During Autumn to Spring, The Glasgow School of Art’s Continuing Education Department will run weekly day and evening courses for adults and Saturday courses for children. The programme runs for 18 weeks over two terms from October to March. The courses available are diverse and all are welcome regardless of previous experience or ability.

The courses are taught by experienced artists and designers who are specialists in their field, and classes are held in studios and workshops normally used by full time GSA students. Drawing and painting classes take place in the Mackintosh Building – the building is Category A listed and a Registered Museum as well as continuing to be run as a world-class Art School. The ‘Mack’ is at the heart of the School’s city centre campus which is also the location of printmaking, photography and sculpture based courses.

Learn drawing & painting, stained glass, life drawing, jewellery making, photography, printmaking, sculpture, children’s Saturday classes and more.

View the full brochure of courses on offer and pricing details here.

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1 Religious Illustrator
A Sikh man wearing speedos approached me in a Longridge sauna, and asked if I could draw his family being blessed by the Guru Gobind Singh Ji. To this day I have no idea what Singh Ji should look like, but this didn’t seem to be an issue. I knocked out several more for his friends, all in pencil crayon, before this bizarre seam of work dried up.

2 Hi-Fi Salesman, Preston Town Centre
Neds would run in, yank up the volume on the biggest hi fi systems, and run away in a wall of white noise. Phil the Manager played Simply Red as a demo tape endlessly. Dark, dark days.

3 YMCA Daycamps Instructor, Lakeside, Windermere
The kids arrived by bus in the morning and we’d have a brilliant time running them ragged and telling them rubbish until teatime. Once week a co-instructor and I convinced our group that we’d been co-joined twins, attached by the earlobes and recently separated – hence our ‘leaning’ walks. By Thursday they’d figured out not to trust us, as we had terrible backache.

4 Life Model, Edinburgh
Harder than it looks. I supplemented my student grant by taking my clothes off in a variety of life drawing classes across Edinburgh, and still get approached by ex students who are SURE they know me, but just can’t place it somehow… something to do with clothes….

5 California Coffee ‘Barrista’
In a classic case of ‘up-selling’, I converted one of my regulars at the iconic Edinburgh police boxes into my first client, by flogging him a coffee table to go with his espresso. Shameless, but effective.

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