Short Course: Drawing in Detail
Suitable for: Beginners to Improvers
Come and make friends, get acquainted with pencil and paper. Explore and enjoy the potential of mark making to create life-like drawings with step-by-step guidance, demonstrations, practical exercises and the support and encouragement of your tutor- artist Tanya Wood. Over three sessions you will learn about graphite pencils, their properties and potential to produce a vast array of marks, taking drawing far beyond line. Build confidence, skills and knowledge to draw what you see in detail.
About the tutor:
Through the art of drawing Tanya aims to communicate ideas concerning our everyday experience of being consciously present. The focus is on fast contemporary life, lived (often obliviously) in constant flux, of change and habit and that which receives our daily inattention. In contrast, Tanya’s drawings are an act of mindfulness; every detail and imperfection is faithfully transcribed; time is slowed in absorption while hours fly by.
By focusing on a moment, a detail combined with the meticulous rendering of surfaces, places and spaces Tanya hopes to provide a space for pause, drawing attention and awareness to ordinary reality in order to experience the present, more intensely. Drawing is her passion and helps me make sense of the world, it is an invitation and opportunity to spend more time looking at our immediate environment and our place in it, to make more of life lived now. We hope through Tanya’s workshops you can explore this passion and skill with her.
Our adult workshops are open to participants aged 18 and over.
Course Information – Summer 2026
These workshops take place on a Tuesday, 6pm until 9pm.
Session dates: 5th, 12th and 19th May
Course fees
Participants can either book for the whole course or per workshop.
£60 for the whole course
£25 per workshop
