Week One: July 12th - 16th

Drawing and Painting Innovative Mediums with Mary Treherne
July 12th-13th Monday - Tuesday 10-4pm £ 80
Two days exploring the fascinating technique of wax resist, using candle wax & oil crayons with inks and water-based mediums. We will work from still life, using illustrations/photos to stimulate ideas. Bring paints; crayons the ink will be provided.

Beginners Basic Drawing with Eithne Healy
July 12th-14th Monday- Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
A step by step approach based on projects which explore the possibilities of drawing which will both instruct and excite the imagination. An ideal course for the beginner or those who think they 'can’t draw a straight line'.

Painting the Great Masters with Estelle Lovatt
July 12th -13th Monday- Tuesday 10-4pm £80
Whether you dream of putting a Van Gogh or Monet on your wall, the best way to appreciate and understand a work of art is to make a transcription of it (not necessarily a strict copy). We will focus on the skills of the master, the drawing and painting depth light and shade. Please bring a postcard or copy of the painting you choose.

Life Drawing and Painting with Vincent Milne
July 14th-16th Wednesday - Friday 10-4pm £ 135
The class will start with one hour of quick poses followed by one long pose for three days. Capture the model in a dynamic mode using the quick poses in charcoal, ink or pencil. Paint a long pose and express the shapes of the model with colour and tone, studying the play of light on the form. All media: acrylics, oils, watercolours or pastels.

Painting with Tiles: 'Mosaics' with Jackie Mwanza
July 12th-14th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
The great Moorish and Turkish schools of tile painting have inspired artists down the ages. Here, students will be encouraged to create their own vibrant images by working from observation of a still life using traditional mosaic techniques as well as modern and experimental methods. £10 material fee, payable to tutor.


Week Two: July 19th - 23rd

Toulouse Lautrec Motif with Mary Treherne
July 19-21st Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 135
Toulouse Lautrec’s paintings, with their burlesque dramatic scenes, will be the inspiration in this course with a model. Japanese prints, which had just burst onto the Parisian scene, will be studied in relationship to his work. Oils and acrylics

Life Drawing with Tim Benson
July 22-23rd Thursday –Friday 10-4pm £ 90
A two day course, exploring the anatomy of the body. Day one will feature quick dynamic poses followed by a longer, more sustained pose on day two. All media welcome.

Landscape with Jan Malaszek
July 19th-21st Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
The class will use the glorious landscape and architecture of Kenwood as its subject.
We will be on site at Kenwood making a series of drawings to record the scene which will be developed into paintings in the studio. All media

Botanical Painting Orchids with Watercolours with Helen Allen
July 19th-22nd Monday- Thursday 10-4pm £ 160
The brilliantly patterned, showy flowers and delicate blooms of orchids never fail to delight. We shall explore the structure and make observational and colour notes, draw and paint a specimen whilst learning to record accurately, and capture the essence of the plant. Please bring your own orchid to paint from.

Children’s Pottery 'Beside the Seaside' with Claire Bevacqua
July 20th-23rd Monday - Thursday 10-3pm £ 160 *
Drawing on children’s imaginations, all the sea creatures - starfish, sea shells, and fishes - can be created to make their own special holiday scene. They will be working in groups and individually. There will be an exhibition of their work on the last day.


Week Three: July 26th - 30th

Professional techniques for a figure composition with Desmond Healy
July 26th-28th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £135
We will make drawings, and colour notes from a clothed model. The stress will be on using the model as just the starting point for the work. Imagination and visual memory will be the key elements of building a strong composition for our painting. The studio practice of Cezanne and Diebenkom will be studied.

Impressionist Flowers and Still life with Douglas Druce
July 26th -28th Monday – Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
The ravishing colours of the Impressionists will be studied and used in this unique workshop. There will be two compositions to choose from using summer blooms and still life material. We hope to create the heat and feeling of Provence in oils or acrylics.

Watercolours with Valerie Wiffen
July 29th-30th Thursday - Friday 10-4pm £ 80
Learn how to take full advantage of the luminous jewel- like brilliance of classic watercolour. The course will explain the correct use of materials; colour mixing, including overlays, and how to handle 'wet into wet' work.

Silk Painting with Tony Wigg
July 26th-28th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
Silk painting is very accessible and is a wonderful decorative art in which the painter interacts with the nature of the silk weave to produce dramatic effects and images. We shall produce hand-painted crepe de chine silk squares or scarves using a number of different techniques. £15 materials fee, payable to tutor, includes silk and colours.

Children’s Carnival & Circus Painting with Candida Powell-Williams
July 26th -29th Monday- Thursday 10-3pm £160 *
A fantastic four days enjoying an explosion of colourful painting and drawing.The children will use their imaginations to create the characters, clowns, acrobats, and animals, depicting the atmosphere of circuses and festivals from around the world.


Week Four: August 2nd - 5th

Traditional Portraiture with Douglas Druce
August 2nd-4th Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm £135
The accent in this class will be on keen observation, tones and colour values. Techniques from Rembrandt, through to the Impressionists will be studied, as you investigate the processes that artists have used throughout the centuries. Oil painting, beginners & experienced.

Open Painting with Ake Arnerdal
August 2nd-4th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 120
This class will explore both abstract and representational approaches. You will be encouraged to draw ideas and inspiration from varied sources and to work with a variety of materials. An awareness of 20th century developments in colour, space, form and imagery will be important to each student’s work. The tutor will instruct and support the individual students as they work on their own choice of subject.

