Week One: July 14th - 18th

Life Drawing —Jenny Scott £70
17th-18th July Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
This is a 2-day course suitable for beginners and everyone interested in revising their drawing skills. Day 1 will be spent drawing, working through quick poses to look at proportion and form, and then on to exploring the figure-in-space with composition and tone. Day 2 will be spent on one pose; expanding on previous ideas. Materials; pencils, erasers, charcoal, Conte pastels (black, white and yellow-ochre).

Still Life – Vincent Milne £90
14th-16th July Monday-Wednesday 10-4 pm
A large still life will be arranged for students to work from with a medium of their choice. We will refer to a variety of artists work Velasquez, Chardin, Matisse, Morandi for inspiration. Students will learn skills for exploring qualities of tone and colour, reflections and texture, rhythm and shape.

Advanced masterclass in painting – Eithne Healy £90
14th-16th July Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
In this course we will use first-hand (life/observation) and secondary (imagination, memory etc.) resources as a starting-point to explore a range of approaches to a selected theme or subject. Students will be shown how to develop their work from this information using research methods to strengthen and progress their ideas. This course is for experienced artists, painters, or portfolio/foundation students who feel that their current work could do with 're-energising'. Students can bring their own materials and paper, but will be encouraged to use ink, charcoal, pencil as core materials.

Landscape — Jan Malaszek £60
17th-18th July Thursday-Friday 10-4pm
Using drawing (and mixed media) as a way of exploring shape, tone and composition in a landscape. Drawing as a form of 'active looking' can help us transform visual information into elements that make a picture composition. We will use a variety of approaches producing drawings which can be scaled up into a painting.  

Jewellery Making (with silver) — Ann Ruthven-Taggart £140
14th-17th July Monday-Thursday 9.30-4pm
This course is tailored for both beginners and those with some expertise. The basic techniques of jewellery making will be covered through a series of projects. Base metals such as copper and brass will be used initially, progressing to silver rings, pendants, cufflinks etc. Techniques covered will be: the shaping and forming of metal, joining, soldering, finishing and texturing. Some materials included. Silver can be purchased at the school.

Field Trip to Gallery – Estelle Lovatt £30 per session (total cost £60)
17th July Thursday 10-4 pm
This is a two-part workshop given by our Art Historian, Estelle Lovatt. The first session will be in the form of a visit to the National Gallery. The second part of the workshop will take place back at the school on Thursday 24th July when sketches made at the National Gallery will be used to produce paintings.

Landscape Watercolours – John Crossland £30
18th July Friday 10-4 pm
Taking masters of modern watercolour like Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer as a guide the class will work outside (weather permitting) or use photographs and sketches of landscapes. The basic principles of wet into wet and dry wash in watercolours will be explained and demonstrated. Watercolour paper is available at the school but paints and palettes must be brought in.

Sculpture – Hiromi Scintu £130
14th-17th July Monday-Thursday 10-4 pm
This will be an enjoyable 4 day intensive portrait class, with demonstrations. Each day will start with a creative charcoal drawing of the model before beginning the sculpture.


Week Two: July 21st - 25th

Portrait Painting—Desmond Healy £100
21st –23rd July Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
New class with experienced tutor Desmond Healy. A course from the model, for beginners to experienced painters. The course will take students through the main stages of creating a portrait. Starting with a number of quick drawings to loosen up and enable us to concentrate on basic anatomy and finding the strongest composition - moving on to blocking out the figure with a limited palette. Finally the course will show how to integrate the figure in space and how to balance the understanding of structure with a sense of 'likeness'.

Printmaking – Theresa Pateman - £100
21st-23rd July Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
This workshop is suitable for beginners or experienced printmakers. In printmaking Dry-point is the method of scoring lines and textures into a surface that can be metal, acetate or laminated card. This surface will then have ink rubbed into it and printed with the use of an etching press. Small editions of prints from the plate can be made. We will look at using different surfaces to discover your preferred medium. Please bring: paintbrushes, sketchbooks. Plates and paper can be purchased in the class.

