You can hold a conversation in Spanish but there are skills that need improving and vocabulary that needs increasing.

This is an introduction to Spanish for learners who have no prior knowledge of the language, or who have picked up a few Spanish phrases and want to expand on this.

Expand your knowledge to converse more freely in a wider range of topics to suit your interests.

You can hold simple conversations in Spanish but there are skills that need improving and vocabulary that needs increasing.

You can hold simple conversations in Spanish but there are skills that need improving and vocabulary that needs increasing.

This is a chance to explore some of South Lakeland’s superb scenery at a photographer’s pace.

This course develops your confidence in speaking, revises and expands aspects of grammar and vocabulary.

This course is for advanced students with a very good knowledge of spoken French.

This course focuses on conversational German.

Our Brewery Community Choir offers you the chance to enjoy singing in a relaxed and fun environment.

Explore a variety of techniques, including lino printing, monotype, drypoint etching and collagraph with Brewery tutor artist and printmaker Penny Hunt.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop using oil paint in a more experimental way.

This ten-week course is designed to help you gain experience and understanding of working with porcelain clay. The purity and translucent quality of porcelain is matched by its inherent limitations in workability.

This course opens the door to the wide range of surface treatments available for ceramic work at The Brewery and suggests ways of integrating them into your pieces. The aim is to give you more control over the finish of your work.

An informal and relaxed course during which you will develop your keyboard skills.

Want to learn how to use a film camera? Interested in developing your own prints? On this brand new course, professional photographer Tim Murray will guide you all the way from learning the functions on a film camera and improving your photographic compositions to the printing process and producing your own prints in the Brewery Darkroom.

This course is for those who have already completed 4-5 years’ study, have an ‘O’ -level/ GCSE or can express themselves in the present, past and future tenses.

Explore expressive mark making and develop ways to make interesting and unusual marks. Learn how to use different materials and layer these in exciting ways.

This course is for students who have studied French for at least 5-6 years, have a rusty A-level or lots of experience of the language. It will be run “tout en français!”

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model.

An opportunity for people with some experience to develop drawing and/or painting direct from a life model.

This course is for students who have studied French for 3-4 years, have a rusty O level/GCSE or some experience of the language.

This class has just completed its second year. If you feel you grasp the basics in terms of verb conjugation in the present tense and passato prossimo, have a basis in everyday vocabulary, can get by at a basic level in everyday situations and wish to build upon all of this, then this course should suit you.

A relaxed and informal course dedicated to discovering the secrets and stories in 20th-century art and linking how they relate to the present day.

Learn to sew and make garments using patterns that you will draft from your own body measurements.

This course aims to give you the freedom and confidence to begin writing (or go on writing) whatever it is you really want to write. Suitable for anyone who’s ever had the urge to put pen to paper.

Discover how to make felt in all its forms. From making vessels and bowls to ‘Nuno’ and needlefelting, you’ll have the opportunity to try a broad range of techniques and develop your skills in this versatile medium.

If you are at a stage where you would like to extend your knowledge of more idiomatic language, look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure, and in doing so revise and clarify some of the basics, this is the course for you.

Learn how to paint with this exciting flexible medium, focussing on paint handling and mixing colour.

This course is for absolute beginners or those wishing to start again from scratch.

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills.

If you have little or no previous screenprinting experience this new course will get you started! You will learn how to screenprint your own design and go through the whole process from the design stage to pulling the squeegee!

Learn to play the ukulele, a fun and accessible instrument. With its small size and soft strings, it is easy to learn a few chords and strumming patterns that will enable you to play many well-known songs for your own pleasure.

Observing from life is the perfect discipline to improve drawing skills. This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting in the skills through the discipline of portraiture.

This course is for those who have already completed 5 years’ study, have a rusty 0 level or some experience of the language.

Do you have memories to share, a story to tell, a chapter hidden in a drawer or poems in a notebook?

This course will provide opportunities for students to develop portraiture, exploring different techniques, processes and methods to capture character and likeness, using both primary and secondary source material.

This course is for those who have already completed 2 years’ study, and have some experience of the language.

Create prints through the exciting processes of etching. Using copper sulphate and aluminium plates, Karen Lester will guide you through the processes of plate preparation, etching, inking and printing.

This workshop co-insides with Catherine Macdiarmid’s exhibition ‘Personal’, in the Sugar Store Gallery. On it, you will gain an incite into Catherine’s artistic processes while composing your own unique portrait.

An opportunity to explore the technique of Nuno Felt Making. Fine patterns are drawn with fleece onto a silk chiffon or muslin background, when felted together a subtle, delicate fabric is created.

Collagraph is a technique where prints are made from a collage; marks made on card with added materials which are then inked, wiped and run through a press onto dampened paper.

There is something magical about the combination of Indigo dye and Shibori techniques. In this workshop you will create your own indigo hand dyed fabric by stitching, wrapping and pleating the fabric.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop using oil paint in a more experimental way.

As used by many prominent printmakers today, discover how to create prints using Collagraph printmaking techniques. Making collages on card plates, you will explore the simple processes using wet and dry techniques as well as cutting to create your design.

Further develop your acrylic painting skills and gain confidence, exploring techniques and mixing colour effectively.

Develop your observational drawing skills in this introductory course, which takes you through some basic techniques and theories.

This course is for players with some experience and prior knowledge of chord shapes, strumming and picking patterns (either on ukulele or guitar).

Gesso has a wide application for every water-based media, acrylics, watercolour, gouache and inks.

This unique workshop is led by Theresa Taylor, one of the artists exhibiting in the show ‘Spatiality’ in the Brewery’s Sugar Store Gallery in Spring 2020. You will have the opportunity to create experimental layered prints combining drypoint and monoprint techniques.

Willow tipis set delightful vertical accents to your garden, whilst being versatile and practical.

Create prints through the exciting processes of etching. Using copper sulphate and aluminium plates, Karen Lester will guide you through the processes of plate preparation, etching, inking and printing. Suitable for those new to etching and for those with some experience.

Spend a relaxing day with Greenhouse Floristry creating beautiful hand-tied flower bouquets, followed by the opportunity to paint your creations guided by artist Annie Turner.

Learn different techniques on how to create waves, water, paint, rocks and beaches with local artist Thuline de Cock.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to practice and develop watercolour skills working direct from a portrait model.

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills. 

An introductory course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work with an opportunity to try throwing pottery throwing on the wheel and learn hand building skills.

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model.

For those with some experience of watercolour, this short course focuses on techniques and approaches to painting landscapes.

This course explores further approaches to drawing, encouraging freer looser ways to work using exercises and experimenting with a range of media to create marks; watersoluble drawing materials, chalk, graphite sticks, charcoal and coloured paper.

Observing from life is the perfect discipline to improve drawing skills. This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

This course will provide an opportunity for people with some drawing and painting practice to develop their painting skills through the discipline of portraiture.

Combine traditional drawing methods using inks with more experimental approaches to get to grips with this versatile medium.

Sketch outdoors, finding inspiration at the beautiful location of the National Trust’s St Catherine’s Estate near Windermere.

Hone your camera skills and capture the beauty of the woodlands on the St Catherine’s estate near Windermere. For those with some basic knowledge of their camera who love being outdoors.

Are you new to digital photography and wandering how to get the most from your camera? Through a mixture of theory, demonstrations, exercises and assignments you will begin to master the controls of your digital camera.

This course aims to help you play your favourite songs by explaining some of the basics that are often not clear when tackling songs downloaded from guitar websites or found in guitar songbooks.

During this creative one day course, you will learn a number of techniques in order to produce beautiful pieces of art painted on silk.