Art and Craft
Art is the sensual medium of combining colour and texture to produce things of beauty and utility. Art is about the inner vision being unleashed into outer expressions be that through appreciating the art of others or creating your very own art works.
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Colour and Collage: Beginners and Continuers
<p>Collage is a foundation for our cut and paste digital present day and remains popular as an art making activity across all age groups and cultures. This is a creative and engaging course with
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Advanced Colour and Collage Artist Studio
<p>Continue with the highly creative realm of collage and the art of visual composition. Use elements and principles of art & design to investigate and explore the possibilities of collage.
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Introducing your Digital Camera Weekend Workshop
<p>This class is for the beginner. Understand how a camera works and take control of all the digital camera’s essential functions to effect improvement in your photography (mode dial, F Stop, shutter
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Crochet for Beginners
<p>Learn to crochet - it will be fun and relaxing and you’ll be able to make lovely crochet items. This beginners’ level course will introduce you to crochet methodology including various simple
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A Celebration of 400 Years of Women Artists
<p>In every century there have been outstanding women artists who have achieved a reputation that has tested time and sat well-earned, alongside their male colleagues. Often their life stories are
...Approximately 5 hours
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From French Royalty to Empire - Art and decorative elegance from Louis XIV's Versailles to Napoleon
<p>French monarchs managed their images as carefully as any self-branded celebrity today. How did Louis XIV use the artisans and artists of the day through his patronage to enhance and dazzle his
...Approximately 4 hours
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Portraits of Russia: Rublëv, Pushkin, Turgenev, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
<p>This course, focussed on the life and work of some of Russia’s most outstanding personalities, will begin with the work of Andrey Rublëv, Russia’s most famous icon painter, and his circle, and the
...Approximately 6 hours
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Great Roman Collections
<p>This course takes you to Rome’s great art collections: the Capitoline and Vatican Museums, Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphilj; their magnificent locations, their genesis and
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Art and Philosophy
<p>This course looks at the reciprocal relationship between Western art and philosophy. Artists are often been inspired by the thinkers of their time and philosophers have reflected on the meaning and
...Art and Philosophy
<p>This course looks at the reciprocal relationship between Western art and philosophy. Artists are often been inspired by the thinkers of their time and philosophers have reflected on the meaning and
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The Romanesque Architecture of Pisa - Glory of a Maritime Republic
<p>Between the 11th and 12th centuries, Western Europe’s monastic, church and civic architecture, were dominated by very solid looking - and comparatively austere - rounded arched Romanesque
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