Beginner's Screenprinting workshop Come and spend the day with us and learn the art of screenprinting. In the first half of the day, you will learn how to screenprint by making collaborative prints. After that you will design your own print, cut stencils and produce a small edition of prints. You will learn: The difference between a hand-pulled and a commercially produced print and about the different types of printmaking The resources needed for screenprinting: screen, squeegee, acrylic paint and medium, acetate and different papers How to set up the workspace for screenprinting, preparing the screen, mixing the ink and registration How to design a two-colour print To pull a successful print and troubleshoot if necessary To keep the workspace safe from potential hazards and know how to use a craft knife safely and to know how to clear up after a print run! No experience is necessary and all materials will be provided. Small group of only 6! Saturday 9th May 2026 Materials included & cake, coffee & tea. Please bring a packed lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book.

Wire Sculpture Only 6 places to ensure maximum tutor contact time. Jenni will take you through everything you need to produce striking wire sculptures in either 2D or 3D. The morning is spent creating the frame of your form using wire. Then in the afternoon, we work on 'dressing' your frame with material, wire and paint. The 2D pieces can be fixed to a board or straight to a wall. The 3D are fixed to a base for display. Please bring with you some reference of the form you would like to work on. All materials are provided. Please bring gloves to protect your hands. Relatively fitted gardening style gloves are often suitable. You need to be able to feel the wire through them! All refreshments are provided - please bring your own lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. Cancellation:- We regret we are unable to refund a cancelled booking unless the place is able to be filled.

Drawing is the fundamental basis for all art and design. Working on character shop fronts, we will practise capturing the scene in pen and creatively adding colour in the form of a wash. All materials provided. Refreshments included. Please bring a packed lunch. (Please avoid bringing nuts to the studio as Jenni has a severe nut allergy! Thank you.) Only 8 places to ensure maximum tutor contact time. Held at Compton Court, Coldharbour, Sherborne. DT9 4AG Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. Cancellation Policy We regret that we are unable to offer a refund unless your place can be filled.

Come and join us for this fun Gelliprinting and dragon/explosion book workshop suitable for all levels including beginners. Printing from a gel print is an immediate and fun way to produce prints. You will creatively find and use textured objects and stencils to create variety in your prints. In the afternoon you will use some of the prints to make an explosion book, which is a beautiful object to handle and a fine way to display your prints. You will learn: The difference between a hand-pulled and a commercially produced print and about the different types of printmaking. How to create textures with every day and found objects and cut and use stencils on a gel plate. To explore how different colours react in layers. To use magazine photo transfer How to accurately measure the paper, fold and assemble an explosion book. How to keep the workspace safe from potential hazards and know how to use a craft knife safely Refreshments and all workshop materials provided. Please bring a packed lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book.

Extreme- Stitching: Cloth, Stitch and Paper. Themes Small Objects of Desire or Wild Gardens. An introductory workshop based on some of the artist’s personal approaches to creating mixed media works. We will use paper, textile combined with stitch to create pieces based on the ‘land’. Students will explore ideas related to design and the creation of textile papers (momigami), combine paper with fabric and look at different ways of texturing surfaces. A focus will be placed on hand stitching as an extension of mark making and drawing, and various means of layering. We will use photocopies, and build up images, textures and mix materials. You will have a small sample/piece at end of session. Broad outline of the workshop: Introduction. Techniques of distressing, layering, stitch which have been adapted from use in Japanese textile and paper crafts. Building up a range of papers to work with. Exploring ideas for working with the papers such as methods of layering, mark-making with hand stitch, tearing, building towards textured surfaces. Preparation required: Materials and equipment: Basic sewing equipment (scissors, threads, including pins). One waterproof felt pen. Apron. Selection of drawing media of your choice. Pencil crayons, Markers, wax crayons. Small amount of baby oil or cooking/olive oil. Pritt stick/glue stick Papers: Brown wrapping paper or large brown envelopes, tissue paper, Collect assorted waste papers from patterned paper bags, magazines, oriental specialist papers, sweet-wrappers, printed photocopy paper etc. Gathered scraps: Writing, prints, lace, scraps of cotton linen, silk fabrics with or without prints- various sizes. Useful to have - camera, pencil and notebook. Cas Holmes is one of UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and Textile Artist and for the The Festival of Quilts. Trained in fine art, Cas’s work combines mixed media with found materials and stitch and is best described as ‘painting with cloth’. The history and familiarity of worn cotton, linen and paper mark the passing of time informing the narratives contained within the work. Cancellation Policy We regret we are unable to offer a refund unless the space can be filled.

