Art School Workshops (Full Day/Weekend)
Our full day and weekend courses offer a more intensive learning experience and chance to work with our practicing artists who are passionate about sharing their experience. Basic materials are included in the price – higher priced courses reflect higher materials costs, technical input, life model fees and ceramics firings. There may be occasional small additional charges for specialist materials. We need a minimum of people for a course to run and courses may be cancelled if this is not achieved. Dates are subject to change and new courses may be added.
Also see our Summer Schools program in July/ August, so if you are after some full day or several days immersive art experiences check them out here: General 4 — Northlight Art Studios (northlightstudio.co.uk)
Artists’ Pigments and Gesso Surfaces
with Heather Boxall
Saturday 25th January
10am to 4pm
This one day workshop will introduce you to mixing dry pigments with oil based binding mediums, to make your own artists oil colour. Also, you will learn how to create a gesso recipe and apply it to a painting surface. Gesso is white primer used to prepare a surface for painting. Typically, Gesso is made from a combination of chalk or calcium carbonate and a binder. Traditional gesso used animal glue as a binder, while modern acrylic gesso uses an acrylic polymer medium. Please note for this workshop we will be following a traditional recipe using rabbit skin glue as the binder.
£65
Tetra Pak Dry Point Etching
Saturday 8th February
10am to 4pm
Make intaglio prints from drawings and marks using Tetra Pak as your printing plate.
No experience necessary.
£65
Wax Sculpting for Bronze Casting
with Carole Griffiths
Saturday 1st March 2025
10am to 12pm
Learn to sculpt an object in wax using the Lost Wax process which will be cast into bronze in the Walnut Works foundry and given back to you in a little keepsake box!
£65
Art for Wellbeing
with Annie Harrison
Saturday 8th March 2025
10am to 1pm
Doodle your way to relaxation and wellbeing and learn mindful doodling techniques.
£30
Life Sculpture with Wire
with Judith Glynn
Saturday 15th March
10am to 4pm
3D drawings with wire from a life model.
£65
Ceramics Weekender
with Katch Skinner
Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th April
10am to 4pm
An immersive weekend of clay. Try a variety of techniques.
£160
Messy Play
Let your little one get messy with washable paint, slime, play dough, sand and more. Lots of wonderful textures and sensory fun. Please wear very scruffy clothes that you don’t mind getting all messy !
Ages 1 to 4