Courses and Workshops

Warren Sealey · Arts · Painting: Oils and Acrylics

What is the course about? In this workshop we will be looking at the factors that make up a still-life painting. Working from a photograph we will explore all the basics of oil painting to get you started in this excitin…

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Bill Guilding · Arts · Painting: Oils and Acrylics

What is the course about? This is a day-workshop, aimed at people who have not painted in acrylics before or not in a representational way. We will copy a landscape painting, and you will be guided through each step, and…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Enjoy the fun of creating sketches of landscapes and flowers guided by an experienced tutor using easy step by step demonstrations. Including brush techniques and useful colour mixing in a frien…

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Holly Foskett-Barnes · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? This day course offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself as the seasons shift. Tutor Holly invites you to explore the beauty of Autumn through watercolours, while cultivatin…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Spend the day drawing and painting flowers in watercolour with easy to follow step by step guidance from an experienced tutor, including brush techniques and useful colour mixing in a friendly,…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Enjoy a day painting an inspiring scene. A great way to learn and expand your skills and confidence in the handling of watercolour. A step by step class with clear demonstrations including colou…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Capture the glowing scenes of Autumn in this inspiring workshop, receiving step by step guidance and demonstrations with an experienced tutor. Including brush techniques and useful colour mixing…

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Holly Foskett-Barnes · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Take a pause from the festive rush and spend a gentle afternoon nurturing your creativity. In this calming workshop, tutor Holly will guide you through mindful watercolour techniques to create h…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Spend the day drawing and painting flowers in watercolour. With easy to follow step by step guidance from an experienced tutor, including demonstrations how to use drawing pens and useful waterc…

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Marilyn Millard · Arts · Watercolour

What is the course about? Have you ever wanted to paint an inspiring winter snow scene? This workshop is an excellent way to develop your watercolour skills, you will be guided with step-by-step demonstrations on colour…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Find out how to use plants to make photographic images in this experimental workshop. This style of printmaking is an excellent lesson in slowing down, how to be more eco-conscious images, and h…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? This workshop is suitable for those with a 35mm or 120mm film camera. Using steeped tea, vitamin c tablets and washing soda, participants will learn how to make their very own homemade darkroom…

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Fra Beecher · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? A watergram is an experimental photography technique, which captures ripples and reflections on the surface of water, without using a camera. Using a flash, photographic paper and darkroom chemi…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Learn how to make your own developer using wood ash and coffee grounds to create unique and textured prints in the darkroom. In the first half of the session we will look at the inventor of the…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Using vitamin C tablets and washing soda, you will learn how to make your very own light sensitive chemistry. This can then be applied on to light sensitive materials such as photographic film t…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Learn how to make stunning light sensitive prints using silver gelatine darkroom paper. Discover how darkroom paper works and experiment with using analogue and digital technology to make your o…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Combine printmaking and drawing with darkroom photography in this experimental workshop. Cliche-verre was used traditionally in photography's infancy to reproduce drawings and prints. In contemp…

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Connie Whitham · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? In this workshop, we will start by learning how to process a black and white film (35mm or 120mm), before making a contact sheet of your negatives. We will then select one of your pictures to en…

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Sophie Sherwood · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Join Folk House Darkroom Manager Sophie Sherwood for a relaxed walk around the city centre with other analogue photography enthusiasts! We will be meeting at Bristol Folk House fo…

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Martin Edwards · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Learn how to use a 5x4 large format camera. The negatives are 5x4 inches (approx 12.5x10cm) and give very high quality analogue photographs, which can be printed in the Folk House darkroom. The…

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Connie Whitham · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Learn step by step how to produce black and white darkroom prints from your photographs taken on film. In this all-day course we will cover various types of photographic paper, how to set up an…

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Martin Edwards · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Try 35mm film photography - no camera needed. This workshop is an opportunity to try out black and white film photography, with all equipment and materials supplied. (You can bring your own 35mm…

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Martin Edwards · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Lith Printing is a now-little-used darkroom technique which produces contrasty and warm toned images on high quality fibre-based paper. It uses a specialist developer and a fairly lengthy proces…

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Cathy Spence · Arts · Photography (All types)

What is the course about? Photographing the Spaces Loss Leaves Behind And the Meaning We Build from Them This workshop is not about providing counselling or offering fixed answers - grief is deeply personal, and everyone…

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