Have you ever seen the film Happy Gilmore? If you haven’t seen it, here is a brief description- it’s about an ice hockey player who happens upon his talent for golf while helping his grandmother move. I shan’t go any further as it’s a wild ride. I watched it on repeat when I was little. I have always hoped that I, like Happy, I would just happen upon something that I would just be excellent at. So far, my talent is still too shy to make an appearance, so the quest continues, and the courses below may help you and I tumble upon our talents.
Price: £250 Per Person
A four-week course is ideal for beginners to learn about glaze chemistry and how to develop glazing through wood ash. You will also learn triaxial and line blend testing, and then discuss the results.
Ash Glazes - 4 Week Course - Phil Root Studio
Price: £160 Per Person
Be taught by the glorious Daylesford Farm Floristy Team how to make your very own Easter Wreath. After a tour around the garden, you can pick your seasonal materials to create your one-of-a-kind wreaths.
Easter Wreath Making - Daylesford Farm
Price: £135 Per Person
During this six-week course, you will start by exploring the basics, drawing still-life objects, moving to faces and building on colour and tone. From this stage, you will work from photographs to in-person, with a teacher to guide you throughout.
Introduction To Drawing & Painting - 6 Week Course - The Art House
Price: £240 Per Person
It is ideal for beginners who want to learn the techniques and skills of hand building, coiling, throwing, slipping, and pulling handles, moulds, and formers. At the end of the course, you can pick three pieces to fire and glaze.
Introduction To Ceramics - 6 Weeks Course, The Art House
Price: £395 Per Person
Over 12 weeks or 40 hours, Dr Kathy McLauchlan will bring to life the Baroque style of the 17th Century from artists, architects and designers, including Rembrandt and Wren. As the course is online, you can join in or watch it on your own time at your own pace.
Art Of The Baroque: Rembrandt To Wren - 12 Week Course - V&A Academy Online
Price: £240 Per Person
Taught by Lora Avedian, you will start by exploring the classic embroidery techniques. Inspired by nature, you will draw and transfer this technique through stitching onto fabric. You can also stay for two nights at the B&B at Kindred House.
'Drawing With Stitch' Retreat Weekend With Lora Avedian, 2 Day Course - Kindred House
Price: £60 Per Person
Want to create your lampshade and learn how to screenprint? Join Millie Rothera, textile designer and course leader, step by step in screenprinting your designs onto fabric and turning the fabric into your very own lampshade.
Screen Print And Construct Your Own Lampshade With Millie Rothera - Sunny Bank Mills Gallery
Price: £65 Per Person
Perfect for all levels, Michaela Lesayová will teach you how to create your natural dyes using plants, flowers and vegetables. You will then transfer these skills to different materials such as linen, cotton, bamboo silk, and more. You will come away with the skills to practice this skill at home.
Introduction To Natural Dyeing - The Art House
Price: £200
Molly Mahon guides you through a step-by-step workshop to carve wooden blocks and print your cushion. The workshop includes a private tour of the Charleston house. All materials and lunch are available.
Block Printed Cushions With Molly Mahon - Charleston
Price: £150
Katie Inglis and Phil Root will teach all about the ancient technique of smoke firing. You will explore the methods of burninishing, smoke firing wax, and slip resist.
Smoke Firing With Katie Inglis - Phil Root Studio
Price: £60 Per Person
A yearly celebration of printmaking. A one-day workshop where you will build your skill set in monoprinting and collography. You will develop different prints by exploring textures and overlaying of colours.
Monoprint & Collograph For Print Day In May - The Art House
Price: £150 Per Person
Therese Johansson, Head of Floristry at Petersham Nurseries, will advise you on discovering the most vibrant and dramatic vase arrangement using seasonal materials. There will be refreshments on the day; you can also take your arrangement home.
Price: £45 Per Person
Want to learn how to use the dark room? Choose any photo from your phone, film camera, or DSLR to be developed to digital negatives. The tutor will do this for you. In the workshop, you will learn how to enlarge and create the prints in the dark room.
Printing Your Photographs In The Darkroom - The Art House
Price: £165 Per Person
This workshop with Rupert Aker is for people who need painting experience and a give-it-a-go attitude. You will be using oil paints, palette knives and much more to create a beautiful piece of art work that you can take home.
Price: £185 Per Person
Join professional picture framer Joe Fergey to build your frame. Bring along that piece of artwork that has required one for a while, a maximum size of A3. You will learn how to assemble, sand and finish raw wood, stain and cut, and join hardwood moulding with tools and machinery.
Price: Free
Join Caron Penney as part of London's Craft Week and see the skill and process of how to create hand-woven tapestries. Weaving with traditionaltoday'sals, see the techniques used to produce and maintain the expertise.
Price: £150
Through this workshop you will how to fire your own creations in a downdraught wood kiln, 'fast fire'. You will be guided through the process of stoneware reduction firing on how to prepare, load and fire the kiln. Plus you will have discussions throughout with LGP Founder Phil Root.
Wood Firing Weekend Course - At Lyde Green Pottery, Bristol
Mid-Century Modern Design, Online Course, 28th May – 2nd July, 10.30 am – 1 pm, V&A Academy Online
Price: £120 Per Person
Dr Elisabeth Darby takes you through the 1940s to 1965, contextualizing and visualizing new materials, designs, and forms, zoning in on furniture, lighting, textiles, interiors and more. Over 12 hours, you will learn at your speed from home through the V&A's online course.
Mid-Century Modern Design - V&A Academy Online
Price: £45 Per Person
Do you love the painting of the sea and coastal line? Join Georgie Stewart as she teaches you how to develop your seascape artwork. You will also learn about artists modern and old masters who were inspired by the sea from Turner and Alfred Wallis.
Price: £85 Per Person
Bring your favourite fabric to create your lampshade. The workshop will teach you how to build a lampshade and make more at home.
Hard Lampshades, Minerva Workshop - London
Sketching Portraits (Tuesday Eve), Online Course, 4th June – 9th July, 6 – 8 pm, V&A Academy
Price: £260 Per Person
Every Tuesday evening for six weeks, you can attend a live session with Jake Spicer, with detailed videos of different techniques. You can also have exceptional guest artists and historians join to discuss their insights. You will learn the other components of how to sketch a face portrait. You can attend live online or by catching up through the recorded sessions.
Sketching Portraits ( Tuesday Eve) - Online Course, V&A Academy
Price: £365 Per Person
Attend this incredible one-day workshop to create your glass with Gather. You can gather, colour, and blow the glass into a mould to make your set of tumblers—a unique skill to learn.
Blow Your Own Glass Tumbler Class - Gather, London
Price: £145 Per Person
Have a dinner party coming up and want to learn how to create your own posies and a new recipe? At Daylesford Farm, you will learn how to assemble a posy using natural materials and flowers, led by their Head Florist tutor. After this, you will attend their cookery school, where you will use their organic ingredients to make a beautiful, tasteful dish, which will be served for lunch.
Floristry & Cooking Experience, Half Day Cookery Course - Daylesford Farm
Price: £160 Per Person
As peonies are in season during this time, join Daylesford to make your very own bouquet with peonies and materials. You will be given demonstrations and techniques to grasp this skill through the workshop.
Price: £365 Per Person
Explore the art of glass blowing with an introduction with Gather and their talented glassmakers. You build the skill set of gathering glass from the furnace, manipulating glass, using tools, blowing the glass and choosing the shapes and colours. You will come away (after 48 hours of cooling time) to take your creation home with you.
Introduction To Glassblowing Class, Gather - 1 Day Course, London