Delivery method: Face to face at the School of Art, Aberystwyth. 20 credits

This vocational style course gives the student an insight into what gallery educators do and the basic teaching skills required for this role.

Delivery method: Face to face at the School of Art, Aberystwyth. 10 credits

Do you experience a sense of belonging when viewing particular landscapes? How does landscape art help us form such personal and social identities?

Delivery method: Face to face at the 3D Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 10 credits

This course will be explored through the medium of clay. It will use the figure as a starting point to develop abstract 3D work developed from existing figure studies.  

Delivery method: Blended learning/Face to face in Elystan Morgan, Llanbadarn. 10 credits

This is a face to face/blended learning 10 credit module introducing students to the techniques and skills of depicting plant-life accurately and with detail from observation.

Face to face at IBERS, (Edward Llwyd) 2.02, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth; 5 credits

A five-credit practical painting course suitable for those students who are undertaking field studies as well as students who wish to broaden their skills in Fine Art.

Delivery method: Face to face in Elystan Morgan, Llanbadarn. 10 credits

This is a beginner’s watercolour module introducing students to the basic techniques of watercolour over the course of 7 weeks in Aberystwyth but 4 sessions in Cardigan.

Delivery method: Face to face in the Village Hall, Llanilar. 10 credits

This module will assist students to develop skills in picture making using landscape as a fo-cus and to apply drawing and painting skills to gather information from different sources and process them into a resolved work of art

Face to face at IBERS (Edward Llwyd) 2.02, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth; 5 credits

A fascinating new course which will cover a variety of specialist drawing and watercolour techniques and materials for depicting a wide variety of Mosses, Lichens and Liverworts, their colours, forms and unique characteristics.

Delivery method: Face to face in Elystan Morgan, Llanbadarn. 10 credits

This course which will cover a variety of specialist drawing, painting and printmaking tech-niques and materials for capturing the characteristics of different tree species and woodland habitats including structure, colour, light and texture.

Delivery method: Face to Face in the School of Art, Aberystwyth. 10 credits. (intensive)

This is an introduction to simple printmaking techniques to enable artists to understand the techniques and processes of printmaking.

Face to face at IBERS, (Edward Llwyd) 2.02, Penglais Campus Aberystwyth; 5 credits

An exciting new course which will cover a variety of specialist watercolour and drawing techniques and materials for capturing a wide variety of seaweed types, their colours, forms and unique characteristics.

Delivery method: Face to face at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. 10 credits

This course, Animalia, is not about making a pottery model of your pet! You will explore the history of constructed animals in ceramics and look at the work of contemporary ceramicists who work in clay and paper-clay to inspire.

Delivery method: Face to face at the School of Art, Aberystwyth. 10 credits

This module will enable students to develop skills in picture-making by means of studies made out of doors, on location, on a landscape theme.

Delivery method: Face to face in The Village Hall, Llanilar. 5 credits

The two-day course is designed to explore the full process of charcoal burning through creating willow charcoal and learn the techniques of drawing with the medium ‘en plein air’ within the woodland. 

Delivery method: Face to face at The Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 10 credits

This is a core module in the Certificate of Higher Education: Art and Design

This course offers an introduction to and gives experience of working with colour in your painting.

Delivery method: Face to face at The Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 10 credits

This course will be taught using a tutorial approach, the sessions are spread out throughout the year to allow time to develop your work in response to this course.

Delivery method: Face to face at The Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 10 Credits

This module is designed to give an introduction to the practical elements of working in three dimensions using wire, wax, and papier mache.

Delivery method: Face to face at The Small World Theatre, Cardigan. 10 Credits

Since its emergence in the Art world in the early part of the twentieth century collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression but also as a principle means of evaluation and developing creative strategies.

Delivery method: Face to face in the Centre for Alternative Technology, Corris. 5 credits

This 5-credit, face to face module takes place over the weekend of the 7th of October at the CAT centre, near Machynlleth.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

Succulents often have a beautiful chalky blue bloom.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

This is an online/self-paced 10 credit module introducing students to the techniques and skills of depicting plant-life accurately and with detail from observation, by means of 8 units, and a final composition task at the end of the module.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

This module has been created to address learning and well-being issues related work life balance.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

Have you wanted to try drawing or painting with a drawing tablet? Or were you wanting to try out applying your Natural History Illustration skills or drawing skills in a new and exciting way?

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

This 5-credit module is suitable for beginners in watercolour techniques within Natural His-tory Illustration and students who wish to hone their observational and painting skills and depict accurate paintings with fine detail.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

This inspiring self-paced, online art course is ideal for those who wish to capture the colours, forms and textures of a variety of plant forms following their growth and development throughout the seasons including Autumn foliage, seeds, fruits & flowers.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

Art in Wales: The Welsh Depicted is a topical art history module that explores ideas of por-traiture and Welsh identity.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

Students who register on the Art and Design Certificate are required to enrol on a tutorial module to complement the other classes they attend throughout the year.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

The module gives further techniques and research into the effects of colour on artworks for the artist and the viewer.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

The quickest way to accelerate drawing skills is to learn to draw from observation. This mod-ule will teach you the art of looking.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

In this module we will be looking at the beauty of birds in flight, you will be creating your own Visual Diary showing your research and observations from the field.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

This five-credit, self-paced online module is suitable for students who are undertaking field studies as well as students who wish to broaden their observational illustration skills.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

As a Natural History Illustrator there will be jobs that come up that you have real passion for, for example climate change and its effect on the natural world.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

 
This module is designed to give the student further experience of drawing and painting on location but with a twist.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

What is the origin of the study of Natural History Illustration? Who were the early illustrators and what motivated them to record the natural world? What can we learn today from these early illustrators?

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

This module is designed to develop your experience of working from life by introducing you to a broad range of painting, drawing and colour theory skills whilst developing your individual strengths.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

This practical module deals with the debate to define the boundaries between figurative and abstraction.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 10 credits

This course is for more experienced students who wish to further develop digital drawing and painting skills they may already have or for those who have completed the first Digital Drawing and Painting course with Lifelong Learning. 

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

A five-credit practical painting course, ideal for anyone undertaking field studies as well as students who wish to broaden their skills in Fine Art.

Delivery method: Self-paced online learning. 5 credits

Gain the skills to create your own field study book whilst exploring a variety of drawing and painting media and methods including tonal and linear drawing and fun mixed media and watercolour wash techniques for depicting form, volume, colour, texture and pattern.