Adult Visual Arts
Our studio based courses provide a supportive environment for creatives of all levels, from beginners to more advanced artists. You’ll work alongside others who share your interests, fostering a community where ideas and techniques can be exchanged. All courses are tutored by experienced teachers and all materials are provided
Draw, Paint, Print
Wednesday 10-12pm
Wednesday 7-9pm
A multi media course developing skills across a range of art disciplines, including drawing, painting, print and collage.
We will encourage you to explore different processes whilst providing materials and technical guidance. You will be working alongside other people in a relaxed and positive environment.
The course is fully tutored with the emphasis on the student developing their own personal creative voice. Our studio is a space where you can feel supported as, alongside others, you learn and develop core skills
Tutor: Sarah Gamble
£215
Textiles: Surface Design through Printing & Dyeing
Wednesday 1-3pm
A course exploring and developing creative skills within the discipline of Art Textiles. We will work using a range of materials and approaches to create textile surfaces, through the use of both printing and dyeing, exploring varied processes and techniques within them. The use of stitch and other textural process will be used to enhance the surfaces as they evolve.
You will work alongside other people in a relaxed and positive environment creating several small exploratory samples and surfaces. These will form the basis of an ongoing larger contemporary textile piece which will evolve as the course progresses.
We will look to contemporary textiles practitioners to inform our own practice as well as learn from each other as the course progresses.
Our courses are aimed at students of all levels
Tutor: Sarah Gamble
£215
Two New Painting Courses
Tutor: Emma-Jayne Emmott
Painting is a journey full of unexpected challenges, and it is through mistakes, corrections, and the process of resolution that your skills will grow. These two courses will encourages you to embrace these moments and enjoy the creative process.
Still Life
Tuesdays 10-12
Still Life – seeing beauty in the ordinary. This course focuses on the foundational elements of painting, including drawing, underpainting, colour mixing, tonal values, and brushwork. You’ll work from direct observation, building your skills through a combination of developmental studies and completed paintings. Throughout the course, you’ll look at art history, drawing inspiration from still life painters, from the Dutch Masters to modern and contemporary artists.
£215
Experimental: Ways into Abstraction
Tuesdays 1-3pm
This course will help you create systems that open up pathways into experimental painting and abstraction. The work will be generated through hands-on exploration, with the class being fast-paced and filled with practical demonstrations. The sessions are designed to push you beyond traditional painting techniques, encouraging you to explore new ways of thinking about form and composition, and engage with the physicality of painting. We will explore colour mixing and various application methods whilst looking and learning from abstract artists.
£215
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“I have attended classes for several years now with Ilkley Art School. Each session varies in terms of materials, models and poses and we are encouraged to try new techniques based on a short introduction to established artists. It’s always interesting, fun and inspiring”
“The course has really changed my life”
A students poem
“The Art Studio, This thin place, This liminal space, This living, ancient temple of Divine creation. Sheets of paper fall like waves Carrying Venus to shore. Through chalk-dust clouds Mythic heroes emerge Shrouded in softness. I am held aloft by many hands To better see the Golden columns of light; A gift from the gods”
Louise