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ART Workshops & Courses for adults

"Always wanted to have a go and can't wait to get stuck in (may need a few pointers along the way)."

Is this you?

Then you've come to the right place!

George Bernard Shaw said:                        

"We do not stop playing because we grow old...we grow old because we stop playing!"

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Join our adventures into the world of art.

Our strategy: by exploring key techniques, skills & styles; discovering the possibilities - and how to avoid the pitfalls - of a variety of drawing and painting mediums, you will develop the confidence to apply these in your own work.

Suitable for complete beginners age 16yrs+.  Improvers welcome to "get you back into it" within a relaxed, friendly group settting.

 

Tuesdays 10am-12pm and 7-9pm

Courses: £75 2 hours per week for 5 weeks: group tutorial followed by practical work with tailored, individual guidance from the tutor, as and when required.  Materials not included, recommendations further down this page.

Indiviual Workshops: £25 one-off 2 hour introduction to a particular medium eg. drawing, or painting with oils, acrylics or watercolours.  We provide the materials so you can try them out before you book a course.

 

Keep up with our student's weekly progress on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ArtClassesBerkshire/

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Individual WORKSHOP DATES 

June 3rd: Drawing with a variety of media

June 17th: painting with Oils

July 1st: painting with Acrylics

July 15th: painting with Watercolours

COURSES run September to May 

2025-26 DATES coming soon.

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Before making a payment: Please read the Booking Terms & Conditions and Cancellation Policy at the end of this page.

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for your creative Friend, or Family Member:

For a specific course or workshop: 

Tick the box "this will be a Gift" on the booking form.

Prefer them to choose?

GIFT VOUCHERS are available.  Before purchase, or if you have received a Gift Voucher, please read the Terms & Conditions at the end of the Gift Vouchers page.

Materials & Equipment: Please ensure you have appropriate materials & equipment required for your workshop/course: a range of sketching pencils from 6H-6B; charcoal; a putty rubber; a sketchbook - A3 size recommended with a smaller A4 sketchbook for notes, minimum 140gsm - suitable for a variety of media including acrylic, oil & watercolour paint - enabling you to experiment and to track development of skills, techniques & processes if you are attending a course; acrylic, oils or watercolour paints according to the workshop/course title. Brand recommendations: Acrylic paints: Daler Rowney System 3, soft brushes, palette knife set; acrylic sketchbook/canvas or board according to your preference. Watercolours: Winsor & Newton Cotman; soft brushes; watercolour paper. Oil paints: Georgian, soft and bristle brushes, palette knife set plus an odourless cleaning agent (for the sake of your fellow students); we highly recommend you have a separate set of brushes for oils; canvas or board according to your preference. Chalk pastels: Inscribe Charcoal: Faber-Castell or Cretacolour Sketching pencils: Derwent; putty rubber; sharpener; Paintbrushes: a good range including: rigger, round, wide flat, chisel & fan; long & short-handled; soft and bristle.

Course/Workshop Booking Terms & Conditions and FAQs: Full payment is required in advance by each student - group bookings are welcome to make one group payment. Payments cannot be returned or refunded unless the activity is cancelled by Hands-on Art. Unattended workshops or classes within a purchased course: cannot be refunded, or transferred to another course or student. Each purchase is unique and can only be used once by the named recipient for the activity and date specified on the confirmation. The purchase email can be printed off or displayed on your mobile device to be redeemed at the beginning of your booked activity. Hands-on Art will not accept liability for lost purchase emails. Purchases cannot be converted into cash or transferred to another activity offered by Hands-on Art deemed of "similar value" by the purchaser or recipient. Please check your booking email to see which materials & equipment you need for your course (these are provided for workshops). Students are expected to clear up their area, joint areas and any tools, equipment & materials used during each class within the course, during the 15 minutes before the class ends. This is all part and parcel of working in a practical environment and is not the sole responsibility of the tutor when everyone has gone. Students are respectfully requested to arrive and depart on time: classes will not delay the start due to time constraints and out of courtesy to those who arrived in good time. It is not possible to stay on beyond the end of the class to "catch up" or finish off your work. Thank you for your co-operation. Courses or Workshops booked in error: please contact Hands-on Art as soon as possible and we will do our best to help. However, an admin fee applies to change dates/course/workshop. For example, Scenario A: if you book the Autumn Term afternoon course instead of the Autumn Term evening course and wish to swap your booking to the evening course: this will not be possible if, in the meantime, all places on the evening course are booked up. In this case you will receive a refund of the course fee minus a £50 admin fee. If a place is available on the Autumn Term evening course, there will be an admin fee due of £50 to make the swap, before your place is confirmed. Scenario B: if you book the Autumn Term afternoon course but meant to book the Spring Term afternoon course and wish to swap your booking to the Spring Term afternoon course, this will not be possible if, in the meantime, all places on the Spring Term afternoon course are booked up. In this case you will receive a refund of the course fee minus a £50 admin fee. If a place is available on the Spring Term afternoon course, there will be an admin fee due of £50 to make the swap, before your place is confirmed. Health & Safety: We are relying on each student to take personal and collective responsibility by absenting themselves from the Studio if: they have Covid-19 or flu symptoms, have tested positive for Covid, or have been in close contact with someone who has since tested positive for Covid-19.

Cancellation Policy: We require 6 students for the activity to go ahead. If the activity goes ahead: Activity purchase payments cannot be returned or refunded because Hands-on Art has committed to providing your activity. If the decision is made to cancel the activity by Hands-on Art Adventures: Students who have booked on will be offered i) an alternative date, ii) the choice of deferring to the next similar advertised activity, or iii) a full refund. If the activity is cancelled by external circumstances/governing or official bodies e.g. closure of the Studio by the Government due to the outbreak of a pandemic: you will be offered an alternative date for the activity only. Unattended classes within a course activity: cannot be refunded, or transferred to another course or student. If Hands-on Art Adventures cancel a class within a course activity: Students will be offered an alternative replacement date for the class. No partial refunds will be given.

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