documentary or experimental video using a DSLR camera, your smartphone or any other video camera you have access to and Adobe Premiere Pro for editing.

07/06/2025 - Sat (10:00-17:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 2 weeks - £131/FREE - C02945-242503

Drawing and Painting for Textile Design

This workshop is designed for learners of all levels, from beginners to advanced students, focusing on the theme of flowers. Participants will learn to observe and draw flowers by examining shape, perspective, shadows, tone, pattern, and depth. The course emphasises dissecting and identifying the multiple layers within a single flower and drawing it from various angles.

Each stage builds towards creating a series of strong images suitable for textile design, which will be further developed through colour studies and abstract interpretations. The workshop is entirely paper-based,...

06/06/2025 - Fri (13:30-16:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £194 - A00016-242506

Figurative Sculpture Summer School

This course is intended to provide an opportunity for artists/makers to experiment with working in a variety of clays. Using a range of techniques and approaches we will explore the qualities of this basic sculptural medium and find out how best it can incorporated into our individual creative practices. It is suitable for complete beginners or those who have experience in other creative fields, particularly 2D practices such as printmaking, drawing and painting. We will look at ways to translate work from those disciplines into tactile, tangible forms as well as utilising the medium as a...

21/07/2025 - Mon - Fri (10:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £233 - A00137-242502

History of Art - Women Artists

There were a significant number of highly talented female artists active in Europe (and, later, in America) during the 15th to 19th centuries, so why is their work not more famous? This art history course investigates and redresses this gender inequality. On this course we will examine a group of immensely talented painters who won enormous international acclaim in their day, and included founder members of the Royal Academy and hugely sought-after portrait painters. We will look at highly esteemed artists who worked at the major European royal courts, others who were some of the greatest...

05/06/2025 - Thu (17:00-19:00) - Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton - 6 weeks - £122 - C03111-242503

Interior Design - Intermediate

Following on from Interior Design - Introduction, this shorter course offers the opportunity to work through your own interior design project with the support of your tutor, putting into practice the techniques and knowledge you have gained on the prevous introductory course.

If you do not have a project the tutor will set one adapted to your area of interest.

05/06/2025 - Thu (18:00-21:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £178/FREE - A00141-242502

Introduction to Bookbinding

This course will introduce students to the skills involved in binding books by hand. During the course students will get an insight into materials and will explore different ways to bind books, pamphlets and journals.

Through demonstrations and practical activities, students will be able to develop a deeper knowledge of bookbinding and produce a series of books including single and multi-section books, soft cover, hard cover books and Japanese style books.

05/06/2025 - Thu (10:00-13:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 5 weeks - £161 - A00056-242506

Introduction to Portrait Sculpture

This course will enable learners to make a half life-size portrait in clay from the life model. We will be going through the process of identifying key anatomical points from the subject and transferring these onto the armature. Further development will be made through direct observation incorporating anatomical references and applying this to the work in progress.
Over the weeks we will complete a portrait bust which can then be hollowed, fired and developed in terms of finish and presentation. There will be additional sessions without the model where we will have the opportunity to...

06/06/2025 - Fri (13:30-16:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £167 - A00163-242503

Introduction to Sewing & Clothesmaking

This Course is a 5/6-week block of 3 hour introductory lessons for beginners new to sewing and clothesmaking. You will be shown how to thread up and use the sewing machine and work on the group projects in each course.

There are 2 different 6 week courses available each term -

Part 1 - Making a cushion cover and an A line skirt

Part 2 - Making a tote bag and a simple top

You do not need to take these courses in order and can join either as the starting point. Completing both will help progress your clothes making knowledge and skills before moving on to an...

02/06/2025 - Mon (18:30-21:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £188 - A00127-242505

Jewellery - Absolute Beginners

This hands-on, beginner-friendly embroidery class introduces you to the basics of embroidery using an embroidery hoop.

In just two hours, you will learn essential stitches, how to set up your hoop, and create a simple design to take home.If you would like to enrol on an eligible course as a Carer then please visit reception at either Parkshot or Hillcroft where one of our staff will be able to assist you. If you would like to enrol on an eligible course as a Carer then please visit reception at either Parkshot or Hillcroft where one of our staff will be able to assist you.

06/06/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242504
13/06/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242505
20/06/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242506
27/06/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242507
04/07/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242508
11/07/2025 - Mon (14:00-16:00) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 1 weeks - £22 - A00169-242509

Jewellery - Studio for Makers

This workshop is focussed on independent learning and is designed for learners at intermediate level, to continue to develop their technical and creative skills in jewellery independently. The session is untutored however, guidance and support will be provided by a qualified technician.

09/06/2025 - Mon (09:30-13:30) - Parkshot Campus, Richmond - 6 weeks - £189 - A00139-242503

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