3 day watercolour course - Mondays 10.30am - 3.00pm June 8th, 15th and 22nd. Master Watercolour in Three Centuries - David Chandler In this practical, three day course, we study three watercolours from the Tate archive (one from the eighteenth century, one from the nineteenth and one from the twentieth) that exemplify three key principles of watercolour practice that will help you to master the artist’s most accessible yet challenging medium. Some previous experience with watercolours will be useful. Materials required Basic set of watercolours (to include burnt sienna and phthalo blue) No.6 and 12 soft round brushes (soft nylon, sable or squirrel or mixed hair) 3/4” or 1” flat brush (soft nylon, sable or squirrel or mixed hair) six A3 sheets of 140lb/300 gsm cold-pressed watercolour paper Learners to bring their own equipment. We have items in stock in our shop. Course participants will be entitled to 10% off painting materials. About David Chandler David Chandler has been been teaching art to adults for over twenty years and holds weekly classes in watercolour, acrylic and life drawing in Frome and Bath. He has lectured and demonstrated extensively to art societies in the UK and since 1999, has led regular painting courses in France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. In 2011, he co-founded Frome Community Education, a not-for-profit organisation that delivers more than thirty different leisure classes to adult learners in Somerset. He was a regular contributor to Future Publishing’s 'Paint And Draw' magazine and was the writer and presenter of Seeing Things on FromeFM, a monthly radio programme about the visual arts which ran for more than seventy episodes. His practical book for watercolourists, 'Tate: Master Watercolour', has been translated into both Spanish and Korean and is available worldwide. Payment plans available - please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk-way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. You are welcome to pull into the yard in order to unload before parking. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. Cancellation Policy: We regret there can be no refunds unless your place can be filled.

Print & Stitch This workshop combines two skills, lino cutting and stitch to create a piece of textile art. In the morning we will carve a design onto a lino tile which we will then ink and transfer to fabric. In the afternoon we will embellish the design with stitches in embroidery threads and beads. The completed stitched design will be framed for you to display at home. Materials included & cake, coffee & tea. Please bring a packed lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. Cancellation We regret we can only offer a refund if your place can be filled.

Course will run weekly in term time, on Tuesdays 10.00AM - 3.00PM Starting April 14th at our Sherborne studio. (Live online class available (UK only) including materials package - please email for details.) In this comprehensive extensive ten week course you will discover the art of hand embroidery, connecting your creative practice with art and design. Embroidery is the classic art of decorating fabric or other materials to create a myriad of beautiful hand stitched patterns. This course is suitable for any skill level, from beginner to advanced, because, due to small classes, it can be tailored to suit your ability. During the ten weeks you will produce a number of sample pieces to showcase a variety of techniques, and finish with a final design to create a traditional or innovative piece of work in the form of a wall hanging, a bag, a box or a textile item for interiors. You will be experimenting with a variety of fabrics, traditional and non-traditional, and a number of different variations of the basic stitches. Techniques such as fabric manipulation - pleating, tucking, gathering, burning, melting, slashing and creasing will be thoroughly explored. Also, how to use and add colour in the form of paint, fabric wax crayons, sponging and dyeing etc. will also be included, plus different forms of embellishment including beads, sequins and appliqué. Research into the historical contemporary and cultural aspects of embroidery design and key designer makers, plus looking at the compositional elements of line, colour, texture, shape and form, will inform your own design process and help you to develop your own style. This course follows the specification of the City & Guilds 7161- 204 and you have the option to be assessed for this qualification at the end of the 10 weeks - (additional fee £100) This course can lead to further courses and processes for fashion, couture, costume, textile art and interiors. Refreshments provided, please bring your own lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk-way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. South West Art Courses Ltd. City & Guilds Centre number 009765

Course will run weekly in term time, on Tuesdays 10.00AM - 3.00PM Starting April 15th at our Sherborne studio. (Live online class available (UK only) including materials package - please email for details.) In this comprehensive extensive ten week course you will discover the art of hand embroidery, connecting your creative practice with art and design. Embroidery is the classic art of decorating fabric or other materials to create a myriad of beautiful hand stitched patterns. This course is suitable for any skill level, from beginner to advanced, because, due to small classes, it can be tailored to suit your ability. During the ten weeks you will produce a number of sample pieces to showcase a variety of techniques, and finish with a final design to create a traditional or innovative piece of work in the form of a wall hanging, a bag, a box or a textile item for interiors. You will be experimenting with a variety of fabrics, traditional and non-traditional, and a number of different variations of the basic stitches. Techniques such as fabric manipulation - pleating, tucking, gathering, burning, melting, slashing and creasing will be thoroughly explored. Also, how to use and add colour in the form of paint, fabric wax crayons, sponging and dyeing etc. will also be included, plus different forms of embellishment including beads, sequins and appliqué. Research into the historical contemporary and cultural aspects of embroidery design and key designer makers, plus looking at the compositional elements of line, colour, texture, shape and form, will inform your own design process and help you to develop your own style. This course follows the specification of the City & Guilds 7161- 204 and you have the option to be assessed for this qualification at the end of the 10 weeks - (additional fee £100) This course can lead to further courses and processes for fashion, couture, costume, textile art and interiors. Refreshments provided, please bring your own lunch. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk-way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book. South West Art Courses Ltd. City & Guilds Centre number 009765