Children's Pottery (Fairy Tales) – Kate Tilley - £130
21st-23rd July Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
Children will be given the opportunity of creating individual works of art which will be finished by painting with slip colours. Techniques will be shown to build with coils, make tiles, and pinch pots. Children will be able to choose their 2 favourite pieces at the end of the course to be professionally finished, for collection in 1 week's time. Snack and materials included but please bring a packed lunch.

Life Drawing — Mark Wydler £70
24th-25th July Thursday—Friday 10-4pm
This two-day Life Drawing Course will develop the student's ability to see and draw the rhythms and proportions of the figure as a whole, by using a variety of poses, ranging from a few dynamic ones of 3 minutes: to medium length of 15-20 minutes and ones of an hour or more. Particular attention will also be paid to achieving a sense of form and volume. All levels will be catered for.

Beginners Drawing — Eithne Healy £70
24th-25th July Thursday—Friday 10-4pm
This course is for beginners or those wishing to refresh their skills. Aspects of drawing and painting will be explored though a series of projects, in a relaxed and supportive studio atmosphere. Students will be encouraged to develop a personal visual language and response to their subject. Materials pencils 4B-9B, charcoal, ink.

Painting from Photographs – Diana Constance £90
21st-23rd July Monday-Wednesday 10-3 pm
School Principal Diana Constance, the author of 'Painting from Photographs', will be taking this workshop.
The course is intended to show how photographs can be used creatively; the compositions and the light in the photos will be changed and manipulated to enhance the finished painting. This course is not about copying a photo but using it as just the starting point of the creative work.

Gallery Workshop – Estelle Lovatt £30 per session (total cost £60)
24th July Thursday 10-4 pm
Estelle Lovatt – 2nd part of workshop (see Field Trip to Gallery 17th July above for details)



Week Three: July 28th - August 1st

Watercolours – Mary Treherne £90
28th July – 30th July Monday – Wednesday 10-4 pm
This is a course for all levels, so will be suitable for beginners and more experienced watercolourists.A course for beginners and those who wish to improve their skills. We will be working from; flowers, vegetable, fungi, fruit etc, as well as taking a day outside, expressing the individual qualities of different mediums and how they combine to achieve the best results. Materials: water-based pencils or crayons, watercolours or gouache, 300gm watercolour pad, 2 or 3 brushes sizes 2, 6&8 masking fluid.

Landscape – Desmond Healy £60
31st July – 1 August - Thursday-Friday 10-4pm
A course designed to allow students to work out in the landscape - on Hampstead Heath and in the studio, working up sketches made on location. The course will cover how to select a subject in the landscape, composing and simplifying for best effect and will look at how to integrate space and atmosphere into a landscape painting. Working from a variety of media, students will be encouraged to create personal interpretations of the subject.

Portraiture with a Difference – Mary Treherne £70
31st July – 1 August - Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
This is a 2-day painting course has the added attraction of a characterful model set against a colourful exotic background. The course will be suitable for all levels. Most mediums can be used, with the exception of 'chalk' pastels. There will be one pose for both days. Basic techniques/measuring and mixing of paints will be shown to the class.

Basic Drawing – Derek Ogbourne £90
28th – 30th July Monday-Wednesday 10-4 pm
3-day course for the absolute beginner. It is about everything to do with drawing: the hand, the pencil and the paper - although a pencil is not what we will always use. We will cover all aspects of drawing for the beginner and the accustomed 'scribbler'. Working sometimes from what we see and other times from what we imagine, we will learn how to use line in an informative and imaginative way to create form – how to draw things as they appear; how to manipulate what we see to say something else. Materials: small set of soft pencils 4B to 6B, a rubber.

