This course explores intaglio and relief techniques using texture and tone to make prints that are both painterly and graphic. The print techniques covered will allow for spontaneity and a process-led approach, whilst also allowing for focus on the hand drawn image. You will learn to use monoprint, collagraph and drypoint plates in a low toxic environment to develop a fast and immediate style of printmaking. This course is ideal for students who wish to bring their drawing, texture and colour skills to the print studio, to complete a series of multi-plate colour prints.​ Guided by one to one tutoring from Katherine Jones, a British printmaker with extensive professional printmaking experience, you will expand your knowledge and develop a unique self-led project.

This course will give you the opportunity to explore a wide range of sculptural forms, language, materials and processes. Throughout, the tutor supports each student individually to develop their own approach and visual language through the exploration of materials and techniques. Some may also wish to focus on a particular area of interest or line of enquiry and work independently. The availability of a life-model for part of the course allows students to use the human form to express emotion, energy or character and question what the human form/body means to them as a source of artistic inspiration. This in turn leads to a more developed understanding of how to use all sculptural form (figurative or abstract) and to understand the subtlety needed when choosing the appropriate formal language, materials and processes to best express their sculptural ideas. All of these aspects will equally be covered as structural/compositional principles to suit their needs should you not wish to use the model as reference. Each week begins with a presentation about the material we will be working on that week, techniques artists use, and contemporary artists who work in the given medium, as well as lots of images for inspiration! The tutor will carefully take you through a creative process, with structured guidance in the creative and technical processes. Students are free to create sculptures at any scale and in the material of their choice. This programme is an important opportunity to develop the skills to create sculptures that have expression as well as being technically accomplished.

This course offers an opportunity to work in clay whilst studying directly from the life model; combining modelling skills and creativity with anatomical knowledge. Suitable for both beginners and more experienced sculptors, on this course you will sculpt the full figure on a half-life scale. Through learning various techniques in observation, measurement and use of a plumb line, students will understand the essentials of construction as well as the importance of capturing gesture and proportion. More advanced students will have the opportunity to push in a more personal direction; with the potential to produce larger scaled and more specific work, such as the torso.

This course explores form and colour through reduction relief printmaking; a traditional and immediate sculptural approach to print utilising professional Japanese woodcut tools. This course is ideal to develop your colour skills, learning to apply multiple colour combinations to wood and linoleum blocks, expand your printmaking knowledge and develop a self-led project. The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands‐on learning. Materials are not included and there will be an additional cost to cover basic material use.

This course explores painting through etching; an intaglio approach to print, originally utilised by Francesco Goya to combine line and the tone with tonal washes and painterly brush marks, as beautifully demonstrated today by Norman Ackroyd, RA. Using a low toxic saline sulphate mordant, you will learn to paint with sugar and etch both aluminum and zinc plates to realise a series of print editions.​ Guided by one to one tutoring from Katherine Jones, you will expand your knowledge and develop a self-led project. The studio is a low-toxic environment with dedicated printmaking facilities for professional hands‐on learning. Materials are not included in the course and self-led editioning projects can be tailored to individual needs.

This course is for students who are interested in exploring the construction of space, both literally and with concern to the language of space as material itself. We will look at the internal space of the body and what it means to make artwork that challenges the limits of the body in its environment. Although the world we live in is ever expanding into the digital and virtual field, this course explore tactility; the immediacy of materials that can be played with, manipulated and displayed. The material of space can sometimes seem irrevocable, yet as artists our role is to play and to see what it might mean to treat steel like paper or concrete like water. Through the course you will develop your voice as an artist, explore your own language and how you might begin to communicate to your audience. Tutors will take you through some of the planning processes of making large scale works and the idea of making proposals, both with a view to realising the work and the idea of proposal as artwork.

The course is designed to offer you an in depth insight into all aspects of working with bronze. You will have the opportunity to cast a 2.5kg sculpture in bronze. In collaboration with Bronze Age Foundry, we will offer the unique opportunity to explore all the processes involved in bronze casting. Your final bronze sculpture will be exhibited in a group show at the Limehouse Gallery, London​.