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Arts and Crafts

This course will look at famous still life paintings and use these as inspiration to set up our own still life compositions. Each week will focus on a different still-life theme to paint. This will include flowers, fruit and vegetables, bottles and your own personal objects brought in from home.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 24 February 2026

Number of weeks: 5

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

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Arts and Crafts

Using coiling as the main hand building technique, develop your skills through making a collection of containers.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £90.00
Concessionary fee: £51.00
Staff fee: £78.30

Arts and Crafts

Using Slab building to create boxes & lidded forms using clay.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £90.00
Concessionary fee: £51.00
Staff fee: £78.30

Arts and Crafts

Produce work inspired by Asian ceramics or reproduce a piece using the same process to experience how pottery evolved.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 16:30 - 18:30

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £90.00
Concessionary fee: £51.00
Staff fee: £78.30

Arts and Crafts

Develop your pottery work by being inspired and responding to nature.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Wednesday, 3 June 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 16:30 - 18:30

Venue: Florence Art Centre (Egremont)

Full fee: £90.00
Concessionary fee: £51.00
Staff fee: £78.30

Arts and Crafts

Worried you might ruin your landscape by including a figure? The aim of this course is for watercolour painters who are comfortable with painting the landscape but would like to try including a figure or figures to help develop a narrative in their work.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30

Arts and Crafts

Learn the fundamentals of observational drawing by creating realistic still life sketches and drawings with an experienced tutor.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Friday, 17 April 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30

Arts and Crafts

A course for those who enjoy experimenting and want to develop their use of watercolour further by incorporating inks and a range of mixed media.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30

Arts and Crafts

The aim of this course is to learn how to use a sketchbook to develop watercolour techniques and to experiment with ideas and composition.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30

Arts and Crafts

A course for those who have some knowledge of drawing and would like to develop a theme in their work by producing a series of linked pieces.

Mode of attendance: In-person

Start date: Friday, 5 June 2026

Number of weeks: 6

Time: 10:00 - 12:00

Venue: The Gather, Ennerdale

Full fee: £78.00
Concessionary fee: £39.00
Staff fee: £66.30