FULLY BOOKED: SILVER JEWELLERY: BRACELETS, RINGS AND PENDANTS
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth
FULLY BOOKED: EXPLORE EMBROIDERY (WINTER SPECIAL 3 nights for 2)
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth
FULLY BOOKED: EXPLORE EMBROIDERY (WINTER SPECIAL 3 nights for 2)
Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, CockermouthWeek of Courses
FULLY BOOKED: SILVER JEWELLERY: BRACELETS, RINGS AND PENDANTS
This course is aimed at beginners and intermediate level students. Students will make 3 beautiful pieces of silver jewellery - a bracelet and two rings. Summer and Winter course projects differ. Rebecca Halstead Residential: £410 Non-residential: £285 (materials available from tutor £48)
FULLY BOOKED: EXPLORE EMBROIDERY (WINTER SPECIAL 3 nights for 2)
Come and explore hand embroidery. This course is suitable for all levels of embroiderers, from those brand new to embroidery to the more experienced stitcher. You can choose from one of the kits available, good for an introduction into embroidery or from a selection of embroideries on display using your own fabric and threads. You
INSPIRED BY ST IVES
A new and delightful course working in the studio from imagery and still life arrangements. Bring along your images from visits to the coast and interpret them with inspiration from St Ives artists Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham amongst many others. This is a course for those with some painting experience.
FULLY BOOKED: PORTRAITURE (CLOTHED LIVE MODELS)
One of the essential skill sets for artists, during this course we will focus on the clothed model and will include working from live sitters. You will be guided to experiment towards a freer, yet meaningful drawing style. You will expand, refine and challenge your drawing practice whist reinforcing all the essential fundamentals with in
FULLY BOOKED: EXPLORE EMBROIDERY (WINTER SPECIAL 3 nights for 2)
A friendly course for all, from new to the more experienced. Bring your own project for helpful guidance or choose a project available from the tutor. 2nd of 3 successive courses with Angie - each with the 3 for 2 special offer! Angie Burt Residential: £305 Non-residential: £220
FULLY BOOKED: EXPLORE EMBROIDERY (WINTER SPECIAL 3 nights for 2)
A friendly course for all, from new to the more experienced. Bring your own project for helpful guidance or choose a project from the tutor. Last of 3 successive courses with Angie - each with the 3 for 2 special offer! Angie Burt Residential: £305 Non-residential: £220
FULLY BOOKED: UPHOLSTERY WEEKEND
Hands-on! Bring chair, stool, ottoman, headboard... Build up from scratch or just re-cover, tackle interior paddings with traditional or modern techniques. Please contact Cathy prior to your course to discuss your project needs. Contact information available from the Higham office. Cathy Newbery Residential: £305 Non-residential: £220
RICHARD STRAUSS: TONE POEMS
In the 1890s Richard Strauss dazzled the musical world with a series of celebrated tone poems. From Don Juan to Till Eulenspiegel, Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001 Space Odyssey) to the Alpine Symphony and from Death & Transfiguration to Ein Heldenleben we will feast our ears on his rich orchestral palette and his depiction of character
SUNDAY LECTURE: A Shadow of Magnitude: Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1870
SUNDAY LECTURE: A Shadow of Magnitude: Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1870
This lecture will document and consider the historical presence of people of African ancestry in Cumbria between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Building on the foundational research of regional archivists and historians, the lecture will dwell on the evidence that survives of these peoples’ lives and explain what that evidence reveals about Cumbria’s social makeup