Blots on the Landscape "There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso Have you ever wondered exactly how (and at what point) a seemingly random mark on a piece of paper becomes something we recognise? How do the sublime brushstrokes of JMW Turner or John Singer Sargent, for example, change before our eyes from meaningless blobs of colour into clouds or trees; boats or even people? The humble blot was a source of inspiration to none less than Leonardo Da Vinci, to the writer, Victor Hugo and the psychologist, Hermann Rorschach, of course. But it was the artist, Alexander Cozens, ‘The Blotmaster-General to the Town,’ as he was known, who in 1785, codified a method for creating imaginative landscapes from blots. This practical, one day course explores Cozen’s method and seeks to encourage us all to be more alert to the magic that is happening under our very noses, whenever we put brush (or blot) to paper. All comers welcome. All materials are provided. (Your own brushes would be useful.) All refreshments are provided. Please bring a packed lunch. (Please avoid bringing nuts due to a staff nut allergy.) Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking nearby. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Cancellation policy. We are only able to offer a refund if your place can be filled. Thank you. About David Chandler David Chandler has been been teaching art to adults for over twenty years and holds weekly classes in watercolour, acrylic and life drawing in Frome and Bath. He has lectured and demonstrated extensively to art societies in the UK and since 1999, has led regular painting courses in France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. In 2011, he co-founded Frome Community Education, a not-for-profit organisation that delivers more than thirty different leisure classes to adult learners in Somerset. He was a regular contributor to Future Publishing’s 'Paint And Draw' magazine and was the writer and presenter of Seeing Things on FromeFM, a monthly radio programme about the visual arts which ran for more than seventy episodes. His practical book for watercolourists, 'Tate: Master Watercolour', has been translated into both Spanish and Korean and is available worldwide.

Come and spend 2 hours working on your own personal creativity. Practise your skills in painting and mixed media in a relaxed and friendly environment with tutors on hand for guidance. All levels welcome. Wednesdays 10.00 - 12.00. Please bring your own painting equipment. Some mixed media materials supplied. Parking Please note there is no parking directly at the venue. There is on-road parking in the road opposite or in The Avenue where there is a walk way to the studios. Coldharbour pay and display carpark is a short walk. Disabled Parking We have 2 disabled parking bays for blue badge holders directly outside the door to the studios that may be reserved in advance. Please email admin@southwestartcourses.co.uk to book.

Course will run weekly in term time, on Fridays 10am - 3pm Starting April 2026 Participants have the choice to be put in for formal assessment with City & Guilds, at the end of the course. It is not compulsory! (Please note there is an admin fee of £100 for formal assessment with City and Guilds payable at the end of the course with submission of work.) Suitable for beginners, those who are 'dabbling' and those already drawing who would like to explore a variety of drawing techniques and learn about drawing in a historical and contemporary context in order to enhance their practice. This fantastic course covers the vital elements of drawing, including colour, line, shape, form, value, texture, space, and guides the learner through the processes of experimentation and planning, to produce and display finished art works, in our annual art exhibition. Students will explore the use of a sketchbook to record and evaluate their experimentation. We will provide a wide range of art materials, including pencils, charcoal, ink, chalk/pastels, paint, textural mediums, wax crayons, and multiple types of paper. Tasks will include producing drawings showing water, still or moving, horticultural and architectural features. With technical workshops coupled with theory lectures, regular tutorials and studio discussion, learners are encouraged to engage in the research of historical and contemporary practice to help inform and develop their own creativity. At South West Art Courses, we keep group size small at a maximum of 8 learners. This ensures a high degree of teacher contact time while enabling enough participants for engaging group discussion. . Deposit 25% required at the time of booking with the balance due before enrolment in September. Payment plans available. Please email for details. Refund Policy:- We regret we can only refund if your place can be filled. South West Art Courses Ltd. City & Guilds Centre number 009765