Usher Gallery Art School Autumn programme: Energise your drawing
Learn art techniques with experienced art instructors to begin, or elevate, your artistic practice
Usher Gallery Art School
Welcome to the Usher Gallery Art School - Autumn programme
Ages 16+
Guided by experienced Art instructor/Artist Jane Frederick (and winner of the Usher Gallery Trust Lord Cormack award 2025), you will learn how to adopt a playful and relaxed approach to drawing from observation. Each workshop can be attended as a stand-alone workshop or join us for the full programme.
The autumn course will help you to build confidence in your use of dry drawing media including charcoal, conte crayon, graphite and chalk. Taking inspiration from artwork in the Usher Gallery collection, each session will help you to observe and interpret light and tone and encourage you to be bold and playful with your own approach to drawing, enabling you to inject your work with depth and visual impact.
These sessions will be concentrated, but relaxed and quiet.
Sunday 7 September, 10am – 1pm:
Energise your drawing using charcoal: get to grips with this flexible and versatile drawing medium through a playful introduction to mark making on different paper surfaces.
In a range of short and longer drawing exercises, participants will be invited to use willow charcoal of various thicknesses and experiment with mark making. They will develop exciting ways of applying charcoal to achieve both delicacy and boldness with the medium.
They will learn how to observe and interpret the work of other artists by exploring how they have applied dry drawing media in an individual way.
The tutor will introduce the activity verbally, they will provide advice, help and guidance throughout the session. They will also provide written notes and visual examples.
Participants are free to ask questions and discuss what they are doing with tutor and each other throughout the session.
What to expect:
This workshop is taking place in the Clore Learning room at the Usher Gallery. The Clore learning room is accessible by the entrance of the Usher. To find the Clore learning room, enter the Usher gallery by the glass extension entrance and go to the main door on the left. There are ramps and wide doors to accommodate wheelchairs, and a disabled access toilet oppositive the Clore learning room door, behind the reception desk.
This session will run from 10am till 1pm.
In this event you will be invited to try different techniques and art materials.
The tutor will introduce the activity verbally, they will provide advice, help and guidance throughout the session. They will also provide written notes and visual examples. Participants are free to ask questions and discuss what they are doing with tutor and each other throughout the session.
Some elements of this workshop may be challenging if you have difficulty with dexterity, however our experienced instructors will be available help you. This session will be concentrated, but relaxed and quiet. We have noise cancelling head phones and fidget toys available, please feel free to request this upon your arrival or throughout the session.
Here at Lincoln Museum and Usher Gallery, we welcome all participants; if you still aren’t sure whether this workshop is accessible for you or someone you care for, please email us at lincolnmuseum@lincolnshire.gov.uk and we can discuss your access requirements