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Pottery for All

Cover hand-building methods, a range of exciting projects and learn to decorate, glaze and fire your work. Be as creative as possible! Please bring a notebook to record your work and a pinafore. All levels are welcome.

Pottery for Absolute Beginners

A course aimed at absolute beginners wishing to explore the wonderful world of clay. Learn pottery skills, including: coiling, pinching and slab building, surface decoration, glazing and textures. A friendly and relaxed class under tutor guidance.

Pottery Workshop

Aimed at absolute beginners wishing to explore the wonderful world of clay. Learn pottery skills, including: coiling, pinching and slab building, surface decoration, glazing and textures. A relaxed class with tutorial guidance.

Slip-Casting & Press Moulding

Learn how to slip-cast and press mould multiple small-batch ceramic objects from your plaster moulds. The ceramics studio facilities are available, enabling you to produce finished, glazed objects. Previous experience of ceramics recommended.

Slipware Decoration Workshop

Develop exciting techniques in slipware and decorative skills! We’ll cover sliptrailing, pearling, sgraffito, mocha-ware, brushwork, slip resist and marbling. Previous ceramics experience recommended, but enthusiastic beginners are welcome!

Summer School Ceramics

You’ll produce a selection of work in our ceramics studio and cover basic ceramic skills such as coiling, slab building and modelling. A friendly and relaxed class with tutor guidance. Please note, you will need to cover material costs.

Pottery

Join us for our Pottery afternoon as we teach you how to make your own pottery and create ceramic techniques. Learn hand-building methods, mould making, casting and throwing on electric wheels. Glazes are applied through spraying, painting or ceramic transfers.

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Craft Making

Creative Craft Award - Level 1

Learn the basic skills in craft and develop knowledge of the craft process! You’ll be provided with a basis for progression into further study in craft. You’ll study wood whittling, eco-based crafts using recycled materials and willow weaving.

Patchwork & Quilting

Discover the joy of patchwork and quilting on this enjoyable course, where week by week you will learn the skills and techniques necessary to make a small-sized quilt.

Wood Carving Inspired by Nature for All

Enamelling

Explore a range of enamelling techniques such as stamping and scratch back to create exciting designs using colourful enamels on metal. You’ll create a beautiful pendant or pair of earrings to take home!

Connect your art to nature while learning new skills and techniques in wood carving. You’ll learn how to use a mallet and a variety of equipment, including a gouge.

Wood Engraving

An introduction to wood engraving, a delicate and powerful printmaking technique. Learn about the history, tools, image-making and printing involved in wood engraving. A practice block of wood, ink and paper will be supplied.

Join us on this course and learn how to create a beautiful festive wreath, using natural materials including: moss, pine cones, cinnamon sticks and spruce.

Introduction to Willow Weaving

Join us for this enjoyable course, where we will show you how to work with willow. You will get the opportunity to create a garden wigwam, a small basket, and a 3D animal.

Lost Wax Casting

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Making Marquetry Wood Artwork

Using the historical craft of marquetry you will create a piece of artwork with a contemporary twist. You will learn how to cut and assemble veneers, before designing and creating your own marquetry panel. All materials costs included in fees.

Making Terrazzo Inspired Eco Resin Decorations & Homeware

Come along to this beginner friendly course, where you’ll learn how to create vibrant and colourful decorations and homeware using terrazzo inspired eco resin. This course is ideal for making unique gifts or seasonal decorations.

Design

Art & Design - Level 4

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Introduction to Games Design (Concept)

Conceptualise your game ideas! Create working concepts, a soundtrack and visuals. You’ll learn to put together a game concept to give you a flavour of building an idea for an Indie company, providing you with a springboard into the industry.

DRAWING & PAINTING

Art Mornings: Parent & Child

Join this informal family course to explore creative skill development for both parent and child (1-6 years) amongst friends. Explore techniques and processes in drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics.

Art: Home Education Afternoons

Support your home-schooling with these informal art and design workshops, exploring a range of mediums and techniques in painting, drawing, ceramics, printmaking and textiles. You’ll have access to our specialist equipment.

Drawing & Painting: Beginners & Improvers

An exciting short course for beginners and improvers interested in drawing and painting. You’ll develop new skills and build on those you already have to create stunning artwork!

Exploring Water-Based Mediums

Beginners & Improvers Drawing

Learn the fundamental skills for drawing and develop those that you already have! We’ll cover style, tone, composition and texture in a friendly atmosphere. Suitable for beginners and those aiming to improve their drawing techniques.

