The
Richard
Attenborough
Centre: Leicester

Freely explore your drawing and mark making to create spontaneous print works on paper and cloth. An experimental course using a variety of print techniques, combining stencilling, collagraph and lino printing.

How intriguing do things look when they are broken, torn or decaying? A broken pot, petals from a flower, archaeological finds, a torn photograph - explore such ambiguities to find ways to make creative, inspiring images that cannot easily be named.

Explore various ways to depict stillness and movement through composition and different methods of utilising versatile acrylic paints.

By keeping a range of different sketchbooks, discover ways of breaking new ground rapidly and how to use this information to produce final works in more substantial media. For the more adventurous student wishing to take risks and experiment.

Understand the role colour plays in communicating ideas and moods. Experiment with a wide variety of colour schemes, materials and methods to create pictures that are visually rich and complex.

Suitable for both beginners and more advanced students with individual tutoring provided.

Geometric and organic, solid and open, curved and angular - develop a keener eye and new insight into the many different shapes and forms that are encountered every day.

Convincing paintings and drawings tend to be founded on careful observation and an understanding of how shapes relate to each other. This course will offer the opportunity to work with fairly complex shapes, such as broken shells, vegetable forms and the human figure, and study proportion to assess its importance in a successful image.

Take your drawing to another level and discover innovative approaches to working with the human form. Open to those with no previous experience of life drawing, this course is particularly useful if you are looking to develop your portfolio.

Explore the visual and construction qualities of paper, card and wire, manipulating materials to discover their full potential and new ways of making sculpture. Scale, surface, line and movement are among some of the themes you will investigate, inspired by natural and manmade subjects with close reference to different styles and concepts.

Following a different theme each term, develop ideas and experiment with form through drawing and maquette making, before scaling up your idea to create a finished piece. Suitable for both beginners and those with previous experience.

Be taken on a journey through historical and modern art with a combination of illustrated talks, guest lecturers and lively discussion. Each term the tutor will select new themes inspired by the interests of the group. Please contact us for up-to-date information on course themes.

Explore decorative handsewing techniques, including applique with unusual recycled materials, 3D applique, contemporary cutwork in felt and leather, and innovative embellishment techniques, inspired by historical textiles.

An inspirational course offering a new approach, where you can learn jewellery-making skills, explore how to include new media within your designs and produce beautiful work. Includes techniques such as soldering, fusing, shaping, doming, texturing and colouring the metal.

Develop your ideas, confidence and techniques in a helpful, informal environment, where a range of techniques and materials are presented through such interesting themes as trees, flight and skylines.

An opportunity to produce realistic or abstract artworks from the study of natural forms and structures, using a range of unusual materials and techniques.

A broad course based on the theme of the seasons, designed for those who wish to find ways into art. Visual images and objects will be provided to inspire a variety of approaches using all sorts of materials.

Through themes, discover creative possibilities in two and three dimensions, exploring a variety of materials and techniques.