This course is open to GCSE and A-level students (13+) and offers a rare chance to learn directly from renowned Artist and Bookbinder, Mark Cockram, a specialist in making Artist Books (artworks which take the form of a book). Mark will teach students how to use this every day form in creative and inventive ways.

Students will learn how to bind their books with a fabric quarter binding. They will be shown examples of artists work and begin to create a narrative in their piece, using collage and the book itself to create an artwork.

This course is highly adaptable and we will be encouraging students to make their artwork personal - giving ample opportunity for their book to form part of their current GCSE and A-level projects if they would like. Skills learnt will be instantly applicable to their sketchbook work, helping them to develop engaging and stimulating work at school.

Do you like chocolate eggs? We thought so… but have you ever made one from scratch?

Students will begin by learning how to temper the chocolate, before setting their eggs in professional moulds and wrapping them in foil. They will also have the chance to put together something to go inside their hollow eggs… but of course we aren’t going to tell you what: that would ruin the surprise!

Students will wrap their eggs in coloured foils before moving onto weaving baskets for their eggs to be carried in. The wonderful willow weaver, Judith Needham, will teach them how to weave brightly coloured baskets with handles. For those students who have made baskets with us before, these will be made using a different technique, creating an intricate design. Perfect for easter egg hunts on a warm Spring afternoon.

Learn to draw a portrait in the Cubist style with artist, Hayley Steedman. Like Picasso, you will learn to draw a face from every angle at once. Brightly coloured, fast paced and with fantastic results - your finished pieces will amaze and astonish.

A fun way to learn how to draw in the cubist style and an introduction to this art historical movement. Pieces will be drawn in charcoal, pastel and use collage techniques. Each student can expect to leave with a piece of which they can be proud.

Wurkshop has teamed up with Torchlight Tuition to combine our respective areas of expertise! Taking advantage of Torchlight director Toby Steedman’s extensive experience teaching creative writing and Hayley's experience with art tuition to bring you … ‘Write, Illustrate, Publish’.

Over two days from midday to 4:30pm, kids can learn key creative writing skills, with a focus on unreliable narrators, dynamic openings and new vocabulary. In combination with this, they will also illustrate their stories with Hayley's help, working with collage, print and watercolour ink drawings before learning to bind their book at the end. A truly educational and creative course!

Wurkshop sets up each year by Beverly Brook for the BCA Barnes Duck Race, to help yellow ducks entering the annual competition to look their best. We will be there again this year in the Wurkshop tent to help kids add crucial superhero capes and go-faster stripes; giving their entries the edge over the competition.

This year the BCA and Wurkshop have added the opportunity for students to enter a duck portrait for a prize in the ‘Duck Portrait Competition’.

Wurkshop are offering kids the chance to come and draw ducks at Wurkshop. A fun class, kids will draw their ducks, learning key observational drawing skills with a focus on contrast and colour. Artist, Hayley Steedman, will teach them how to draw their ducks in charcoal and pastel, creating masterpieces which will be exhibited to the public at the race and entered into the Duck Race Portrait Competition!

Join Hayley Steedman at the Wurkshop studio as she guides you through the process of block printing a duvet cover with your own design. You will learn how to turn your design into a repeat pattern and carve it from Lino before printing it onto a white, organic cotton duvet cover. You will leave with a your duvet set, complete with matching cushion covers and your carved Lino block - armed with the knowledge you need to carry on printing at home (or back at the studio by arrangement), should you wish to! It’s time to personalise your bedroom!

This course includes a washed, organic cotton single duvet set* (includes matching cushion covers.

* This can be substituted for a double duvet set if required but this will incur a small surcharge to cover the extra material costs.

Wurkshop sets up each year by Beverly Brook for the BCA Barnes Duck Race, to help yellow ducks entering the annual competition to look their best. We will be there again this year in the Wurkshop tent to help kids add crucial superhero capes and go-faster stripes; giving their entries the edge over the competition.

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Learn charcoal drawing techniques and apply them to portraiture with artist, Hayley Steedman.

At this evening class, students will look at drawing the human form, with a particular focus on drawing a portrait in charcoal from photographs. Students will learn how to achieve various effects with different types of charcoal before progressing to learn about proportion and the human figure. Students will learn how to accurately grid a photograph before drawing their selected portrait in charcoal using what they have learnt.

Join us for this 2-day summer course. You’ll find our Wurkshop tent with all our wooden easels set up in the green splendour of Barnes common, ready for a magical day of watercolour painting in the fresh air.

Painting the local landscape from life, students will learn various techniques and complete preliminary sketches before working on their final painting on prepared watercolour paper. Artists Hayley Steedman and Laura Wormell will help each student with individualised attention, ensuring that they produce the best work they can before returning to the Wurkshop studio the next day to frame their work. Laura Wormell is not only a talented landscape painter but also happens to be a professional framer and under her expert tuition, students will learn how to frame their watercolours, staining, waxing and composing their frame ready to take home and hang.

At this introduction to abstract art, join artist Hayley Steedman for an exciting morning producing a large scale abstract drawing.

An explosion of colour, students will be shown techniques for working with charcoal and pastel, different types of mark making and colour blending methods - in order to make powerful pieces of abstract work. These will be drawn on large sheets of coloured pastel paper, using high quality pigmented pastels. These will be inspired by the natural world.

Students will be shown work by abstract artists, with a focus on composition and colour. They can expect to leave with a finished piece of which they can be proud.

Learn to make a high quality skateboard from scratch, which is worthy of a piece of art.

We will teach you to shape, sand and construct your own board - with the trucks, wheels and bearings all included in the price (skateboards of this build quality typically retail at £100).

Next, learn to transform your plain skateboard deck into a work of art, ready to hang on your wall!
You will be shown how to design and cut a bespoke stencil, before being introduced to various spray paint techniques with professional graffiti artist, Danny Mendoza. You will use these to transform the underside of your deck into a work of art.

Great for skateboarders and fans of urban art - this course will teach key techniques for achieving various styles, as well as being introduced to the work of urban artists.