Beginners Drawing

During this creative and supportive class, we’ll show you the fundamental skills of drawing so you can incorporate style, line, tone, texture and composition into your art.

Learn skills in utilising water-based mediums or ‘watermedia’ such as watercolour, watercolour pencils, gouache, acrylic and pastels. You will experiment with creating the surfaces on which you’ll create your artwork - including collage.

Exploring Watercolour & Inks

Learn a range of techniques from colour mixing, to composition and perspective. You’ll be encouraged to take an exploratory approach to discover your creative voice and be shown examples of how watercolours and inks can be used in various contexts. Open to all levels.

Drawing & Painting

Delve deeper into a range of approaches to drawing and painting. We’ll teach you about life model, still-life and found material while exploring a range of materials to help you build a repertoire of techniques.

Form, Mass & Structure

Unleash drawing’s potential as a creative skill and tool for artistic growth. Classes integrate historical works, fostering individual expression. Technique contexts include span life and object drawing, as well as traditional methods. Emphasis on drawing as a disciplined foundation for creative ideas.

Drawing & Painting: Beginners

Learn how to draw from observation, using tone and line in a variety of media. You’ll also learn how to paint what you see in the medium of your choice, including acrylics or watercolours.

Looking, Thinking, Making in Contemporary Art Practice

A practical class using a range of materials such as pens, pastels, charcoal, paint, collages, and cardboard, to explore different genres and themes. Activities include drawing, painting, collage, zine-making, small sculptures, photography and printmaking.

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Icon Painting Course

Discover Russian Byzantine icon painting using the Prosopon School technique of liquid egg tempera painting. Paint an icon of the ‘Angel with Golden Hair’ ancient prototype, revealing your unique expression through liquid egg tempera.

Watercolours - Beginners & Improvers

Join us for an enjoyable and relaxing watercolours course for beginners and improvers where you will learn about colour theory and the key techniques for watercolour painting.

Introduction to Drawing

Join us for an enjoyable drawing class where we will provide you with an opportunity to draw from life models and still life setups. Sessions are relaxed and suitable for beginners.

Watercolour for Beginners

Join us for an enjoyable and relaxing introduction to watercolours, where we teach you about colour theory and the two key techniques involved with watercolour painting.

Life Drawing & Painting

Develop your observational and expressive drawing and painting skills, starting with analytic and objective drawing, moving on to explore the expressive possibilities of life drawing and painting.

Jewellery

Introduction to Jewellery Making

Learn the techniques used for adding texture and colour to jewellery. Explore etching, roller-texturing, embossing, achieving patinas through heat and chemicals, and basic enamelling. Basic sawing, filing and soldering will also be covered.

Life Drawing for Portfolio

These short and informal sessions will bring together people from a wide variety of backgrounds to practice life drawing with a model and a range of media. These will be unstructured classes with tutorial guidance.

Summer School Drawing & Painting

Join us for an exciting and creative week of drawing and painting, learning new techniques, composition, and how to use colour. Bring your own work or start a new project. Please note, you will be asked to provide relevant materials.

Jewellery Open Workshop

Join us for a creative open studio class in jewellery making. Our fully equipped metalwork studio is open for you to work on your own projects and create a range of beautiful jewellery pieces. Suitable for beginners and experienced students. Suppliers and equipment provided.

Metal Clay Jewellery Course

Learn how to use various tools and techniques to create beautiful jewellery pieces with a range of textures and finishes applied to metal clay. Produce a range of finished wearable items using a selection of tools. Please note, additional material cost of £20.

Silver Jewellery Making

Make a selection of silver rings for yourself or a loved one. Learn how to make a simple silver ring, a textured ring and design, and make stacking rings using a variety of silversmithing techniques.

MOSAIC & STAINED GLASS

Fused Glass

Learn basic skills such as fusing, slumping and small open casting to create beautiful glass pieces. Suitable for beginners and those with experience in glasswork. Please note: a £15 material fee will be collected at the first session.

Silver Pendant Taster

Discover the beauty of silver smithing with this taster session. Make a unique silver pendant and learn basic metalworking techniques such as roll printing, which you will use to embellish your pendant.

Silver Ring Workshop

Discover traditional silver smithing ring making techniques and the basic skills needed to created a beautiful stamp textured ring in just one day! Learn to measure, form and finish a piece of unique handmade jewellery.

