Improve your arts & craft skills, or learn some new ones

We’ve got the best modern arts and crafts classes that you can do online or in person at one of our learning venues across England and Scotland. It's never been easier to try your hand at something a little different and discover a new talent.

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Our arts and crafts workshops are perfect if you’re looking to get creative and hands on.

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Take centre stage with one of our performing arts courses, or indulge your photography passion and strike a pose with tips and techniques on how to capture that perfect shot.  

Develop the skills and get crafty with some jewellery making, with no previous experience required. With courses in textiles and sewing, as well as the arts, we really do have something for everyone, and everyone is welcome too.  

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The combination of small class sizes and guidance from expert tutors means that taking part in one of our arts and crafts courses is the perfect place for you to develop your talent, learn a new skill, or start that hobby you’ve always wanted to try.

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Art Practical: Introduction to Abstract Art

Unleash your creativity with our Art Practical: Introduction to Abstract Art course. Learn how to express yourself through abstract forms and explore new artistic techniques. Ideal for artists and crafters looking to experiment with abstraction.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 09/07/2025
Times:
11:00am - 12:30pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Abi Kremer
Course code:
Q00017770
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £33.30

Art Practical: Abstracting Summer Landscapes

Capture the essence of summer in your art with our Art Practical: Abstracting Summer Landscapes course. Learn how to use abstraction to depict the colors and energy of summer landscapes. Ideal for artists looking to explore abstract landscape painting.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 09/07/2025
Times:
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Duration:
6 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Abi Kremer
Course code:
Q00017772
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £33.30

Art Practical: Learn the Basics of Drawing Nature

Do you want to learn the basics of drawing nature? Why not join this course to develop your skills and creativity, find inspiration and receive support and encouragement? This one-week course aims to help you to explore different ways to make pencil marks; the use of tone and shading; line drawings; proportion, perspective and composition whilst drawing nature. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and share your artworks with the tutor and other students on this Online, Two session course.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 11/06/2025
Times:
11:00am - 1:00pm
Duration:
2 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Deborah Crofts
Course code:
Q00021552
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
7 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £14.80

Craft: Macrame for Advanced

Macramé is a creative knotting technique that can be used to make a variety of items, plant hangers, wall hangings, friendship bracelets, belts, and bags. including jewellery and other decorative items. It’s a great way to relax and create beautiful art pieces for your home. Learning new skill is to support learners with their health and wellbeing. Learn a new skill which may be a route into employment / self-employment. During this course your tutor will give you demonstration and individual attention for your guidance. In this course you will be working with a macramé cord and each learner will be able to complete a pot hanger. It can be used by you or can be gifted to the loved ones. This is a continuation of the improvers spring course, but all levels are welcome.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 02/07/2025
Times:
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Duration:
5 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Kauser Nabeel
Course code:
Q00018029
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £37.00

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Duration:
12 months
Fee:
£15

Craft: Dry Sculpture for beginners

This creative and hands-on course introduces learners to the world of dry sculpture — a form of three-dimensional art that uses non-wet materials such as cardboard, paper, wire, fabric, wood, found objects, and other mixed media. Ideal for beginners or those wanting to expand their artistic techniques, this course focuses on building sculptural pieces and the use of clay or traditional wet methods. You'll learn to shape, assemble, and refine structures while exploring texture, balance, and personal expression. This course is perfect for those interested in upcycling, installation art, abstract forms, or simply trying something new in a supportive, imaginative setting.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 23/07/2025
Times:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Duration:
8 sessions
Location:
Briardale house (Blyth)
Briardale Road
Blyth
NE24 5AN
Tutor:
Shaun Parkin
Course code:
Q00022178
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee:
Free

