This course is suitable for beginners and experinced learners who wish to learn the basic skills for landscape drawing and painting including measuring, perspective and drawing techniques. Move on to experiment with ink, collage and acrylic paint to develop wonderful, colourful paintings and develop personal projects. You can work from the view from the window, images of landscape, or bring an A4 picture of a special place. With artist and lecturer Alison Kusner

This informal and supportive class is an opportunity to work with a life model with the tuition and support of an experienced tutor. This course is suitable for beginners who wish to learn the basics of life drawing and how to experiment with different drawing techniques using with pastels. There will be an introduction with a warm-up of brief poses and then one or two sustained poses for the rest of the session. You can follow activities set by the tutor or use the opportunity to work independently from the model.

This informal and supportive class is an opportunity to work with a life model with the tuition and support of an experienced tutor. There will be an introduction to each session with a warm-up of brief poses and then one or two sustained poses for the rest of the session. You can follow activities set by the tutor or use the opportunity to work independently from the model.

This course will introduce you to the essentials of oil painting and support you to develop your technique. Topics covered will include how to organise your palette, control colour mixing and blending, and what mediums to use to alter the handling qualities of the paint. You will learn the different terms used in oil painting techniques such as glazing and impasto, and will develop paintings either from observation, through abstraction or from imagination.