Art, Design & Media

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.

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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.

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...