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Launching a suite of flexible Short Courses
of 6 –10 weeks and intensive Artist Mentorship opportunities starting January 2026

Courses

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Oscar Wyndham Lewis

Oil-on-glass Animation

Over ten weeks, participants will explore this unique medium - from basic animation
principles and painting techniques to developing a short collaborative film.
The course welcomes all abilities, from complete beginners to experienced
artists and animators.

Dates: 23 JAN 2026 - 27 MAR 2026

Duration: 10 WEEKS

Fridays

12:00 pM / 3:00 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £295

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Ben Jenner & Ian Bottle

Art Writing

We will consider how thinking is expressed through walking, drawing, reading, and writing together, building on a rich history of artists that have explored text and
textuality as material and writers who have questioned the primacy of text.​

Dates: 27 JAN 2026 - 31 MAR 2026

Duration: 10 WEEKS

Tusedays

2:00 pM / 5:00 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £295

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Lisa Hawkins

Painting 

Building foundational drawing and painting
skills for beginners and those looking to boost their artistic confidence.
Through a blend of observation, imagination, and practical material exploration, participants will be guided to see and create with a discerning, creative eye. 

Dates: 21 FEB 2026 - 28 MAR 2026

Duration: 6 WEEKS

Saturdays

10:30 AM / 1:30 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £175

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Roy Eastland

Drawing From Life

Drawing is the act of making meaningful traces. Drawing from life, we pay attention to the physical presence of someone like us, and as we draw we change our minds about how we see and the marks we make. Through a series of short drawing exercises, demonstrations and one-to-one teaching, we will gain a closer understanding of our own ways of drawing and of how drawings work and become meaningful as works of Art.

Dates: 3 FEB 2026 - 24 MAR 2026

Duration: 8 WEEKS

Tusedays

10:30 AM / 1:30 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £295

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Amias Hanley

Sound Tools For Artists: A Creative Introduction to Audio Technologies

 

 

 

 

This introductory course guides artists
in creatively working with sound through recording, editing, and shaping audio in a Digital Audio Workstation. It builds confidence and experimentation, helping participants integrate sound into their artistic practice.​

Dates: 22 JAN 2026 - 12 MAR 2026

Duration: 8 WEEKS

Saturdays

2:00 PM / 5:00 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £245

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Sława Harasymowicz

Narratives

This short course explores how images can tell a story, using drawing and various montage techniques to develop a visual narrative: for a personal project, a potential graphic novel or an artist book.

Beyond tuning in to sometimes elusive images and ideas, what makes a story ‘speak’ are also more practical considerations. The course will include presentations, demonstrations and workshops, continual one to one support, and group sharing and discussion: to allow you to shape and direct images, perhaps drawn from dreams or Memories.

Dates: 27 JAN 2026 - 31 MAR 2026​​

Duration: 10 WEEKS

Tusedays

12:00 pM / 3:00 PM 

Enrolment Fee: £295

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21 February 2026 - 28 March 2026

21 February 2026 - 28 March 2026

What's included

Tutorial support 

Get more individual attention with small cohorts. Your course includes tutor one-to-ones, peer reviews, and expert critiques.

Facilities

At TMSA, we offer a wide range of technical facilities, including photography darkrooms, screen printing, and FabLab. To find out more, please contact your Academic Coordinator for further information.

Community

By becoming enrolling on one of our courses you will become part of TMSA's community, where we encourage collective learning, sustainable practices, and peer support.

Tutors

The Margate School of Art academic coordinator and tutors are research active practitioners and the programme is supported by a core team of regular tutors with visiting tutors joining the programme.

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Benjamin Jenner

Benjamin Jenner is an artist and practice-based researcher whose creative process is rooted in participation and dialogic exchange as a platform for the generation of collaborative forms of representation. They are particularly interested in devising techniques for allying ulterior forms of sensory perception with the embodied imagination in order to exceed empirical methods of observation and normative forms of knowledge production. 

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Amias Hanley

Through sound and spatial media, Amias Hanley explores auditory-led questions that engage the scholarship of queer ecologies and transgender studies. Central to their practice is the question of how listening processes can give rise to the experience of ecological awareness and how auditory sensations produce senses of being, place, and relationality. These inquiries are often site-responsive, generating speculative encounters that aim to offer sonic propositions for engaging composite forms and conditions.

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Oscar Wyndham Lewis

Oscar is a British artist and animator currently based in Margate. He graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2016 with a Master’s in Animation and has since directed several award-winning short films and music video projects.

He currently works as Animation Director for the New York production company “A Closer Look Inc” and South London’s “Packed Lunch Studios”. His latest short animated film, “Small Hours”, will release this year (2025).

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Lisa Hawkins

Lisa is an oil painter whose subject is predominantly but not exclusively landscape. Informed by her abiding interest in colour and abstraction the paintings are often lively and vigorous.
When painting, she prefers to work from drawings and memory.  Making the work has developed into a meditative process where she often taps into deep unconscious feelings and memories which may reveal themselves in the work.  The titles of the paintings can reflect music, poetry or prose that has been an influence on the making of the work.  The painting is finished when Lisa feels there is nothing more to say.

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Roy Eastland

Roy Eastland is an artist and drawing teacher whose work explores themes of human presence, memory and trace. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (1996), he is the winner of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize and the SGFA Small Works Award.

He has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including the BP Portrait Award, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and Turner Contemporary. His professional practice includes teaching engagements at the V&A and UCA Rochester, with work held in public collections such as The Young Gallery Salisbury and Edinburgh College of Art.

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Sława Harasymowicz

Sława Harasymowicz is an artist currently based on the East Kent coast. Her practice is largely narrative-driven and she works with drawing, moving image, different photographic and print techniques, installation, writing and sound. After graduating from The Royal College of Art in London she produced a body of work responding to Sigmund Freud’s ‘Wolf Man’ including a book and exhibition. She has exhibited at The National Poetry Library Southbank Centre, London, the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków, Poland, and The Freud Museum, London. In progress is a site-specific project in Germany.She is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Harasymowicz has lectured at the Royal College of Art, UCA, and other universities in London and beyond. 

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Ian Bottle

Ian's work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and artists books. He completed his MA in painting at Chelsea School of Art after studying to BA at Newcastle Polytechnic. Originally from Kent, he returned to the coast to set up a studio and work as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Further Education at University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. Ian has continued to show work throughout his career whilst participating in a variety of research projects that have continued to shape his practice. 

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