Courses for adults

adult classes

Saturday Art School

Our Saturday Art School allows you to improve key skills and techniques with expert tuition from our team of professional artists.

Booking is essential.

Oil Painting: Paths & Possibilities

Five Saturdays from 27 February – 27 March, 10.30am – 1pm

By popular demand! Take inspiration from the great landscapes in the Gallery’s permanent collection and the examples in the exhibition Paul Nash: The Elements. Learn how to use oils to create ideal and imagined studies of your own. Book early to avoid disappointment!

With artist Rebecca Allen

£75, £70 concessions and Friends

Booking is essential. Please ring 020 8299 8732 or make an enquiry below.

Paul Nash on the Sussex & Wessex Coast

Five Saturdays from 24 April – 22 May, 10.30am – 1pm

Be inspired by Nash’s work in confrontation with extraordinary coastal elements. Make oil paintings and watercolours with reference to the exhibition Paul Nash: The Elements, a display of photographic imagery and ‘found’ objects

With artist Felicity Montaigu

£75, £70 concessions and Friends

Booking is essential. Please ring 020 8299 8732 or make an enquiry below.

Cloth & Drapery: Life Drawing from the Clothed Model

Five Saturdays from 12 June – 10 July 10.30am – 1pm

Work from the draped female model, make studies of drapery from paintings in the Gallery collection and explore sculpted folds and patterned fabrics

With artist Valerie McBride

£75, £70 concessions and Friends

Booking is essential. Please ring 020 8299 8732 or make an enquiry below.

Land, Sea and Weather: The Travelling Artist

Five Saturdays from 18 September – 16 October 10.30am – 1pm

Explore coastal rock structures and light effects from around the British Isles. Make studies in a choice of different materials and techniques, inspired by the ‘journeys’ of artists such as JMW Turner, Norman Ackroyd and a display of aerial photographs.

With artist Felicity Montaigu

£75, £70 concessions and Friends

Booking is essential. Please ring 020 8299 8732 or make an enquiry below.

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