Welcome to Home Studio - our hub for all online, pre-recorded courses. Here you will find a selection of online courses ranging from a day to a week in length (to complete) with a variety of subjects. Some of our one day courses were filmed in our first National Lockdown in 2020 and so have an 'at home' feel offering you the chance to spend a day try out new approaches and ways of thinking. Our week long modules have around 4 hours of recorded content that you can spread over a week, or longer if you wish!

After purchasing a course, you will have full access for 12 months, allowing you to return anytime you want to revisit the course. Please allow up to 24 hours (it is often much quicker than this - 1 to 2 hours) for the booking to go through and receive you access link.

Do get in touch if you have any questions about any of the course! Click on the images below to access a fact sheet about each course before purchasing!

A wee taster video!  Take a look, and then have a look below to see if anything takes your fancy!

The  Paintshed is our latest online offering!  Comprising of 10 "visual podcast" videos of 20 minutes in length covering everything from Exploring Colour, The Importance of Research, Hitting the Wall, Considering Scale and much more in order to help you get the most out of your studio time!  We have also complied a series of 'useful video demonstrations' from our Creative Online Retreat, recorded in lockdown, in order to give you lots of inspiration!  You'll find over 5 Hours of videos covering everything from printing, to mixed media and lots of projects to explore!  The Paintshed Package allows you unlimited access to all videos.

Designed as the perfect bit of support and encouragement for your practice!
10 'Visual Podcasts' - 
Making a Routine, Warming up, Importance of Research, Making Time to Play, Exploring Colour, Considering Composition, Hitting the Wall, Scaling Up, Materials, Keeping Going

£120

MEMORYSCAPES  1 - ABSTRACTION THROUGH WALKING
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire
​£40

This workshop will guide you through the process of abstraction in response to remembered feelings and visual information gained through walking. You will learn how to make a sensory response to the environment and to use colour and mark as expression. From tuning in your visual and emotive mind when walking, to sensory drawings, colour studies and final pieces - this course will arm you with the tools to explore a whole world of abstraction. You can complete it in a day, or over several days - whatever works best for you!
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 MEMORYSCAPES 2 - GARDEN DIARIES
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire
​£40

This workshop is the second in the Memoryscapes series - but don’t worry, you don’t need to have done the first to do the second! This is a stand alone course. Taking a walk in the garden as a starting point, this course will focus on being present, being observant, and considering colour, feeling and movement. It will culminate in making an abstract painting based on the walk through the garden space.  Don’t worry if you don’t have your own garden space - you could use a public garden, park, or even a woodland walk!
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BRINGING YOUR SKETCHBOOKS TO LIFE
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire
​£40

Are you bored by your sketchbooks and want to turn them into exciting little Artworks in their own right?!  Well look no further! Bringing Your Sketchbooks to Life will guide you through how to make a simple sketchbook, how to create exciting surfaces to work on, how to respond to those surfaces, and all the other things you can add to make your sketchbooks page turningly good! A fresh approach to working in sketchbooks, sure to ignite inspiration!
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EXPRESSIVE FLOWER PAINTING
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire
£40

This workshop is about using simple beginnings to build exciting, dynamic pieces of work that respond to the beauty and energy of flower forms.  From building surfaces, to layering marks and colour, this workshop will help you respond intuitively and emotively to a floral subject matter.  You will explore a variety of mixed media process in the course and will be armed with ideas to take forward into new works. 
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ABSTRACTING STILL LIFE
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire 
​£40

​Ever wondered how to start and abstracted painting?!  In this course we will look at how to take a simple still life set up, and turn it into an exciting abstracted piece of work! Beginning with observation and drawing, we will then start manipulating the drawings in order to find abstract values and forms, before introducing colour and mark in order to make exciting, unique pieces of work.
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COLOUR MASTERCLASS
Tutor - Jemma Derbyshire
£40

This workshop will guide you through both the theoretical and practical aspects of colour mixing and understanding. It will look at how to use just 6 colours to create a huge array of hues and tones, including how to mix black and grey from colour. This course can act as an essential guide for colour understanding. 
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PLANTS AND NATURAL FORMS
Tutors - Jemma Derbyshire & Robin Wu
£120

In this module, we will use natural forms as a starting point for exploring the possibilities of drawing, composition, surface, mark and abstraction! With simple beginnings, we will first engage in looking at and responding to our subject, before then letting it lead us into new and dynamic directions.  We will look at building surfaces, responding to your own drawing, and how to generate lots of ideas to take forward into mixed media and abstraction processes!  Using plant life and natural forms, we will find structure, form and shape that we can use in new and innovative ways! 
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INTERIOR SPACES
Tutors - Jemma Derbyshire & Robin Wu
​£120

In this module we will explore the beauty found in unassuming, domestic interior spaces. From Kitchen cupboards, to stairways and attics, we will ask you to 're-look' at the space around you.  Lighting and atmosphere are the focuses for this module, and so we will consider these elements in relation to colour and tone, while also exploring image format and composition. This course will take you from making small scale sketches, to tonal drawings, understanding and mixing colour all the way through to making a final painting. Get ready to be a tourist in your own home!  Pack your camera and your notebook as we head off on a journey round your own home!
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EXPRESSIVE STILL LIFE
Tutors - Jemma Derbyshire & Robin Wu
​£120

In this module, we will look at how to bring Still Life, to life!!  Prepare yourself for abundant colour, mark and energy, and enjoy working with everything from printmaking to collage and painting!  From beginning with making loose and expressive monotypes, we will then guide you through how to make your own collage papers, to then using those to make surfaces to work on, and culminating in a large scale expressive painting.  We will explore how to use expressive colour and mark to create work that is full of life and energy. This course is ideal for anyone who loves colour and materials!
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IMAGINATION AND INNER WORLDS
Tutors - Jemma Derbyshire & Robin Wu
£120

This module will look at exploring the subconscious, memory and imagination as a way of making exciting and intriguing pieces of work.  Throughout this module we will explore different ‘non traditional’ starting points for you artistic exploration in order to engage all the senses.  From using sound, spoken word and movement, to exploring imaginary spaces, and creating your own worlds, this course is certain to challenge how you think about making work!  Prepare to embrace all your senses and delve into 4 worlds full of possibilities!
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LANDSCAPE
Tutors - Jemma Derbyshire & Robin Wu
​£120

This course will look at exploring Landscape as a subject matter, and how to respond in an emotive and expressive fashion, while still retaining a sense of place.  We will take you from how to deal with a large expanse of landscape through drawing, to gathering colour notes, right through to studio development and making a painting.  This course will arm you with the tools you need to develop your own language in response to a landscape environment.
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