Tutor: Guy Allott
Format: Online, Thursday evenings (8 weeks)
Time: 6:00–9:00 pm (UK time)
Level: All levels welcome (beginners through to experienced makers)
£240 £300
Discounted New Course limited time offer
Course Description
Unlock your creative potential on this practical and inspiring online evening class with artist Guy Allott. This course is designed to transform your sketchbook from a notebook of ideas into a dynamic tool for exploration, experimentation and creative development.
Across 8 Thursday evenings, you’ll engage in structured tasks and open-ended exercises that help you discover fresh ways of seeing and making images. Working directly in your sketchbook, you’ll explore diverse approaches to mark-making, observation, composition and personal visual language. Each session blends creative practice with reflection, dialogue and supportive group feedback.
Whether you’ve kept a sketchbook for years or are just starting, this course will help you build a confident and sustained practice that enriches your art and thinking.
What you’ll do:
- Develop a consistent sketchbook practice that supports your ideas and artistic growth.
- Work with a range of drawing and visual experimentation tasks designed to expand how you see, think and record.
- Engage in discussions of relevant artists, approaches and creative strategies.
- Share work and receive constructive feedback in a welcoming online group setting.
- Explore ways to make your sketchbook both a source of ideas and a creative laboratory.
Who it’s for:
This course is perfect for artists, designers and creative thinkers who want to invigorate how they use their sketchbooks — whether for observation, creative problem-solving, experimentation or simply to enjoy making. All levels are welcome; the emphasis is on process, curiosity and play rather than technical perfection.
Outcomes:
By the end of the course, you’ll have:
- A richer, more confident sketchbook practice.
- A sketchbook full of insightful, varied and personally relevant work.
- Fresh ways of connecting ideas to visual expression.
- A supportive creative network and increased motivation to continue your practice.
Guy Allott is a London-based artist working across painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, and his work is held in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Library. Alongside his studio practice, he is an experienced educator and a co-founder of IntoArts, a charity supporting access to the visual arts.
Guy Allott
Above: Extracts from sketchbooks (L2R)of Athy, Hector and Tessa
Image copyright of the artists or the ESOP. All rights reserved.
