For our eighth series, the evening programme features 11 workshops across a range of creative disciplines. These workshops are delivered by nine local practitioners and cater to beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Each evening workshop runs over a nine-week period, offering participants the opportunity to develop their skills in a supportive, hands-on environment.
If you have a question about our evening workshops or any of our other workshops in the programme, please get in touch with the Engage at Gray's Team and we'll do our best to help.
This 9-week series of hand-building workshops offers an introduction to ceramics for beginners. Participants will learn fundamental hand-building techniques through guided demonstrations and gain the skills to create their own simple forms.
This 9-week series of intermediate evening workshops is designed to help participants develop their ceramic projects through practitioner-led demonstrations and guided support. Throughout the workshops, you will explore a range of techniques, including hand-building, mould-making, casting, and finishing methods.
Join our 9 week evening workshop block to explore contemporary jewellery and small scale sculpture. Work with materials such as copper, aluminium, acrylic plastic and wood while learning techniques including piercing, texturing, roll printing, cold joining and soldering. Develop your ideas, respond to a creative brief and craft your own playful, small scale pieces.
Join nine playful weeks of gestural figure drawing and painting from a live model. Explore movement, gesture, and expressive mark-making as you experiment with graphite, charcoal, ink, watercolour, gouache, and acrylic. Through quick poses, intuitive exercises, and layered studies, you’ll build confidence and develop bold, dynamic, and expressive responses to the human form.
Join us for a nine-week introduction to lino printing with Laura Bremner, founder of Juniper Press. In this series of evening workshops, you’ll explore the fundamentals of designing, carving, and printing using your own hand-carved lino blocks. As the workshops progress, you’ll also be introduced to a reduction technique; a method for creating striking multi-colour prints from a single block.
This 9-week series of evening workshops has been designed to provide beginners with the basic principles of Film Photography, a discipline also referred to as Analogue Photography. During the workshop you will be introduced to manual camera operation, darkroom practice, studio practice and the production of black and white prints.
The 9-week series of workshops is to provide guidance to those currently exploring Film Photography or Analogue Photography at an intermediate stage. The workshop will enable a further understanding of how to develop your manual camera techniques and will enable you to extend your practice using the darkroom and enhance the quality of the black and white prints you produce.
This 9-week series of evening workshops provides a comprehensive introduction to portraiture. Participants will learn fundamental techniques - from understanding facial structure and proportions to mastering lighting, colour mixing, and fine detail work.
During this 9-week series of evening workshops, you will learn how to prepare and transfer your own designs from paper onto fabric using a range of screen-printing techniques.
This 9-week evening workshop invites participants to explore the ancient craft of throwing; a method of forming pottery using a potter’s wheel. With a small group size of just five, the workshop offers tailored one-on-one tuition suitable for makers of all levels, from beginners to advanced.