Make a Mosaic

During this fun and creative course, we’ll show you how to create beautiful mosaics. We’ll start with some basic techniques for cutting glass and build up to grouting and finishing.

Making Garden Mosaics

Throughout this unique creative course, you’ll learn how to make beautiful garden mosaic decorations. We will start with basic glass and ceramic cutting techniques and build up to grouting and finishing techniques.

Silver Stacking Rings

Throughout this course, you’ll learn the beauty of silver smithing! Create a unique silver pendant and understand some basic metalworking techniques including roll printing, which you will use to embellish your pendant.

Silversmithing: The Basics

Explore techniques needed to start making jewellery, including process in embossing, piercing, cutting, sawing, soldering, filing and polishing. Cover how to make bangles, chains, rings and pendants. Please note, you’ll need to provide silver - advice provided on best suppliers.

Stained Glass Workshop

Discover and create stunning stained glass panels. Tailor projects to your design preferences, focusing on colour, composition and architectural placement. Suitable for beginners and experienced individuals. Explore glass painting, printmaking, and kiln forming techniques. Glass and lead materials required (details provided in first session).

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Summer School Stained Glass

Learn more and create beautiful stained glass panels. Tailor projects to your design preferences, focusing on colour, composition and architectural placement. Suitable for all levels. Explore glass painting, printmaking, and kiln forming techniques. Glass and lead materials required (details provided in first session).

Photography

Cyanotype Photographic Printing

Learn the process of mixing cyanotype solution, coating, exposing and washing prints while making your own photograms. Use digital negatives to print your own photographic images onto cyanotype.

Printing

Block Pattern Printmaking

Learn and develop the basics of block printing, a process of printing patterns with carved blocks. You will explore the process of creating your own unique design and printing it onto fabric.

Creative Printmaking Workshop

Darkroom Open Workshop

Use our darkroom facilities to make prints from your own negatives. The workshop time could be used for film developing and processing. Ten sheets of light sensitive paper and processing chemicals provided.

If you’ve always wanted to learn the craft of printmaking, then this workshop is perfect for you. Explore and develop your personal ideas using a variety of techniques and processes.

Etching

Explore a range of etching processes, including dry-point and soft and hard ground etching. Learn a variety of ‘biting’ and ‘inking-up’ techniques to enrich your work. You will need to supply editioning paper (Snowdon 300gsm) and drawing materials.

Digital Photography Continuation: Developing your Skills

If you wish to develop your skills and try new things in photography, then this course is for you! Our tutor will help you further your enjoyment in photo taking and digital retouching. Suitable for those with basic experience in photography.

Digital SLR Photography for Beginners

If you have recently discovered a love for photography, learn to get the most out of your camera. Perfect for teaching you how to compose your photos and a camera’s manual controls.

Political Prints

A thought-provoking class exploring the work of printmakers past and present, social justice struggles around the world, and combining it with printmaking techniques to create powerful images.

Printmaking

Join us for this interesting course as you explore a variety of printmaking techniques, such as monoprinting, linocut, drypoint etching, screen printing and photo silkscreen.

Summer School Screen Printing

Explore photographic, hand-drawn, and block shapes methods of screen printing. Learn about water-based inks, how to control ink transparencies, and how to use overlays and gradients to achieve fullcolour results.

Textiles

Beginners & Improvers Machine Sewing

Join us for an enjoyable introduction to machine sewing, from setting up a machine to completing your first projects. Choose from our selection of projects or bring your own and work on them, with tutorial support.

Beginners Machine Sewing

Experience a fun introduction to machine sewing. Learn machine setup, stitches, and feet usage. Complete your first projects under the tutor’s guidance. Gain skills in fabric selection, measuring, marking, cutting, and more.

Embroidery for Texture & Depth

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Embroidery Summer School

Master essential stitches in hand embroidery, both modern and traditional. Our expert tutor will guide you on framing and various stitches, starting with core ones. Progress to experimental and creative stitches, so that you can complete your own embroidery project in your free time.

Felt Making

Join us to explore the hand-felt making process, learning different methods of colour mixing and manipulating wool tops to create subtle textures and surfaces.

Contemporary Crochet & Knit

A hands-on workshop that explores a wide array of crochet and knit stitches. Learn a new set of stitches or construction methods, get to grips with reading patterns and terminology, and gain a better understanding of yarns and their properties.

Improvers Machine Sewing

Join us for an enjoyable improvers course in machine sewing. Perfect for those with some experience wishing to dust up on their skills. Choose from our selection of projects to get you started - our tutor will provide support and advice throughout.

