Visual arts
City Lit offers the most diverse visual arts programme in central London, with many courses taught by successful artists and practitioners. Recently rated ‘excellent’ in a government inspection, courses on offer include some of the most popular subjects in the capital, including photography, jewellery, ceramics, painting and drawing, as well as more specialist areas. Whether you are a complete beginner or a practising artist we hope we have something to entice you. Contact us
020 7492 2700/2703 visualarts@citylit.ac.uk
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- Architecture for health
- Architecture in Europe around 1900
- Art and immortality: Egypt in the age of the pyramids
- Art and literature: from the Saints to Shakespeare
- Art and power in the Roman empire
- Art history: practices and debates
- Big city buildings: London
- British art
- Byzantine Art at the Royal Academy
- Byzantine Art at the Royal Academy: a survey
- Classical Greece and the origins of Western Art
- Colours in art
- Contemporary art showing in London
- East Anglian churches
- Introduction to art history
- Introduction to iconography and icon painting
- Introduction to the Tate in London
- Leonardo's portraits and Madonnas
- London's smaller art collections
- Looking at paintings
- Medieval and Renaissance art: an introduction
- Modern art: 1860 - 1900
- Modern art: 1900 - 1950
- Modern art: 1950 - 2007
- National Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery
- North & south: Renaissance art in the Netherlands and Italy
- Painting and mosaic in the Greek and Roman world
- Renaissance art and the antique
- Renaissance Rome
- Scented visions: perfurme in art
- Style and subject matter in Italian Renaissance art
- Styles in art
- The 'isms' of 20th century art
- The age of reason: art & culture in the 18th century
- The mirror of nature: art & culture in the 17th century
- A taster course in bookbinding
- Book repair and conservation: advanced
- Book repair and conservation: leather-bound books
- Book repair and conservation: paper and cloth-bound books
- Bookbinding for beginners 1: book structures and box-making
- Bookbinding for beginners 2: a leather-bound book
- Bookbinding workshop
- Bookbinding: access day - tutored workshop
- Bookbinding: fine binding - forwarding and covering
- Bookbinding: gold tooling on leather and paper
- Bookbinding: making a unique artist book
- Conservation of books
- Intermediate/advanced bookbinding
- The bookbinding course
- A taster course in pottery
- An introduction to ceramics
- Ceramic artists talking: Yvonne Kulagowski
- Ceramics artists talking: Brigit Connolly
- Ceramics diploma course: 2nd year
- Ceramics diploma workshop
- Ceramics portfolio course
- Ceramics workshop
- Ceramics: a taster course in throwing
- Ceramics: surface printing on clay
- Ceramics: throwing and decoration
- Ceramics: workshop
- Pottery
- Pottery for beginners
- Pottery intermediate
- Pottery on Saturdays
- Pottery: a taster course in throwing
- Pottery: beginner's throwing course
- Pottery: evening course
- Pottery: introduction to throwing and decoration
- Pottery: Saturday throwing course
- Structured ceramics course
- 3D animation using Maya: introduction
- Advanced Digital Editing using Final Cut & After Effects
- Advanced Photoshop techniques
- After Effects for beginners
- Animation using the computer
- Art and Design computing and Photoshop
- Basic digital video editing using FinalCut: short course
- Beginner's animation: traditional and computer techniques
- Beginner's Photoshop
- Creative animation
- Designing textiles using computers and Photoshop
- Digital art studio: open access 1
- Digital art studio: open access 2
- Digital art studio: open access 3
- Digital art studio: open access 4
- Digital art studio: open access 5
- Digital art studio: open access 6
- Digital imaging for photographers
- Digital Imaging for photographers: taking photography further
- Digital photography for beginners with Photoshop
- Digital video editing using FinalCut
- Early morning digital photography and Photoshop
- Fine art video making: taught workshop
- Getting started with a digital video camera and editing
- How to make your own website
- iMovie and iDVD for home videos
- Intermediate digital editing using Final Cut and AfterEffect
- Introduction to After Effects and producing animated titles
- Introduction to colour management in photography
- Introduction to digital photography
- Introduction to photographing with RAW files
- Introduction to using Apple computers
- Life Drawing and Photoshop
- Make a DVD portfolio of your work
- Photoshop and digital techniques for printmakers
- Photoshop: produce promotional materials
- Taking Photoshop further
- Try it out: 3D animation with Maya
- Using Flash for animation: introduction
- Using Photoshop to prepare images
- Web design using Dreamweaver for artists
- Creative sketchbook
- Develop your drawing
- Developing your sketchbooks
- Drawing 1
- Drawing and mixed media
- Drawing and monoprints
- Drawing and the imagination
- Drawing concepts: drawing sounds
- Drawing connections
- Drawing continued
- Drawing for textiles
- Drawing into space
- Drawing the line
- Drawing with colour
- Drawing: new ways of seeing
- Drawing: some basics
- Sketchbook course
- Start using colour
- Starting a sketchbook
- Try drawing
- A taster course in basketry
- Basketry workshop
- Basketry: 'imbenge' technique using telephone wire
- Basketry: City & Guilds 7922, part 1 year 2
- Basketry: line, strip, form
- Colour onto cloth
- Contemporary willow basketry
- Drawing towards textiles
- Drawing with stitch
- Embroidered textiles
- Embroidery
- Felt jewellery
- Felt jewellery taster
- Felt-making for improvers
- Hand knitting
- Hand knitting for beginners
- Hand knitting for improvers
- Introduction to felt-making
- Make baskets, bags and containers from recycled materials
- Rush basketry
- Soft textile basketry
- Structural techniques for sculpture: working with natural materials
- Structures and surfaces with paper, fabric and stitch
- Surface pattern: design and decoration
- Textiles: beading and sequins
- The textile course: day
- The textile course: evenings
- Ceramic and metal jewellery
- Creative bead jewellery
- Jewellery certificate: City & Guilds 7922 year 1
- Jewellery workshop 7822
- Jewellery workshop 7922
- Jewellery workshop 7923
