The Studio Practice Course has been specifically designed for those with an existing artistic practice and an established identity to their work. It helps artists to consider whether they are using the most appropriate materials, supports and scale, for example, to best complement the content of their work.

Essentially the course gives mentoring to artists with materials to hand. Now in its ninth year, the course helps participant artists to create their comprehensive toolkit of techniques and approaches, to distinguish their visual language and to introduce new ways to establish a personal artistic path. The course stimulates and supports them through an intensive year of tutorials, workshops, group crits and talks centred around two-day practical studio sessions. The art school will provide a generous range of materials during the sessions to help you experiment with different approaches and processes to bring into your work.

With one-to-one tutorials and days designed around key topics, we look at creating bodies of work, with coherent criteria and planned decisions such as scale, media, and exhibition exposure. Our final session explores how to produce and supply effective photography for promotional and print use, and the wide variety of exhibition opportunities available for emerging artists.

Dan Pyne and Jesse Leroy Smith lead the course, creating continuity through the year, while our visiting artists will take an in-depth look at your work and engage with it as well as give demonstrations and talks on their practice. While students continue to make their work throughout the year, there will also be set themes based on key elements of studio practice. Tutors will help students to develop personal journals that can help to support how each artist works with subjects, themes, and influences.

The visiting tutors alongside Dan and Jesse create a vibrant and varied source of additional input from our roster of professional practising artists across the year. The sixth session explores how to produce and supply effective photography for promotional and print use, and the wide variety of exhibition opportunities available for emerging artists.

We offer everyone interested in applying for the course a free 45-minute one-to-one Zoom call with the Lead Tutor. Simply fill in our Application Form embedded below, and we will contact you about arranging an informal interview. Alternatively, if you have any questions, you can get in touch via Contact Us.

Course price: £3,150.

Participants can pay for the course in three equal installments. All payments must be made at least one month before the course begins.

2025/26 dates have now been released, please see the sessions below;

Group A - Thursdays and Fridays

Session 1 – Thursday 9th & Friday 10th October 2025

Session 2 – Thursday 4th & Friday 5th December 2025

Session 3 – Thursday 29th & Friday 30th January 2026

Session 4 – Thursday 26th & Friday 27th March 2026

Session 5 – Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd May 2026

Session 6 – Thursday 9th & Friday 10th July 2026

Group B - Saturdays and Sundays

Session 1 – Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October 2025