With so many creative and practical courses on offer, we are sure that you will find what you are looking for here. All our courses are available for adults aged 19 and over.
Garden Design – Practical
This Garden Design Practical course will show you how to realise your garden design ideas. Practice applying your ideas over this two day course in the studio and outside in the garden at Marle Place. Learn about marking out your garden design features, new borders and placing plants, digging and planting techniques, safe working practices and lots of other handy horticulture tips!
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Botanical Illustration: Painting Blue Flowers
There are surprisingly few flowers which are blue in colour, yet they make wonderful subjects to draw and paint. This course is about learning to create botanical illustrations of blue flowering plants in watercolour. There will be an emphasis on drawing with precision and accuracy, including observational drawing of botanical structures, the science of botany, composition skills, and using watercolour painting techniques suitable for botanical illustration.
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Introduction to Counselling
This day course will offer an overview of the counselling process, theoretical approaches, some personal development exercises and case studies.
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Painting The Causeway
This course will be based at The Drill, Horsham.
Weather permitting*, we will be working outside, sketching in The Causeway, a short walk away.
You will be shown how to select a view of a building, ways to measure the proportions and how to get started with your drawing.
You can choose to draw with pencil or a technical waterproof pen and will be shown how to produce a range of tones and textures appropriate for the subject
You will watch a demonstration of how to add watercolour washes to complete your project.
* If the weather is unfavourable we will work indoors, using the tutor’s photos of The Causeway.
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Introduction into HTML and CSS (Web Design)
Want to learn how to code?. Learning to code HTML and CSS is the easiest way to get into coding. You can progress quickly and build up a good basic knowledge within a day.
In this course we are going to learn the basics of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language is the standard markup language for creating web pages) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language like HTML).
We are going to create webpages and interlink them using HTML code.
Then we are going to use CSS to style (format) the webpages we have created.
Also we will have an introduction into CMS (Content management system manages the creation and modification of digital content such as websites). Many companies use a CMS for creating and maintaining their websites.
By the end of the course, students will have created a website containing multiple webpages with text, pictures and hyperlinks by using HTML and CSS
Boost your Wellbeing
Everyone wants to be happy, but are we really going about it the right way? Drawing on the latest research, this course will give you a better understanding of what really makes us happy and explores some simple, practical and scientifically-proven ways to increase your happiness and wellbeing.
With the emphasis on easy and achievable, the course will help you identify specific actions you can take to make a positive and lasting difference to your wellbeing.
Willow Sculpture: A Small Garden Obelisk
This course will introduce you to the techniques required to create your own Willow Sculpture: A Small Garden Obelisk. We will investigate historical and contemporary examples for inspiration and you will be able to create your own unique design. You will have an opportunity to explore a variety of approaches to using willow. Create your own unique Garden Obelisk to take home. Your Garden Obelisk will be suitable for use in your garden, terrace, balcony or conservatory.
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Ukulele: Small Group
You will be introduced to the basics of Ukulele. Playing using just a few chords and different strumming & finger style patterns to play along to a variety of songs.
You will be taught as part of a whole group with the use of Music Sheets.