Art, Design and Crafts

Portrait Workshop NEW

Start date: 3rd Oct 2026

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Cost: £70

Day: Saturday

Duration: 1 weeks

Tutor: Martin Kerrison

Course code: 26AU062

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Draw or paint portraits from a professional artists' model! This is a 6 hour, one-day workshop in Portraiture, giving students the opportunity to work directly from life.

The art room is stocked with oil, acrylic, watercolours, pastels, oil pastels, pencils, charcoal, and ink pens and students may choose whichever material to work from that they prefer.

There will likely be some quick warm-up poses and an extended pose/poses thereafter.

Students will benefit from tutor support throughout the day. This mixed ability workshop is open to all those interested in portraiture.

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Martin Kerrison

I am an artist and educator, having extensive experience as a senior school and adult education teacher. I teach drawing, painting, life and portraiture classes to all ages and abilities, exploring a wide range of materials and approaches. I believe art benefits all and everyone has creative potential.

My art practice focusses on figurative and magical realist painting and I have exhibited widely, most notably at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 2022, 2020 and 2015.
Graduating from Northumbria University with a degree in Fine Art, I took a PGCE at Oxford and an MA in History of Art at the University of London.

I taught art for many years in the London area, working as a Teacher of Art and Art History, Adult Education Tutor and Head of Art and Photography, before relocating to Yorkshire in 2021.

When not at the easel or in the classroom, I can often be found enjoying countryside walks, historic buildings, singing in local groups or playing cricket.

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