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Short Courses
Our summer family activities,from forest bathing to foraging, are selling fast - check out the full array of fun here. And our full autumn short course programme is now also available to book online, featuring a huge selection of creative experiences ranging from day workshops to week-long retreats, plus weekly online classes. And don’t forget there are bursaries available! Here are a few of the creative treats on offer in September and October…
Step into your Power
Fri 2 – Sun 4 September
Join Anna Selby, Katrina Naomi, Emma Capper and Myrtle Cooper for this three-day creative workshop exploring the experience and challenges of perimenopause and menopause. Expect fire and foraging, rest and writing!
Experimental Drawing and Mark-Making
Friday 2nd – Sunday 4 September
Join Fhiona Mckie for a three-day guided drawing course. Awaken your creativity and connect with nature, inspired by the changing season.
Turner’s Tides & Twilight
Mon 5 – Fri 9 September
This exciting oil painting and colour wash course looks at the work of the landscape painter JMW Turner and contemporary painter Tom Rickman, using the Devon landscape for inspiration and energy.
The Art of Basketry
Sat & Sun, 17 & 18 September
Get to grips with this age-old craft and weave a basket in a weekend! With Vivienne Turner.
Radical Chip Party
Fri 3 – Sunday 25 September
A weekend electronic music and sound art course for all ages and abilities. Explore sound at the fundamental level of wires, solder, electronic components and raw data to create your own sound-making objects and assemblages. Those who have taken the course in previous years will be able to build a sequencer for their Radical Nails and hack the code to create a new, versioned sound device.
Light, Darkness and Colour
Fri 23 – Sun 25 September
Explore the basic principles and science of the camera obscura in practice, with Troy Vine and Alasdair Gordon. This encompasses a wide range of phenomena including the image produced by a darkened room, pinhole photography, coloured shadows, additive and subtractive colour mixing using custom-build projectors, and prismatic colours using state-of the-art equipment based on the latest research.
Diving Into The Long Time
Mon 26 – Fri 30 September
Join Ella Saltmarshe and Pat McCabe in an exploration of how we interact with time, and why developing longer perspectives on our existence changes the way we behave in the short term. This course offers the ideas, tools and space to enable a new sense of your place on the planet and the legacy we wish to leave. We will examine how to shift the systems we live in and how to drive multi-generational projects that last longer than our own lifetime.
Found and Ground Art Materials
Mon 26 – Fri 30 September
Join artist Caroline Ross on this journey through art and nature, using techniques from the Paleolithic to the Renaissance to create art materials that do not cost the earth. You’ll leave with a natural container full of inks, paints, pens, brushes and more made from the living world and skills that can be applied in almost any landscape, as well as a deep appreciation of our ancestors, who made their art without recourse to plastics or laptops.
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