Northlight Art School Weekday Courses
Summer Term 2025
We will be offering an 8 week Summer Term 2025 starting Monday 28th April and ending Friday 27th June with a half-term week Monday 26th to Friday 30th May.
Our courses roll over term by term and we expect a lot of returning students. However, please contact us via email or phone if you are interested in any course as there may well be space and if not we have waiting lists. This term we are starting a new Textiles class on Tuesday afternoons teaching basic techniques for total beginners. And there is also a series of Weekend Workshops and Summer Schools
Course fee payments: If you are booked onto a class starting in April you will get an email in early April advising about payment, which should be done using BACS transfer if this is possible.
As a self funding not for profit organisation we try to keep course fees as low as possible whilst still affording the cost of building overheads, wages and materials.
Art Foundations
Experience Level: Intermediate
with Lauren Law
Mondays 10am -12.30pm from 28th April 8 weeks £165
Structured sessions with plenty of demonstrations on techniques and approaches including painting (acrylic/ink/watercolour) drawing, printing and mixed media. Also some time for self-directed study with full tutor guidance.
Art Foundations
Experience Level: Intermediate
with Lauren Law
Mondays 1.30pm - 4pm from 28th April 8 weeks £165
Structured sessions with plenty of demonstrations on techniques and approaches including painting (acrylic/ink/watercolour), drawing, printing and mixed media. Also time for some self-directed study with full tutor guidance.
Art for the Terrified - Absolute Beginners
Experience Level: Absolute Beginners!
with Heather Boxall
Tuesdays 10am-12.30 from 28th April 8 weeks £165
Supportive and structured sessions where you will learn skills that will include painting (acrylic/ink/watercolour), drawing, printing and mixed media. Try out different approaches, experiment with a variety of media and above all, have fun!
The Art of Textiles
Experience Level: Suitable for All
with Emma Wilkinson
Tuesdays 10.00am-12.30pm from 29th April 8 weeks £165
Experience a wide range of textiles techniques and approaches - from embroidery to felting to dying and printing………
Textiles for the Terrified
with Emma Wilkinson
Tuesdays 1.00pm-3.30pm from 29th April 8 weeks £165
Come and learn the basics of textile art, including using a sewing machine, felting, dying and hand embroidery.
Painting Towards Abstraction
Experience Level: Suitable for All
with Dominic Vince
Wednesdays 10am-12.30pm from 30th April 8 weeks £165
Come to terms with abstract concepts that are fundamental to all painting in this popular painting workshop. Lots of one-to-one support from Dominic to help you build and develop your painting skills in oil and acrylics.
Experience Level: All levels welcome from beginners up!
with Katch Skinner
Wednesdays 1.30pm - 4.30pm from 30th April 8 weeks £178
A great chance to work with our celebrated ceramic artist Katch Skinner. Learn all the basics from hand building to casting, slip and glazing…….or build on your knowledge if you have some experience.
Ceramics Workshop
Life Drawing
with Simon Manfield
Wednesdays 1.30pm - 3.30pm from 30th April 8 weeks £165
Ceramics Workshops
Experience Level: All levels welcome
with Katch Skinner
Thursdays 9.30 am - 12.30 pm or 13.30 - 16.30pm from 1st May 8 weeks £178
Working with experienced ceramic artist Katch Skinner, these sessions give you the chance to develop your own ideas with technical support and artistic advice. Hand build, throw or use plaster moulds to produce both sculptural and functional items.
Painting - Approaches to Landscape
Experience Level: All levels welcome
with Dominic Vince
Thursdays 10am - 12.30pm from 1st May 8 weeks £165
A class with an emphasis on landscape painting. Work in oils or acrylics and join a like minded group who are on the same journey - solving the diverse problems that present themselves when dealing with landscape or townscape as a subject
Thursday Painting Workshop
Experience Level: Suitable for all with Dorothy Simister
Thursdays 13.30- 16.00pm from 1st May 8 weeks £165
Dorothy will be taking on this Painting Workshop for 2025. She will deliver guided painting sessions working with different paint media and subject matter. Working in a supportive group there will then be time to use these techniques to follow your own interests.
Printmaking
Experience Level: Suitable for all
with Rachel Red
Fridays 9.30-12.00pm from 1st May 8 weeks £165
This ongoing printmaking class is as suitable for beginners and for those with some experience and will help you to develop your skills and ideas. A range of printmaking techniques are covered through the year.
Printmaking Workshop
Experience Level: Practiced
with Rachel Red
Fridays 13.00 -15.30pm from 17th January 8 weeks £165
This afternoon session for more practiced printmakers who are keen to develop their own projects with technical and critical support from Rachel. The workshop environment means students can work on their own self directed study to further develop their monoprint, linoprint, drypoint etching, screen printing, wood cut skills.