Create your own unique piece in our fully-equipped jewellery space.

Using skills and knowledge gained in the introductory course, you will be able to develop your confidence and work with other members of the group, to ‘unpack’ and discuss a range of famous and less familiar artworks.

If you have a guitar and have learned a few chords, this course will assist you in putting your knowledge to good use and to start enjoying playing.

The benefits of yoga are manifold and include improving relaxation, strength, posture, flexibility and sleep patterns.

FREE Yoga taster session

This course will provide students with the opportunity to develop painting direct from a life model using oils.

Free Dance Fit Taster Session

Dance Fit is a fun, aerobic dance class that you can take at your own pace. Develop strength, stamina and overall fitness whilst moving to a variety of music.

This course will give participants the opportunity to further explore the medium of book illustration.

You don’t need an expensive camera to produce some beautiful images of your holiday in the Lakes.

Tutor Sara Dennis | Fee £99 | 5 weeks A contemporary twist on a…

Make beautiful decorative items for the festive season including table runners, Christmas stockings and decorations

For players with some experience of chord shapes, strumming and picking patterns either on ukulele or guitar

Use acrylics to paint images of trees and autumn scenes

Illustrate your favourite recipe in watercolours and turn your design into your own illustrated tea towel

Pick up a brush and whether you are a complete beginner, or have some painting experience, this workshop will help develop your artistic skills.

Using magical wet felting techniques, be inspired by the natural beauty of Langdale and create a fantastic felted landscape using wool and yarns.

A day course for those new to etching and those with some previous experience

Fancy creating something different for a loved one’s Christmas present this year?

Capture the delicate beauty of porcelain in our Christmas workshop

This is a course for those who love nature and who wish to explore drawing further with a wide range of media.

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.

Ideal for those with a basic knowledge of their camera who want to learn more

This course focuses on conversational German.

Designed to strengthen your portfolio of work and overall visual style.

Explore the natural world during this new course with Thuline de Cock. Develop your skills in painting animals, landscapes, flowers, and more.

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

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

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

Learn how to paint land, sea, tree and city-scapes using acrylic, watercolour and pastel with renowned local artist Thuline de Cock.

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

Explore your creativity using a range of art techniques such as masking and resist methods for inks and paints, mark making for pattern and texture, paper cuts, pen and wash, collage etc.

This course opens the door to the wide range of surface treatments available for ceramic work.

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

A brand new course with professional photographer Tim Murray

Learn to describe your interests and leisure, express your ideas with confidence on a range of topics, talk about the present, past, future and conditional events.

Explore expressive mark making and develop ways to make interesting and unusual marks.

This course for students with a good knowledge of spoken French will be run “tout en français!”

Always wanted to learn French but never got round to it? Start from scratch with our new beginners’ course in Windermere.

If you would like to continue extending your knowledge of more idiomatic language and look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure, this is the course for you.

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.

If you have completed a first year in Adult education or have an elementary knowledge of Italian, which you would like to build upon, this is the course for you.

This course will enable you to communicate in Spanish at a basic level in a range of everyday situations.

Delve into the fascinating world of book illustration.

Explore some of the many printmaking techniques through this course.

Learn to sew and make garments using patterns, or make accessories and household items for yourselves or for gifts.

Learn how to create unique pieces of textile art, using a variety of different media

Look in greater detail at aspects of grammar and sentence structure

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

Using chalk pastels, develop application and blending techniques further to create paintings using photographs and still life references of winter themes.

For absolute beginners or those wishing to start again from scratch

Learn to play the ukulele, a fun and accessible instrument

Be bolder with watercolours and develop skills to create depth

Learn how to screenprint your own design and go through the whole process from the design stage to pulling the squeegee!

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

An opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting in the skills through the discipline of portraiture

Explore the writer’s toolbox from simile to suspense with the intention of producing original work of your own

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

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.

A day course for those new to etching and those with some previous experience

Explore using washes, drawing with inks, and using acrylic paint with rags and card to create your paintings

Learn how to design and build textures and interest to create a collagraph plate and then how to ink and print a small edition from it.

An ideal introduction to needle felting, demonstrating how you can sculpt with fleece to make blackbirds and their nests

A day of hand embroidery using goldwork techniques on boiled wool to create a beautiful silver tup.

This intensive short course will give you valuable tools and techniques to shape your masterpiece

Experience the healing and transformational benefit of Sacred Meditation

Have developed your mixed media skills using a wide variety of techniques and media enabling you to create a series of your own mixed media work.

Discover how to make vessels and bowls, bags and purses using wet felting techniques.

Combine drawing materials with your watercolour painting to discover further possibilities with this wonderful medium

Explores ways to get the best from your watercolour palette, helping you to make effective choices when selecting colours.

The purity and translucent quality of porcelain is matched by its inherent limitations in workability.

Give that threadbare chair a bit of TLC!

A day course for those new to etching and those with some previous experience

Enhance your home by designing and creating your own stunning lampshade using some simple printmaking techniques

Learn some traditional principles of willow and hedgerow weaving

This course will take you through a complete digital workflow from the basic file created in the camera through to the final pigment print

Learn some of the key skills of a sculptor (Pinch, slab & coil) and in the process, you will create your very own masterpiece that you can be proud of.

Are you new to digital photography and wandering how to get the most from your camera?

If you have always wanted to put your words (or someone else’s) to music but were not sure how to begin, then this workshop will help you get started.

Develop portrait painting in oils, working direct from a model.

This is an introductory Pottery course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work.

The course explores the practical and creative applications of clay and covers a wide variety of traditional pottery techniques.

An opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop drawing direct from a life model

Create pieces of art using a number of textile techniques, felt making and needle felting and machine embroidery

Create drawings using different approaches to develop freer, more expressive drawing styles in response to observation of a range of subjects

Start to work with watercolour paint, exploiting its beautiful properties, using big washes and brushes to build layers of colour

This course will provide an opportunity for people of all abilities, including beginners, to develop their drawing and painting skills

Tutor Catherine MacDiarmid | £69 | 5 weeks This course will provide an opportunity…

This is an introductory Pottery course for beginners and returning students who wish to develop their work.

Paint flowers/blossoms in acrylic and finish off with some pastel.

Discover the creative possibilities of making art and craft from and in the natural environment at the Footprint, Windermere.