Live Events, Exhibitions & Arts Classes in SW London
Visual Arts & Crafts Courses & Workshops
Weekly Classes / Courses
(to end of July 2021, or as listed, in day and time order)
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- Botanical Art – Watercolour… booked up
- Creative Embroidery
- Creative Sketchbook booked up
- Exploring Painting with Acrylics booked up
- Find your Creative Voice – Mixed… booked up
- Life Drawing (int./adv.) booked up
- Portrait Drawing (June) booked up
- Sketching and Painting in Landscape booked up
- Watercolour in Practice booked up
- Watercolour in Practice (int./adv.) booked up
- Mondays
- 10am – 1 pm
- Starts:
- 19 April 2021
- Duration:
- 5 weeks (no class 3 May)
- Mondays
- 10am – 1 pm
- Starts:
- 7 June 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
This course is open to everybody who would like to learn the techniques of creative hand embroidery. You do not need to be able to draw to enjoy this course.
Techniques of transferring images onto different textiles will be shown and you will learn a variety of styles for hand embroidery. The design element of the course will encourage you to explore images for stitch inspiration from your own photographs, found images or from drawings. You will be able to produce attractive hand embroidered textile images with simple designs that can be framed and presented in decorative ways.
- Tutor:
- Sophie Long
- More info.:
- April-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- June-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost (Apr):
- £138 (excluding materials)
- Cost (Jun):
- £165 (excluding materials)
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
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- Mondays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 19 April 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks (no class 3 or 31 May)
- Mondays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 14 June 2021 – fully booked
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
This course is designed to help beginners and improvers listen and trust their own intuition, turn off the noise of social media and self-doubt. Open up and just be creative. On our journey we will design and make lots of exciting images whilst exploring multimedia techniques such as mark making, printing, painting, collage and colour planning to create an A3 artwork.
- Tutor:
- Nicolene Grigg
- More info.:
- April-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- June-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
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- Tuesdays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 8 June 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
Course project: Summer Drawing With a Travel Sketchbook
Creative Sketchbook is a drawing course with a mixed media approach. Sketchbooks are used widely as a reference tool by art students and artists alike and are essential to develop your creativity. Learn how to use a sketchbook effectively and develop approaches for recording your own art activities.
The project for this course teaches you how to use a sketchbook outdoors to record urban and rural landscapes, people, animals and objects. You will learn a range of approaches in different media and how to use a sketchbook confidently in a public environment and during travel journeys. Weather permitting we will draw outside for one or two sessions.
- Tutor:
- Emily Burton
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
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- Wednesdays
- 10am – 1pm
- Starts:
- 21 April 2021
- Duration:
- 12 weeks (no class 2 June)
Course project: Motion and Multiples
A project-led course exploring different ways of understanding and depicting the human form with a range of long and short poses. A life model is present for all sessions.
The project for this course is Motion and Multiples and will include drawing the moving figure, depicting sequences and groups of figures inspired by famous artworks, and understanding a pose from several viewpoints.
A variety of approaches will be covered ranging from carefully considered analytical drawing to experimental gestural methods.
Life drawing experience is required. Not suitable for beginners (as it is intermediate/advanced level).
- Tutor:
- Emily Burton
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
- Wednesdays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 21 April 2021 – fully booked
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
- Wednesdays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 9 June 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
A course which focuses on drawing the head – developing a greater understanding of proportions and capturing character. You will learn about the architecture of the head, neck and facial features and how the underlying structure influences the surface form. By the end of the course you should be able to depict the head from different viewpoints using a selection of different materials and approaches.
Due to social distancing restrictions we will not be working from a portrait model for this course. However, the course is aimed at preparing you to draw intelligently from a real person and will be focused on understanding the head as a three-dimensional structure. Source material will include skulls, carefully selected photographs and the work of other artists.
- Tutor:
- Emily Burton
- More info.:
- April-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- June-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)(to come)
- Cost:
- no more places
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
- Thursdays
- 10.30am – 1pm
- Starts:
- 22 April 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks (no session 20 May)
Course project: Exploring Painting With Acrylics
Explore acrylic techniques in their widest form including impasto, texture mediums and glazing.
Designed for all levels, core skills will be covered plus how to develop a painting from first steps through to traditional styles as well as more modern painting styles.
- Tutor:
- Bob Meecham
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- Contact:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
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- Thursdays
- 10.30am – 1pm
- Starts:
- 17 June 2021
- Duration:
- 5 weeks
Course project: Exploring Landscape Painting
Explore Landscape sketching and painting techniques including both studio studies and ourdoor work.
Designed for all levels, core skills will be covered on how to develop preliminary sketches into paintings.
- Tutor:
- Bob Meecham
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- Contact:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
- Thursdays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 22 April 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
Course project: Creative Concepts in Watercolour
The aim of this course is to develop solid watercolour skills whilst looking at the practice and themes of contemporary as well as traditional artists. The course will look in further detail at 2-3 artists during each module and encourage students to adopt a creative thinking practice with their own work. We are looking for this project at the watercolours of Eric Ravilious and Emil Nolde.