Art Appreciation: Land Art as an act of Devotion

Discover the wonderful practice of LAND ART as a way of becoming more intimate with your surroundings. This is a friendly course designed to support creativity and connection to oneself, community, to the Earth and beyond. This will enhance resilience and well being in order to contribute to a more mindful, compassionate and environmentally sustainable world. The aim is to practice falling in love through offering our creations to the natural world. It will bring more awareness to your life while practising having the self confidence to express yourself. It is ideal for those who want to keep physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually fit. It will offer you guidelines, like helping hands, to move you deeper into your own authenticity and into a life that is richer and fuller, simply because you are living with more skill. This course is designed for all walking bodies and is ideal for people who like to contemplate how to live more skilfully as individuals, as a community and in relationship with your environment.
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Dates:
Wed 04/06/2025 -
Wed 16/07/2025
Times:
10:00am - 12:30pm
Duration:
7 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Ione Harris
Course code:
Q00021564
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
9 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £52.50

Art Practical: Creative Art for Mindfulness

Join us to unleash your creativity and develop your creative skills. This day workshop will give you the opportunity to explore creative themes and ideas to inspire inventive response using a range of mediums to suit the project and your preference . Join us to immerse yourself in a day of creativity and be inspired. Learners will be encouraged to develop and share ideas within the session. Whatever your creative level or direction this workshop is designed to inspire and guide you to develop your creative confidence. Discover how the enjoyment of creative art can be creatively enjoyable and beneficial for well-being.
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Dates:
Thu 05/06/2025 -
Thu 10/07/2025
Times:
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Duration:
5 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Rachel Holland-Hargreaves
Course code:
Q00013102
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £44.40

Craft: Jewellery making for Well being

This creative and eco-friendly course explores upcycling jewellery as a mindful and relaxing activity that promotes well-being. Learners will learn how to repurpose old or broken jewellery into unique, handcrafted pieces while experiencing the therapeutic benefits of hands-on creativity. The course encourages sustainability, self-expression, and stress relief through jewellery-making techniques. Suitable for beginners and those with crafting experience, this course is perfect for anyone looking to unwind, learn new skills, and create beautiful, meaningful accessories.
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Dates:
Thu 05/06/2025 -
Thu 31/07/2025
Times:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Duration:
9 sessions
Location:
Briardale house (Blyth)
Briardale Road
Blyth
NE24 5AN
Tutor:
Fiona White
Course code:
Q00022180
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £84.00

Art Practical: Sketching Colour & Light with Chalk Pastels in Regents Park ; Queen Mary Rose Garden

Do you want to improve your confidence to sketch outdoors? Have you always been afraid to draw outside in public? This course will give you confidence to sketch outside with tips on how to draw quick sketches of moving people through the foliage, from location in Regents’ Park Rose Garden; there will be sketching and chalk pastel demonstrations, combined with drawing theory, showing ways to use a variety of materials and different styles of drawing from thumb nail sketching to building up a final composition. Come and join us in the Rose Garden in the Inner Circle at Regents Park London with your sketching equipment.
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Dates:
Fri 06/06/2025 -
Fri 06/06/2025
Times:
10:30am - 1:30pm
Duration:
1 sessions
Location:
Regents Park Queen Elizabeth Rose Garden
Regents Park
London
NW1 4NR
Tutor:
Debra Collis
Course code:
Q00019126
How you'll learn:
In venue
Availability:
7 places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £14.10

Textiles & Fashion: Hand Embroidery

This course will look at the different stitches and patterns used to create beautiful blackwork samples. These can then be turned into pictures or sewn into various projects. Blackwork is a historical embroidery technique using aida or evenweave cloth, and it is characterised by its use of black thread on a white or light-coloured background. Originating in Spain and popularised in England during the Tudor period, blackwork is known for its intricate geometric designs and floral motifs.
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Dates:
Mon 09/06/2025 -
Mon 28/07/2025
Times:
9:00am - 11:00am
Duration:
8 sessions
Location:
Online
Tutor:
Rebecca Spear
Course code:
Q00022344
How you'll learn:
Online
Availability:
10+ places remaining
Status:
Available
Fee range
Free to £67.20