One Week Holiday Course | Sculpting a Horse

The horse is a subject that history reveals as an incredible source of sculptural excitement. This course is an opportunity to try our own hand.

Painting and Sculpture

One Week Holiday Course | Sculpting a Horse Image

Course details

Dates

6 Jul – 10 Jul 2026

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£455.00

Location

Shoreditch studios

Tutors

Marcus Cornish

Overview

The horse has been potent in human experience and an analogy for human experience. Even now, at a time when the horse no longer dominates as a means of traffic, haulage and warfare, major sculptural statements of the horse are still fabricated and have a force in cultural life.

Students will look at constructing a horse in three dimensions in clear stages and then aim at finding its expressive potential for ourselves. Students will have the opportunity to study the horse as public sculptures, in paintings and drawings and from live horses in stables. We will be working in bronze coloured modelling wax, approximately 14” from head to tail in scale and will have constant recourse to drawing as a medium between life and the sculpture. As we pull together visual material to create a composition it is hoped that one’s drawing practice, as well as our sculpture, will be helped by this course.

Who is it for

Beginners welcome. No experience of drawing required.

What’s provided

For studio courses, easels, drawing boards, charcoal, newsprint and masking tape are provided in the studios for free. We will also provide wax, modelling stands and a wire armature. If paper is needed, you can purchase this in our studios at cost price.

What to bring

A full material lists will be provided one week before your course begins.

Suggested materials include:

Wooden modelling tools. See examples here.
Ribbon loop tools. See examples here.
Callipers. See examples here.
Sketchbook of any size.
Apron.
Pencils and an eraser.

You are encouraged to bring your own additional materials for personal use only, to the studio.

Concessions

Unfortunately, we do not offer concessions on our holiday courses.

All of our course rates are subsidised and we also offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses.

Tutors

Marcus Cornish

Tutor