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Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Improve your drawing and painting skills through observational studies of natural forms and still life.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Monday, 7 September 2026
Number of weeks: 7
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £138.50 | Staff fee: £118.55

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Get creative and enjoy combining collage, printing, painting and a variety of mediums to create unique artwork.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Monday, 11 January 2027
Number of weeks: 5
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £100.00 | Staff fee: £85.75

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Convey the mood and atmosphere of winter landscapes on this improvers painting course.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Monday, 2 November 2026
Number of weeks: 7
Time: 12:30 - 14:30
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £138.50 | Staff fee: £118.55

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

This course for learners with some watercolour experience who want to develop their skills through painting natural and built landscapes. You will explore colour, tone, composition, and layering techniques to create depth, light, and atmosphere while gaining confidence and developing a more personal approach to landscape painting.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Wednesday, 24 February 2027
Number of weeks: 5
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £97.50 | Staff fee: £83.25

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

This course is for learners with some watercolour experience who want to develop confidence and technique through painting coastal scenes. You will explore colour, tone, layering, and expressive mark-making to capture light, movement, and atmosphere while developing a more personal approach to seascape painting.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Wednesday, 6 January 2027
Number of weeks: 6
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £116.50 | Staff fee: £99.40

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Unleash your creativity with a mix of materials and techniques to craft unique textile designs, combining mindful stitching, vibrant collage, printmaking, and found objects for truly one-of-a-kind pieces.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Thursday, 7 January 2027
Number of weeks: 8
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Venue: Hindpool Community Centre

Full fee: £152.00 | Staff fee: £129.20

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Learn how to use watercolour to convey the shadows, diffused light, colour and atmosphere of winter scenery.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Monday, 2 November 2026
Number of weeks: 7
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £138.50 | Staff fee: £118.55

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

Push your watercolour skills further by combining a variety of media with watercolour to create exciting artwork.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Monday, 7 September 2026
Number of weeks: 7
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Venue: Kendal Cancer Care

Full fee: £138.50 | Staff fee: £118.55

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

This course will look at famous artists and paintings and use these as inspiration to create our own paintings.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Number of weeks: 12
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £228.00 | Staff fee: £193.80

Curriculum area: Arts and Crafts

A course for those who have some knowledge of watercolour painting and would like to develop a theme in their work by producing a series of linked paintings. The aim of this course is to experiment with watercolour and to understand what your personal style is. You will think about how you like to paint and how you would like to paint in the future.

Delivery type: In-person
Start date: Tuesday, 12 January 2027
Number of weeks: 10
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £190.00 | Staff fee: £161.50