Fine Art
This flexible foundation programme in art and design is taught online through a mix of self-directed study, live study days and a student community hub.
Designed to fit around your day-to-day commitments, the programme will help you to establish momentum and resilience in your creativity. Supported by an online community of students and tutors you will improve competence and confidence in the core skills in art and design.
You can expect to:
A selection of work completed by students on each intake of the Online Foundation Certificate in Art and Design is available to view in a new online exhibition. The exhibition celebrates each individual student's work and their experience on the programme.
Image: 'Restraint' by Sarah Evans, OFCAD 1.
Explore and expand your work in a uniquely immersive environment with its own connections to art history. Our School of Arts students enjoy specialist studio spaces dedicated to painting and drawing, sculpture and tapestry and textile-based work as well as exceptional exhibition space.
Fees are £1,733 paid in advance or three instalments of £630 each paid after Module 2 and Module 5. If you would like to pay the advanced price of £1,733, please call the Bookings Office on( 01243) 818 300.
Payment is required on booking either in full, or the first instalment and submitting the application form, the second instalment will be due after Module 2 and third instalment will be due after Module 5. See dates.
Fees include all tuition and tutorials, materials are not included.
This course has now commenced. If you are interested in receiving updates about future course dates, please email [email protected] to join our waiting list.
Any questions?
Email [email protected]; call us on: (01243) 818 300 and select option 1, or read more about our Admissions processes.
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By Jo Boddy, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design alumna 2021
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By Tiffany Robinson, Programme Coordinator and Tutor - Foundation Diploma Art and Design & Online Foundation Certificate in Art and Design
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Programme Coordinator - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Tiffany Robinson studied interactive media for her MA (2005) making art films and immersive sci-art installations on perception and nanoscale. She is currently a tutor, mentor (The Art of Enquiry) and walking artist making intuitive drawings using natural and digital media. Her work deals with a post-modern estrangement from nature towards a being more than human through alignment with nature.
Subject Tutor - BA (Hons) Art and Contemporary Craft
Subject Tutor - Online Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Short Course Tutor
Dr Melanie Rose explores landscape and place through painting. Working with traditional materials, sympathetic to the environment, her current focus is the landscape set within the bounds of the South Downs National Park, which forms the heart of her PhD research.