Courses
If you are looking for new and interesting ways to fill winter evenings, we are now running evening courses on different aspects of art practice and appreciation. Each course runs over six weeks, and includes tuition, practice exercises or set tasks for participants, and plenty of opportunity to discuss things over coffee or a glass of wine. Full details will be published in the Calendar
WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
WATERCOLOUR FOR BEGINNERS
A 4-week course introducing the basics of working with this difficult but richly rewarding medium.
Week 1. Introduction: the history of watercolour; materials and what they do; mastering first principles
Week 2. Water control: introduction to tone; getting rid of the details
Week 3. Colour: mixing colours; how colours work together; starting to explore on your own
Week 4. Tricks, tips and try-outs: pulling it all together in a finished piece
PRICE PER PERSON: € to be confirmed
Price includes all materials, instruction, and refreshments
Maximum 8 places
DATES & TIMES: This course will run later in 2026. Dates to be confirmed.
DRAWING
BASIC DRAWING SKILLS: A beginner's guide to how to see
A 6-week course based on Betty Edwards ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’. Each hour-and-a half-hour session covers a different aspect of representational drawing, taking you right back to basics so you learn how to translate the world around you into the language of line, shape and form.
Week 1. Introduction: re-learning how to see
Week 2. Contours: finding the edges and learning to see ‘the jigsaw'
Week 3. Space: negatives and positives, and how to measure them
Week 4. Perspective: linear perspective (one- & two-point)
Week 5. Light: using value to describe form
Week 6. Bringing it all together: making the finished drawing
PRICE PER PERSON: € to be confirmed
Price includes all materials, instruction, and refreshments
Maximum 8 places
DATES & TIMES: this course will run later in 2026. Dates to be confirmed.