Summer Schools 2025
Still Life Painting with Dominic Vince
Tuesday 8th to Thursday 10th July 2025
10am to 12.30pm
Spend three sessions painting from one set up of your choice. A chance to learn how to develop your composition, colour mixing and visual analytical skills with tutor Dominic Vince. Focus will be on getting more out of the experience of looking and mixing, thinking in a more abstract and analytical way, the joy of looking and responding, and the use of painting as a jouurney that allows us to see more; concentrating on resolving a painting and taking it the full distance rather that making something "good."
£100
The Ceramic Surface with Katch Skinner
Monday 14th to Wednesday 16th July 2025
10am to 4pm
A three day summer workshop to really immerse yourself in playful decoration of the ceramic surface. Using slips and underglazes, traditions slip trailing to stenciling. This workshop is an introduction to surface design using wet and firm surfaces. Using coloured clay slips and underglazes you will experiment with traditional tools, techniques, transfers and layers to develop decorative themes. Using a range of tools from slip trailing, brushing, mono printing, stencils and sgraffito. You will get the opportunity to really experiment with wet slip decorating and traditional pottery techniques.
£200
Stencil Screen Printmaking with Rachel Red
Monday 21st to Tuesday 22nd July 2025
10am to 4pm
Learn to screen print using paper stencils and eco-friendly printing inks. You will learn about colour and composition and what is possible with the process, then design your own piece, cut the stencils and print your own unique art prints. You might produce a number of identical prints or a series of similar related prints. Using paper cutting to create the design is a low tech form of screen printing with minimal kit needed and this course would enable you to subsequently use the process at home.
£130
Drawing Summer School
Monday 4th to Tuesday 5th August 2025
10am to 4pm
Monday 10am to 12.30pm … with Dorothy Simister
Monday 1.30pm to 4pm with Simon Manfield
Tuesday 10am to 12.30pm with Dominic Vince
Tuesday 1.30pm to 4pm Drawing with Natural Inks with Sally Barker
This exciting new two day drawing summer school will give you a wide range of experiences learning from 4 of our experienced Northlight Tutors.
£130
Mixed Media Still Lifes with Amanda Allan
Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th August 2025
10am to 12.30pm
In this summer school of three sessions you will learn techniques including ink drawing, watercolour painting, oil pastels, making printed papers and collage. You will look at a variety of artists and learn about observation, composition, colour theory and drawing for different purposes, in the making of mixed media still life works of art.
£100
Kids Art Summer School with Lauren Law and George Kettlewell
Monday 18th to Friday 22nd August 2025
9am to 3pm
For ages 7 to 11 years
Brand new kids summer school with Lauren Law, our Art Foundations teacher, and George Kettlewell.
There will be a range of creative activities throughout the week.
You can book for a whole week at £150 per child, or £40 per day for part of the week.
Book the whole week here, or email info@northlightstudio.co.uk to book particular days or to ask any more questions. There is also potential for coming from 8am for breakfast too.