Short Courses
Short Courses at Messums Studios offer an exciting and broad portfolio of learning opportunities. These courses with a focus on specific creative disciplines and methods are delivered by visiting artists, artists represented by Messums, or by Messums Studios artist/tutors. Our Short Courses run outside our regular classes timetable, and are the perfect opportunity to explore something different, acquire new knowledge, or to learn a specific skill within a discipline you love.
- Pottery
- Short Course
- This is a short taster workshop ideal for those who have always longed to have a go. This course will provide you with the ideal opportunity to try out the potter’s wheel, have fun making your first masterpiece, and see if you too will get the pottery bug.
- Pottery
- Children & FamiliesShort
- This course is an ideal opportunity for the whole family to become familiar with hand-building clay. In these sessions, we invite children *aged 5+ and their adults to come along and have fun creating and getting messy together. In this workshop we will explore the theme of the teddy bears picnic and the young artists will have a chance to learn slab building, pinch pot making and clay modelling
- Painting
- Short Course
- In this en plein air watercolour course you’ll explore the expressive and unpredictable qualities of watercolour and ink, while investigating the shapes, forms, volumes, and structures found in nature.
- Textiles
- Short Course
- In an intensive two-day workshop, students will learn about variety of techniques that can be used within the art of seamless 3D wet felting.
- DrawingPainting
- Short Course
- A day of drawing from a life model. Using charcoal, paint, pastels sandpaper, and more you will uncover new and exciting ways of drawing the life model.
- Sculpture
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Two day sculpture workshop with Valentina Zlatarova
Working from photographs, learn to sculpt a mask of the life-size face.
- Drawing
- Short Course
- A fantastic opportunity to spend two days learning to observe and draw the human figure with internationally renowned and critically acclaimed contemporary artist Antony Williams.
- Pottery
- Short Course
- This course is aimed at intermediate potters who would like to expand their skill set to work with the notoriously temperamental and magical material that is porcelain.
- Pottery
- Short Course
- If you always wanted to have a go at making with porcelain on the potter’s wheel now is your chance.
- Ceramics
- Short Course
- This two-day course with Andy Mason will cover numerous methods of experimental and immediate firing techniques associated with modern RAKU.
- Pottery
- Short Course
- An exciting opportunity to spend the whole week learning, improving, and furthering existing clay making skills.
- Printmaking
- Short Course
- This course led by artist Francesco Poiana adopts a thoughtful and experimental approach to various sustainable printmaking methods
CONTACT INFORMATION
- Messums Studios
- Unit 1 Homeland Security, Chilmark, SP3 5DU
Opening Hours
- By appointment (Tuesday - Saturday)
- Sunday and Monday - Closed
REFUNDS & CANCELLATIONS
We appreciate that sometimes things can change. Please see our Refunds & Cancellations Policy for more information.
