Year-Long Courses
Leith School of Art offers nine year-long courses in a variety of different disciplines, a Foundation Course and a structured Graduate Residency. The School has a distinctive feel and seeks to create an intimate and supportive environment for studying art and design. With the highest calibre of tutors, each course is intensively taught enabling students to develop their practice in greater depth. Core materials are included in the course fees and are on hand for students to use, helping to make the most of time spent in the studio. Our year-long courses range from one to five days per week. Prospective students apply with a portfolio and are interviewed.
Leith School of Art offers nine year-long courses in a variety of different disciplines, a Foundation Course and a structured Graduate Residency. The School has a distinctive feel and seeks to create an intimate and supportive environment for studying art and design. With the highest calibre of tutors, each course is intensively taught enabling students to develop their practice in greater depth. Core materials are included in the course fees and are on hand for students to use, helping to make the most of time spent in the studio. Our year-long courses range from one to five days per week. Prospective students apply with a portfolio and are interviewed.
Foundation Course
Guided by our artist tutors, students on the Foundation Course build up a specialised portfolio for application to higher education art schools and colleges in the UK and internationally.
learn morePainting Course
For those who want to advance their knowledge, skill and application of painting. Practicing artists can challenge their current artistic position and newer students will develop the confidence to produce ambitious work.
learn moreDrawing Course
Drawing is the foundation of art. It informs the artist’s mind, brings rigour to observation and underpins work in any discipline. It can be used for many purposes: to inform, to explore ideas, to record or for its own sake.
learn moreArt & Spirituality
This course explores the interaction of material and spiritual influences in visual art - earthly and heavenly, immanent and transcendent, ephemeral and permanent, presence and absence.
learn moreContemporary Art Practice
With an emphasis on enquiry and experimentation, the Contemporary Art Practice (CAP) course encourages students to consider new possibilities in making art, beyond traditional boundaries.
learn moreCritical & Professional Development
As well as creating artworks, artists need to be able to speak and write about their work. The Critical and Professional Development (CPD) course allows students to develop the language and resources to talk about and represent their work.The course is about how to survive as an artist in today's world.
learn moreFigure Course
Constantly reinvented, the human figure has been studied by artists for centuries. The Figure course provides a dynamic environment for students to develop and portray their personal vision of the figure.
learn moreLandscape Course
Edinburgh and its surroundings is the inspiration for this course; its unique light, transient weather and dramatic topography offering the artist many options for expressing a personal view of the landscape.
learn moreOne Day Painting Course
The One Day Painting Course provides a unique opportunity for anyone wishing to spend one day a week over an academic year refining their artistic skills through an intensive programme of teaching.
learn morePrintmaking Course
Printmaking provides an ideal method of creating new and visually exciting images and offers the artist fresh and often unexpected creative outcomes.
learn moreStructured Graduate Residencies
Leith School of Art’s Structured Graduate Residencies offers a unique opportunity to study full-time within an established Art School, advance your practice from undergraduate study and develop a substantial body of new work.
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