An Opening into the World of Abstract Painting – Ake Arnerdal £90
28th – 30th July Monday-Wednesday 10-4 pm
You are invited to explore the diversity and challenge of the language of abstract painting. By looking at the works of some artists who have chosen this way of expressing themselves, we follow the way this language has developed up to its role in the Art world of today. In this class we also examine the area between representation and abstraction and learn how to abstract a motif in different ways. We will work with still life, photo and collage and you are welcome to work in all media.


Week Four: August 4th - 8th

Botanical Painting –Helen Allen £130
4th – 7th August Monday-Thursday 10-4pm
During this 4-day workshop we shall be exploring summer vegetables and their foliage. Leeks with their roots, carrots with their fronds and pea and bean shoots and other sprouting seeds are all subjects that make pleasing compositions. There will be other summer vegetables available to draw and paint. All will be provided by the tutor at a small cost. If students wish to paint flowers they are welcome to bring their own to paint. We shall be working in watercolour and pencil. Please bring two clean jam jars, hot press (smooth) watercolour paper, brushes and watercolours. Some materials will be available from the tutor.

Portrait Painting – Douglas Druce £100
4th – 6th August Monday-Wednesday 10-4 pm
Join Douglas, an accomplished portraitist, who will show you how to make structured drawings and paintings. You will be shown how to use oils in the traditional way as well as some of the special techniques of the masters. Early booking is suggested for this popular course. Materials: oil paints and canvas.

Children's Pottery – Chris Bramble £130
4th-7th August Monday-Thursday 10-3 pm
Chris will be showing the children how to hand-build their own animal shapes and shakers. They will also create chimes and mobiles based on Safari and Jungle animals. The basics of hand building bowls, tiles and pinch pots will be demonstrated by our very experienced tutor. Children will go on to finish their work by decorating with slip colours. Work will then be professionally finished and ready for a collection 1 week later. A light snack will be provided (squash and biscuits) - children should bring packed lunch or there is a canteen in which the children may purchase additional snacks and drinks.

Children's Painting – Ake Arnerdal £130
4th-7th August Monday-Thursday 10-3 pm
'What are the animals doing?' Create worlds or scenes inhabited by your favourite pets or animals. Children's imaginative painting/drawing workshop with all materials provided. Tutor and assistant present at all times. A light snack will be provided (squash and biscuits) - children should bring packed lunch or there is a canteen in which the children may purchase additional snacks and drinks.

Still Life – Eva Swiderska £60
7th-8th August Thursday – Friday 10-4 pm
An intensive two-day drawing experience examining and challenging ideas of what constitutes 'good' and 'finished' drawings. We will explore contrasting tensions of line and mass, relationship of scale to space. Please bring diverse media: pencils, charcoal, ink etc., black and white acrylics, various brushes and masking tape.


Week Five: August 11th - 15th

Portrait – Mark Wydler £100
11th – 13th August Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
A drawing and painting course that looks at drawing as the foundation of painting. We will concentrate on how to achieve a sense of form with colour and tone and how to create a good likeness. Beginners welcome.

Children's Pottery - Summertime – Kate Tilley £130
11th – 14th August Monday-Thursday 10-3pm
Children will be given the opportunity of creating individual works of art which will be finished by painting with slip colours. Techniques will be shown to build with coils, make tiles, and pinch pots. At the end of the course the children will be able to pick their 2 favourite pieces to be finished, ready for collection 1 week later. Snack and materials included but please bring a packed lunch. There will be a 'Summer' theme to this particular course.

Colour – Derek Ogbourne £60
14th – 15th August Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
This 2-day course is an introduction to basic colour theory and application for artists, designers, film-makers and anyone who has to consider colour design for work or pleasure. The course is mainly practical in nature, so we will be working with paint on paper. Materials: Gouache paint (Winsor & Newton), Flame Red, Cobalt Blue, Spectrum Yellow, Jet Black, Permanent White (larger tube), acrylic brushes, palette, piece of melamine or glass best – 1 ft. square, pencil, compass.

