STILL LIFE PORTRAIT

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Create an unconventional ‘portrait’ using objects or images which describe that person or place. A great way to convey the essence of someone while developing your imagination and skill in 

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SKETCHBOOK: FAST AND LOOSE COLOUR

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Relax and enjoy getting back to the basics with artful games to get creative inspiration flowing, all in the privacy of your own sketchbook! Explore new ways of seeing objects, 

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NATURE PRINTS

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

“When we observe nature, the guiding feature seems to be a kind of permission to exist, a capacity to co-exist amongst the countless forms of life” Gustav Metzger (1992)  Nature 

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PAINTING THE SEA

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Cumbria's west coast has a wide variety of shoreline subjects for the painter, from dramatic cliffs to sandy/pebbly beaches and tidal estuaries. Join landscape painter Lionel Playford visiting two different 

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DRAWING FROM THE EARTH

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

“Nature, from the Latin nasci means to become, to come from, that is to say, all that by its own force develops, forms, moves.” (Kurt Schwitters 1924) Iron, sandstone and 

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PRE-RAPHAELITISM: DREAMS OF AN EARTHY PARADISE

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Following on from last year’s course on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, we look at some of the later Pre-Raphaelite pictures which proved to be the perfect vehicle for the dreams and 

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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

This course is about exploring ideas and themes in visual form. We will take inspiration from personal and universal stories both big and small. We will work in a sketchbook 

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DRAWING AND PAINTING BUILDINGS

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Have you ever wanted to draw or paint buildings but not sure how to start? Then this course is for you. Learn the tricks of the trade looking at perspective, 

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NORWEGIAN ART: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

19th century Norway was culturally impoverished by 600 years of foreign control, but by the mid-1800s art was becoming a potent expression of national pride, culminating in the realism of 

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BOTANICAL WATERCOLOUR PAINTING

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Sculptural seed heads and glowing hedgerow fruits will inspire you to capture the fresh palette and clean lines of autumn. Working direct from nature, learn to accurately depict them in 

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