- Jewellery-making: a taster
- Jewellery: City & Guilds 7822 certificate
- Jewellery: day
- Jewellery: evening
- Jewellery: gold overlay
- Jewellery: introduction to working in metal clay
- Jewellery: make a beaded necklace
- Jewellery: make a silver ring
- Jewellery: off-loom bead weaving
- Jewellery: off-loom bead weaving continued
- Jewellery: Saturdays
- Jewellery: short course
- Jewellery: wax carving
- Make a piece of silver wire jewellery
- Plastic jewellery
- Professional practice: presentation drawing for jewellers
- Progressive jewellery
- Try jewellery: introduction to the City & Guilds certificate
- Abstracting the townscape
- Colour and inner creativity
- Colour mixing for oil painting
- Colour mixing for painting
- Creative still life
- Creativity from within
- Develop your painting
- Drawing into painting
- Green is the colour; painting is the process
- Introducing urban watercolour
- Introduction to art
- Introduction to painting
- Introduction to watercolour
- Introduction to watercolour techniques
- Introduction to watercolour: still life
- Introduction to watercolour: the environment
- Introduction to watercolour: the figure
- Painting continued
- Painting course 1
- Painting directions
- Painting: composing and improvising with colour
- Start using colour
- The City Lit fine art course: year 1 daytime
- The City Lit fine art course: year 1 evening
- The City Lit fine art course: year 2 daytime
- The City Lit fine art course: year 2 evening
- The figure in watercolour
- Watercolour themes and ideas
- Watercolour: the radiant image 1
- Watercolour: the radiant image 2
- Watercolour: the radiant image 3
- Ways into abstract painting
- A basic introduction to digital photography
- A brief history of British photography
- A first photography course
- A practical introduction to photography and photojournalism
- An introduction to buying and collecting photographs
- An introduction to photojournalism and photography
- Beginner's digital photography
- Creative photography project and portfolio assessment
- Creative photography project and portfolio assessment 2
- Documentary photography
- Get started in professional photojournalism and photography
- History of photography
- Improving your photography
- Introduction to portraiture and photographing people
- Introduction to the history of photography
- Photographing architecture and the urban environment
- Photographing London's landscape, architecture and people
- Photographing London's landscape, architecture and people: short course
- Photographing London: East London markets
- Photographing London: the South Bank
- Photographing people
- Photographing the performance
- Photography and photographing people: beginners
- Photography and taking photographs: introduction
- Photography as a fine art medium
- Photography: critical and analytic theories
- Travel photography and writing
- Understanding, choosing and buying digital cameras
- Bronze sculpture: sand casting
- Bronze sculpture: the voluptuous figure
- Introduction to sculpture
- Metal sculpture
- Sculpture workshop
- Sculpture workshop: carving in stone
- Sculpture: body casting
- Sculpture: carving in stone
- Sculpture: carving in stone City & Guilds 7822
- Sculpture: carving in wood
- Sculpture: clay modelling from life
- Sculpture: creative construction
- Sculpture: developing personal ideas
- Sculpture: low melt metal casting
- Sculpture: make your own waxwork head
- Sculpture: work creatively with the figure
- The City Lit sculpture course
- Wire sculpture
Browse full range of courses
- Visual arts
- Art foundation and portfolio preparation courses
- Art history
- Bookbinding and conservation
- Calligraphy
- Ceramics
- Conservation
- Design
- Digital arts
- Drawing
- Drawing and painting from life
- Fashion
- Fibre arts: textiles and basketry
- Graphic design, DTP, illustration and cartooning
- Jewellery
- Mosaics
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
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- Find out more about the Visual arts department
- Languages
- Drama, dance and speech
- Advanced acting courses
- Bi-media courses: TV, radio and sound
- Communication courses for speakers of other languages
- Courses for professional actors
- Dance and movement
- Follow-on drama courses
- Introductory drama courses
- Musical theatre diploma
- One and two-day courses
- One-week intensive course
- One-year advanced diploma
- One-year drama access course
- One-year drama foundation course
- Professional skills - technical
- Professional skills for actors
- Professional theatre company
- Sunday courses
- Voice, speech and communication
- View all in Drama, dance and speech
- Find out more about the Drama, dance and speech department
- Humanities
- Anthropology
- Business and economics
- Communications and study skills
- Creative writing
- English for speakers of other languages (level 2 and above)
- Film
- Folklore, myth and spiritual studies
- History and politics
- Latin America
- Literature
- London walks
- Media
- Philosophy
- Science and environment
- View all in Humanities
- Find out more about the Humanities department
- Music
- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
- Anatomy and physiology
- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy, healing and meditation
- First aid
- Massage and bodywork: introductory level
- Massage and bodywork: professional practitioner level
- Movement classes
- Nutrition and food safety
- Self-defence
- Stress management
- Training for teachers
- Yoga
- Your progression routes to teaching
- View all in Health and movement studies
- Find out more about the Health and movement studies department
- Computing
- Psychology, counselling & personal development
- English, maths & ESOL
- Deaf education
- Careers in care work
- Access to higher education
- Progress - courses for people with learning difficulties
- Basic skills
- Computing
- Health
- Learning together
- Music, drama and dance
- People and places, past and present
- Projects
- Visual arts
- Working with people with learning difficulties
- View all in Progress - courses for people with learning difficulties
- Find out more about the Progress - courses for people with learning difficulties department
- Speech therapy
- Teacher & management training
Featured course
Drawing towards textiles
Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!