Jewellery with Annie Ruthven-Taggart
August 2nd-5th Monday - Thursday 10-4pm £160 (Basic materials £10)
The course is for both beginners and those with expertise. Base metals, such as copper and brass, will be used initially, progressing to silver to produce rings, pendants, cufflinks etc. Techniques covered will be: the shaping, forming of metal, joining, soldering, finishing and texturing. There is an extra charge for silver.

Children’s Painting and Drawing with Leon Platt
August 2nd-5th Monday - Thursday 10-3pm £ 160 *
Come and explore the strange and magical world of the imagination. From the deepest seas to the highest mountains, to the depths of the jungle and the frontiers of space - you will have the chance to create your own landscapes and the strangest creatures that you can imagine! We will also look at some optical illusions, including them in our work.


Week Five: August 9th - 13th

Portraiture with Tim Benson
August 9th -11th Monday –Wednesday 10-4pm £135
This course will explore the exciting landscape of the face. With a bias towards oil painting the course will show students colour mixing techniques, whilst exploring a loose and dynamic approach to portraiture.

Watercolours with Ake Arnerdal
August 9th -11th Monday –Wednesday 10-4pm £120
Catch a mood in watercolours! If the weather allows we will work outside. The focus of the class will be on using this media as a tool for describing a feeling or a mood rather than being illustrative or figurative. The class is suitable for beginners and experienced .

Life drawing with Trudie Stephenson
August 12-13 Thursday- Friday 10-4pm £ 90
Drawing the human form is often a trouble spot for artists due to its complexity. However, the beginner may be assured that there is a formula for drawing the figure.
The course will show how to understand; measurements, proportion, building the figure’s form with light and shade.

Printmaking with Theresa Pateman
August 9th-11th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ 130
This course will explore the many ways in which a print can be produced using the techniques of etching, dry point, collograph and monoprint.

Studying and using colour with Derek Ogbourne
August 12th -13th Thursday-Friday 10-4pm
The basic knowledge of colour is an essential tool of a painter. From the ideas of Itten’s colour wheel to the uses of the primary palette the world of colour will be opened to you. Materials: Gouache - Flame Red, Cobalt Blue, Spectrum Yellow, Black, Permanent White; acrylic brushes; palette.

Children’s Pottery 'Alice in Wonderland' with Kat Kittnarova
August 9th -12th Monday-Thursday 10-3pm £160 *
Alice in Wonderland will be a challenging and exciting subject. The children will draw and paint: the Mad Hatter, Alice -and all the other characters before starting their modelling. The techniques of building in clay will be demonstrated and they will be helped throughout by the tutor and her assistant.


Week Six: August 16th - 20th

Constable’s Landscapes in Hampstead with Vincent Milne
August 16th-18th Monday - Wednesday 10-4pm £ £120
We will work on Hampstead Heath, painting Constable's motifs and in the studio, making drawings and colour notes. Photographs will add to our source material. A opportunity to work out doors for a day, and consolidate your work in the studio.

Life Drawing Any Media with Valerie Wiffen
August 16th-17th Monday – Tuesday 10-4pm £90
This will be an exciting drawing class using, pastels, charcoal, inks, or watercolour. Valerie is an expert is all media - whether you are a beginner or experienced, you will be able to come away with new ideas and insights in expressing the figure.

Portraiture Valerie Wiffen
August 18th -19th Wednesday – Thursday 10-4pm £90
Whether you are an accomplished painter or a beginner, a professional portrait painter will be able to help you understand the basics of portraiture and improve your work. All mediums.

Making a Picture with Derek Ogbourne
August 19th -20th Thursday-Friday 10-4pm £80
This course will show you how to use sketches, photographs and collage to build strong compositions, which can later form the basis for paintings or prints. Fine archive BW photographs as well as the work of well known contemporary painters will be discussed.

Children’s Drama Workshop with Candida Powell-Williams
August 16th -19th Monday-Thursday 10-3pm £160 *
Enjoy a magical workshop creating the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Scene painting and prop making, the children create everything culminating in a show on the last day which will take them and the audience on an adventure from Kansas to Oz -and back again.

Children’s Pottery “Safari” with Kat Kittnarova
August 16th -18th Monday-Wednesday 10-3pm £120 *
Join our African Safari! We will be making all the wild animals for our own Safari Park. We can make lions, elephants, zebras, snakes, crocodiles, hippopotami and the monkeys.


* The children should bring a packed lunch. Orange squash and biscuits are provided mid morning.



NEW Saturday Workshops - two sets of three classes each

First part: (July)

Life Drawing and Painting with Estelle Lovatt
July 17th, 24th, 31st 10-1pm £ 85
Drawing from the figure has always been essential to the development of artists. This course will examine the basics of drawing, using a range of techniques to explore form, structure and space. Materials: charcoal, pencil and paper.

Portraiture with Desmond Healy
July 17th, 24th, 31st 10-1pm £85
The class will work from the portrait model, with two week poses, using a variety of media. Students will be guided through the process of building a structured figure in space with the use of tone, starting with a limited palette.


Second part: (August)

Printmaking with Emiko Aida
August 7th, 14th and 21st Saturdays 10-1pm £80
This course will explore the techniques of etching , dry point, collograph and monoprint. Whether the results are found by accident or design the medium of print has a natural capacity for spontaneity and surprise.

Basic Drawing and Composition with Derek Ogbourne
August 7th, 14th and 21st Saturdays 10-1pm £75
A course for the beginner. It is about everything to do with drawing:. Working sometimes from what we see and other times from what we imagine, we will then learn how to put these images into compositions to build up the elements for effective pictures.


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