The following paid-for courses and workshops are delivered directly by our studio holders. All workshop tutors have completed a risk assessment and are complying with Lewisham Arthouse’s Covid-19 protocols. Please contact relevant individual tutors listed below for details of the specific measures and precautions put in place.

Stephen Palmer has been running life drawing classes at Lewisham Arthouse since 1996. Most of the sessions are suitable for all abilities including beginners. Regular classes are held Monday daytimes and evenings. There are also occasional Saturday and Sunday sessions.

For further information and booking please visit: https://drawinglah.com

Current courses: 3-day Weekend Throwing, Hand Building and Glazing Workshops, 5 Day Summer Courses and Evening Studio Pottery Classes.

For further information and booking please visit: www.shirleystewart.co.uk

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No experience is needed to be creative and enjoy Nina’s pottery courses. Beginners and those with more experience are encouraged to use the space to be creative through a range of techniques including hand building and throwing. She provides demonstrations on throwing, sculpture, hand building, glazing and is experienced in helping other artists with their ceramic projects. Current courses: Tuesday Studio Pottery, Weekend Workshops, Taster Sessions, One to One Sessions.

For further information and booking please visit: www.potteryschool.co.uk

Rosey Prince has taught etching and monoprinting classes in adult education for nearly 20 years at Community Education Lewisham and more recently at City Lit Institute.  Printing without a press is an informal and friendly workshop style class adapted to suit individual students from beginners to experienced artists.  The classes are on Wednesday evenings 7-9.30pm and Thursday mornings 10am-12.30pm and include monoprinting, woodcuts, lino and relief printing. 

Email: rosey_prints@hotmail.com

For further information and booking
www.roseyprince.com

with Arthouse Artist Alison Day.
Monday 1.00 – 2.30 p.m. 28th April – 30th June.

Introduction to botanical illustration.

Topics covered are: plant identification, graphic skills ( pencil, ink, charcoal, use of colour either with watercolour, pencils, pastels, collage. Plus a brief introduction to the history and development of the use of botanical illustration to the modern day.)

All welcome .No experience needed.
Participants must provide paper/sketchbook and drawing equipment and some materials.

Course fee £125/115 concession (includes some materials and equipment))

Enrolment and information contact Alison.day54@gmail.com

With Arthouse Artist Alison Day
Beginners / general interest
Wed 5.30 -7.00 p.m. 30th April- 2nd July

This course is an Introduction to Analogue photography, covering camera skills, film processing, and essential darkroom practice.

Own camera needed. Student also needs to buy film and negative bags.
Course includes test paper for trial printing and practice. Plus all equipment and chemicals. N.b.2 cameras are available for hire for details contact alison.day54@gmail.com.

Course fee £125/119 concession. Plus small fee for use of the darkroom.

Join Arthouse Artist Alison Day for a new term
Tue 4.30 – 6.00 29th April – 1st July

This is an afterschool art club for young people which covers a range of 2D drawing and painting skills plus a range of topics and subject matter.

The aim is to facilitate the young person to both learn and experiment with the ideas and content of each session.

Collaboration and sharing is encouraged and the class provides a welcoming and safe environment in which to develop the young person’s creativity.

Some materials are provided; the young person needs their own sketch book, some pencils, paints and a brush.

Course fee £125/110 concessions
Please contact
alison.day54@gmail.com
for bookings!

A summer project in partnership with Clarion Housing, providing children on the Leybridge Estate, Lewisham. The weekly outdoor sessions include creative masterclasses, and building structures and from imaginary dwellings to abstract sculpture. The participants are encouraged to explore different artistic techniques, and to develop ideas and projects throughout the summer.

For more info on this project visit www.instagram.com/makingworks

Image: credit Laura X Carlé

Lewisham Art House’s ‘FLOWER POWER’ project, generously funded by Brockley Assembly, kick started an on-going process of art based social engagement and care for our environment. Free ‘Flower Power’ workshops and events addressed complex issues surrounding the relationship between communities and their local environments.

Image: credit Elise Rose

100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the pub quiz Not Only Women Only brought people together to test their knowledge of the ‘second sex.’ Attracting over 60 participants from across the borough and beyond, the quiz was devised by members Sophie Chapman, Kerri Jefferis and Fanny Aboulker and used donated art-based prizes to raise nearly £200 for Sisters Uncut – a direct action group campaigning to end all domestic and gender based violence.
The event took place at The Telegraph at the Earl of Derby as part of Telegraph Hill Festival.

Image: credit Sophie le Roux.

A two-day Drop-in family workshop held at Lewisham Arthouse exploring the silhouette as an accessible and unintimidating approach to portraiture. Participants were given the use of a silhouette booth and a simple mechanical device to produce vivid miniature portraits. The workshop culminated in a public presentation of the work created in our Project Space.

Kindly supported by London Borough of Lewisham

Image: credit Alex Forsey

A series of Saturday workshops held in our Project Space, transformed into a pop-up café for six weeks. The workshops included: Geodesic Fun: build a Dome, Family Silhouette Workshop, Hi Tea: cardboard cakes, Make a Butterfly Mosaic, Story Telling and Kidetopia: Film & Quiz for kids

Image: credit Laura X Carlé

Families were invited to create a collaborative jungle scene, which grew over 2 days of our open studios event.

Image: credit Laura X Carlé

Led by studio members visitors were invited to design and produce their very own racquet using a variety of materials to cover and decorate their creations.

Kindly supported by London Borough of Lewisham

Image: credit Amanda Francis

Much debate and contention arose around the removal of a well-known landmark from Deptford high Street. Participants were encouraged to leave their thoughts on a full-scale replica of the (in)famous Deptford Anchor, exhibited in the Southbank Centre over one weekend.

Kindly supported by Southbank Centre

Image: credit Laura X Carlé

The Track Project was a series of four workshops exploring movement in response to the 2012 Olympics. This was an opportunity for young people to work with professional artists to develop and strengthen creative skills, working in a variety of media, including: animation, drawing, dance, sculpture and sound.

Kindly supported by London Borough of Lewisham

Image: credit Alma Tischler Wood

Make a face was a one-day workshop coinciding with Brockley Food Fair at Friendly Gardens, Deptford. During the event participants made work inspired by ‘foodie’ renaissance painter Arcimboldo, creating self-portraits using paper plates, collaged dried foods and vegetable prints.

Image: credit Anonymous

Simply Red & Green was devised to raise awareness about Luxmore Gardens, a slightly under-loved green space adjacent to Lewisham Arthouse. Members of the public were invited to help paint objects and material red and then adorn the park, turning it into a giant installation. This worked visually to create a striking contrast to the predominant natural green of the space. There was a great turn out – with music and games as well as art.

Kindly funded by Brockley Assembly with support from London Borough of Lewisham Council

Image: credit Sara Willet

A week-long drop-in drawing event (accompanying exhibition Mark of Action) provided a giant drawing environment for visitors to make their own marks in a variety of media. The workshop and the exhibition was part of the Big Draw Festival.

Kindly supported by National Lottery and Help a London Child

Image: credit Amanda Francis

Groovin’ High was a series of five workshops exploring the work and issues surrounding contemporary Black Artists’ with local primary school St James Hatcham. The project culminated with a showcase of their work, as well as a selection of artwork by secondary school pupils from Stratford School in East London.

Kindly supported by London Borough of Lewisham

Image: credit Janine Nelson