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The course aims to provide a wide range of drawing and painting approaches towards landscapes for novices, intermediates and experts alike.
Painting a landscape setting, whether is rural, suburban or urban is a very rich experience enabling you to understand your surroundings better and building a deeper connection with your environment. It also improves your drawing skills very quickly.

We will work at local urban sites and landscapes around Richmond and London, if the weather allows. Thereby you will explore your environment through making location drawings and colour...

This course is for those people who are looking to gain more confidence in their skills and competencies to move towards future paid employment or to contribute to their community whilst sharing a passion or expertise.

This course gives you an opportunity to dive deeper into the key aspects of volunteering.

This course will enable you to experiment with a variety of water-based mediums, exploring different approaches to both drawing and painting. Subjects and styles will be investigated to stimulate your ideas as well as discussions on artists whose work may relate to particular projects. You will be encouraged to develop a personal approach to making art that is both creative, informed and imaginative.

This course will guide you through a series of practical watercolour techniques and exercises to give you a good grounding in this versatile medium.

Most jewellery casting today uses a variation on the lost wax method developed in ancient Egypt.

This Course will teach you how to model/carve and mould wax. The wax will then be cast into silver using the ‘Lost wax casting process’

During the day you will have a chance to cast silver using ‘Cuttlefish’ and ‘sand casting’. These cast elements could then be used on their own, or be used as an element on another piece of jewellery. (this can be discussed on day)

In this short course you will learn how to turn on your creative brain and find ideas for stories, to evaluate and develop them. You?ll discover structuring techniques, look at voice, language and use of setting. By the end you will have planned a story and started to write it.

This second course in the WordPress series focuses on turning a blog into a fully fledged website. This course will help you create a cost effective website for business or personal use. No existing web design knowledge is required.

WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, powering over 60 million websites worldwide. A "website in a box", it can be customised for almost any purpose through a wide variety of plugins and templates to create e-commerce sites, online galleries and much more.

WordPress is "open source" software, which means it is...

This course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to design and make original items of furniture. You will be given demonstrations on woodworking techniques and guidance on your own unique project.

This two day course is suitable for those who are undecided about a career in Adult Care and want to find out more about the work and what is involved in caring for adults either in residential or domiciliary care.

Very short fiction has come into its own in the age of the internet. Flash fiction is a wonderful art form, as well as being many writers? first foray into publication.
You will explore how to find ideas, to build a picture and create the all-important ending for your own mini-story. By the end of the day you will have written the first draft of a 500 word story.

Do you have a story to tell? Do you want to explore your own personal narrative? Perhaps you want to narrate your own life experiences, record family history or explore self awareness through writing.

You will learn basic steps leading to classical yoga postures. You can expect to enhance your flexibility, co-ordination and strength. You will improve your breathing through breath awareness and will learn relaxation techniques to promote and encourage inner harmony.