Ravilious’ approach involves using a barely moist brush and building the strokes up in layers. It offers excellent scope for exploring varied mark-making, composing an image and optical colour-mixing. In contrast to Ravilious carefully planned and rigorously composed method, Nolde’s work involves an instinctive free-flowing wet-in-wet approach using varied consistencies of paint and unconventional compositions.
This exciting course provides you with an element of art historical reference whilst learning watercolour skills.
Suitable for people with at least a little drawing and watercolour experience.
- Tutor:
- Emily Burton
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
- Thursdays
- 2 – 4.30pm
- Starts:
- 10 June 2021
- Runs over:
- 6 weeks
Course Project: Creative Concepts in Watercolour
The aim of this course is to develop solid watercolour skills whilst looking at the practice and themes of contemporary as well as traditional artists. The course will look in further detail at 2 artists during each module and encourage students to adopt a creative thinking practice with their own work.
The artists referenced are William Tillyer and Rebecca Hind, and the course will allow you to become familiar with their conceptual influence and how they can inform your own work.
An inherent feature of watercolour is translucency and freshness. You will develop a good understanding of colour theory by applying glazing methods and by overlaying washes. This exciting course provides you with an element of art historical reference whilst learning watercolour skills.
This course is suitable for intermediate/advanced students.
- Tutor:
- Emily Burton
- More info.:
- course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
- Fridays
- 10am – 12.30pm
- Starts:
- 23 April 2021 – fully booked
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
- Fridays
- 10am – 12.30pm
- Starts:
- 11 June 2021
- Duration:
- 6 weeks
The aim of the course is to develop your painting and drawing techniques in Botanical Art with an emphasis on accurate depiction. Flowers, foliage and plants are observed whilst Marcia teaches through step-by-step demonstrations. You will learn through practical exercises and in exchanging ideas with your tutor and other students. Marcia Hughes will also encourage you to work towards taking part in exhibitions.
This course is suitable for people with some experience of botanical art.
- Tutor:
- Marcia Hughes
- More info.:
- April-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- June-start course fact sheet (includes C-19 safety measures)
- Cost:
- no places left
- To book:
- 020 8977 7558 or LAC Education
- Venue:
- address, travel options
Workshops
(to end of July 2021, or as listed, in date and time order)
All the workshops and short courses have now finished.
Contact Us…
- Telephone: 020 8977 7558
- Email: LAC Office
- Or contact specific staff member.
Opening Hours
- An event or class / workshop: see its listing in Events or Classes & workshops.
- The Centre & gift shop: from 12 April, open to general visitors… Monday – Friday 9.30am – 12.30pm.
- Box Office: see under How to Book.
Wheelchair Users
- Accessible events & classes: marked with the wheelchair symbol.
- For advice on parking: please telephone LAC Office in advance
Hearing Assistance
- Main hall: an induction loop is installed.
Food and Drink
- Café / bar: open for most events; check event listing. For our fairs caterer Enjoy! operates the café, serving tasty home-made food as Enjoy!@The Landmark. What's available at the bar / café.
- Pre-show supper: available for events marked supper. See event listing for menu and booking deadline. Catering by Enjoy!.
Our Address
Landmark Arts Centre Ferry Road Teddington TW11 9NN United Kingdom
(in South West London, between Twickenham, Richmond, and Kingston-upon-Thames).
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Travel Options
- Train: Waterloo to Teddington (approx. 35 minutes), then just over 10 minutes' signposted walk
- Bus: R68, 281, 285 all stop outside the Centre (‘Teddington Lock’): Stop M across the road, Stop U on the same side, or Stop Y nearby on Kingston Road. Also, 33 via Waldegrave Road, Stop A or Stop B opposite (both ‘Teddington Library’). Bus spider maps.
- Tube: District line to Richmond and then bus R68 (above)
- Cycle: on-site parking for up to 12 bicycles
- Car: no parking on site but free parking in surrounding streets.
How to Book…
- Online: where indicated.
- By phone: Box Office open… Monday – Friday 9.30am – 5pm …and from 1pm on the day of weekend performances. Telephone bookings (card only): 020 8977 7558.
- By post: state the event and number of tickets required and enclose an SAE and cheque payable to ‘Landmark Arts Centre’ to our address.
Please note…
- Booking fees: if you wish to have your tickets posted and haven’t supplied an SAE, a 50p postage fee applies.
- Refund & Exchange Policy: no refund of tickets or class bookings will be made unless the event or class is full and we are able to re-sell your ticket/class place, in which case an admin fee of £1 will be deducted from the amount refunded.
Concessions, Offers…
- Concessions: available to LAC Members and others as noted for the event, workshop or class.
- Gift vouchers Looking for a gift? Why not buy them Landmark Gift Vouchers! £5, £10 and £20 vouchers are available and can be used for concert tickets, workshops and courses.
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