Impressionists' Still life and Floral Art - Douglas Druce £90
11th-13th August Monday-Wednesday 10-4 pm
The class will be producing paintings which call upon the skills and techniques of the impressionists, in particular the work of Manet and Renoir, to capture the freshness of their subjects, and the colour. Special emphasis will be placed on their flower paintings. Oils are the preferred medium.

Jewellery – Drew Perridge £130
11th-14th August Monday-Thurs 10-4 pm
This course is open to all skill groups and beginners are welcome. We aim to design and make one and possibly two items using silver and base metals. The course will cover all the basic skills required in jewellery making from piercing out and forming to soldering and finishing. Students have the option of using copper and brass provided by the school, or silver which they can buy from the school. Some materials included.

Watercolour Masterclass - Life – John Crossland £70
14th August Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
This exciting introduction to painting a life model in the unusual medium of watercolour can be interpreted either as seated portrait studies or as full-length paintings. The model will be put in a colourful exotic setting suitable for the medium. Watercolour paper is available at the school but paints and brushes are not provided.


Week Six: August 18th - 22nd

Portraiture in Oils – Valerie Wiffen £105
18th-20th August Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
Valerie is a well known portraitist with several of her works in public and private collections. The class is both for beginners and more experienced painters. Valerie's basic technique of capturing a likeness and expressing the mood of the sitter will be shown. Achieving the proper skin tones of the model will be demonstrated.

Quick Oil Sketches – Valerie Wiffen £60
21st-22nd August Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
Val will show the class the various techniques of making quick oil sketches, which are so useful for landscape painting. The art of composing a landscape on toned grounds used so effectively by Ken Howard will be explained as well as the use of mirror to draw out a scene quickly and accurately.

Children's Drama: 'Kiki's Delivery Service' – Miles Anthony £130
18th-21st August Monday-Thursday 10-3pm
Enjoy a fun-filled 4 day programme with our drama teacher, Miles. Come and join us for a 4-day experience in the world of Hayao Miyazaki. This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki. Kiki, along with her talking cat Gigi, fly away to live in the seaside town of Korico and have many adventures. We will paint and create our sets and props and write our own version of this great story. Finally on the last day we will have a presentation for parents and friends. A snack and materials are provided but please bring a packed lunch.

Outdoor Sketching – Jenny Scott £30
22nd August Friday 10-4pm
A chance to capture perspective and light in August sunshine. We will meet at the school before deciding where to draw. Materials needed: set of graphite sketching pencils, putty and plastic rubber. Basic colour pastel set for those wishing to work their sketches into colour, cartridge paper, willow charcoal (cartridge paper and charcoal can be bought at the school).

Solar Printing– Theresa Pateman £90
18th-20th August Monday-Wednesday 10-4pm
Theresa will be taking a 3-day workshop in Solar Plate Etching, as an introduction to the beginner/artist-printmakers interested in exploring new safe etch processes. Solar plate or photo-polymer etching requires no acid, and enables the printmaker to transfer images onto a light-sensitive steel plate, which is then exposed to UV light, the surface of the plate is then washed with water and dried, thus creating an intaglio line. The plate can then be printed in the same manner as an acid etched plate.

In this workshop images will be created on plates of A6 size. Participants can bring their own transparencies (up to A6 size), preferably linear (not tonal). Transparencies can be prepared at the school. Drawings can be made spontaneously on to clear acetate, and transferred on to the solar plate. Acetate will be available to work on, and for this you need to bring marker pens of different thickness. Materials to bring: Permanent marker pens (thin/thick), gouache, paintbrushes, Indian ink, image on transparency (optional) apron/protective clothing.

Monoprinting – Krystyna Shackleton-Dziesko £60
21st-22nd August Thursday-Friday 10-4 pm
An exciting course following the tradition of monoprint practiced by Degas. You will be shown how to create your image by drawing or painting directly on a plate. Lace, thread or other fine papers can be used on the plate to create texture and pattern. Paper will be laid on the finished plate which will then be printed on our etching press.


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