Crochet for Christmas

Join us for our crochet Christmas special! Learn basic crochet stitches, joining techniques, shaping and colour work, so you can make fun decorations. Create decorations including a pompom wreath, granny square bauble and gingerbread man applique.

Crochet Granny Blanket

Join Katie Jones, tutor and very talented crochet designer, as she teaches you the basic Granny square motif. You’ll learn adaptations of the motif and then how to join individual pieces to complete a larger blanket. Suitable for beginners.

Embroidery for Fashion

Develop your hand embroidery skills! If you joined our Introduction to Embroidery course, then we’ll build on those techniques and introduce you to more advanced skills, such as raised and ribbon work.

Improvers Patchwork & Quilting

Join us for this patchwork class where you’ll learn with likeminded aficionados. Tackle more advanced techniques such as foundation paper piecing, curved piecing, applique, or feel free to work on your own projects with tutorial support.

Introduction to Knitting

Come along and learn to knit in our Introduction to Knitting class. We’ll teach you the basics in our friendly, relaxed group. You can then work on your own project to create a lovely knit.

Introduction to Embroidery

Join us for an enjoyable introduction to embroidery. During these 10 evening classes, you will be introduced to the fundamental stitches used in modern and traditional hand embroidery.

Introduction to Patchwork & Quilting

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Discover the joy of patchwork and quilting on an enjoyable journey, where week by week you will learn the skills and techniques required to create a small-sized quilt.

Learn how to Crochet

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to crochet, then come along with your own small project and learn with us in a friendly, relaxed group.

Leatherwork for Beginners

This course will explore traditional leatherwork skills, involving basic cutting, edging, heat creasing, staining and polishing leather. Various traditional hand tools will be available for you to use in order to develop your leatherworking skills.

Pattern Cutting & Dressmaking

Design and make clothes to your own measurements using traditional techniques or adapting a pattern. Please bring a basic sewing kit. Relevant materials will need to be purchased. Sewing machine knowledge and sewing skills are essential.

Recreate the Pattern of your Favourite Garment

Have a favourite garment and want to have it in a different colour or fabric? Learn how to create a copy of the pattern pieces and add the correct seam allowances, darts and pleats. You’ll create a paper pattern to take home and create.

Modern Macramé

Join us to learn about the beautiful art of macramé. We’ll teach how to tie a range of macramé knots so you can create a unique piece for your home. By the end of the two days, you’ll have a macramé plant hanger or wall hanging to take home.

Sew Sewcial

This is your chance to work on whatever sewing project you want in our fashion workshop! Bring a garment that needs fixing, a pattern of your choice or a project your working on. We’ll provide advice, table space, sewing tools and machines.

Sewing for All

Join us for an enjoyable and creative course where you can construct an item of clothing using a machine or hand couture.

Sewing for Beginners

This is the perfect place for total beginners to start their sewing journey. We will introduce you to sewing techniques needed to start making clothes, and then build up your confidence to use one of our sewing patterns.

Natural Dye Workshop

Discover the beauty of natural dyes using locally forged plants, leaves and botanical extracts. Using wool, silk, cotton and linen, learn how to prepare fabric with mordants before dyeing. Create textiles on fabrics, tote bags and t-shirts.

Summer School: Knit & Crochet

Learn a new set of stitches or construction methods, get to grips with reading patterns and terminology, and gain a better understanding of yarns and their properties. There will be inspirational imagery, examples, and handouts available throughout the course.

Weaving

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Upholstery

Upholstery Workshop for Beginners

Gain an understanding of basic upholstery techniques. Upholster a buttoned stool or complete a traditional hand stitched squab cushion. Please bring either a small stool or some ticking fabric to the first session.

AAT Accounting - Level 4

Offers technical training in accounting and is ideal for anyone wishing to pursue or progress their career in accountancy or finance. Acquire professional accountancy and finance skills that will be useful throughout your career.

Upholstery Part 2 - A Follow-On Workshop

A follow-on upholstery course for those who successfully completed the beginners class or have some experience of upholstery and wish to advance to the next stage.

BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & LAW ACCOUNTING & BOOKKEEPING

AAT Accounting - Level 2

Develop a strong foundation of bookkeeping knowledge and skills needed to work in accountancy and finance, or to study at a higherlevel. Learn to confidently carry out typical bookkeeping transactions and tasks.

TOM JENKINS

Studying AAT Accounting at East Sussex College.

AAT Bookkeeping - Level 1