Mixed Media Collage Landscape - LOCO Centre - Adult Learning

Step into a relaxed, creative space where paper, paint, and fabric come together to form unique landscape-inspired artworks. In this uplifting four-week course, you’ll learn how to layer a rich variety of materials - acrylic paint, printed papers, found textures, and simple hand stitching - to build your own expressive mixed media landscape.

Working from either your own photographs or those provided, you’ll experiment with composition, colour, and texture to create a one-of-a-kind collage on paper or canvas. Whether your inspiration is rolling hills, a city skyline, or a windswept beach, you’ll be guided through every step of the process with encouragement and practical tips.

This course welcomes complete beginners as well as those who want to expand their creative toolkit. It’s a chance to switch off, explore, and create something personal in a friendly and supportive setting.

Over four creative sessions, you will explore how to:

• Use different materials and textures to create depth in a landscape collage

• Select and simplify imagery to build a striking composition

• Combine paper, fabric, and paint with confidence

• Use stitching and layering to add dimension and detail

• Develop your creative voice while exploring how art can support wellbeing

• Plan and document your next creative steps beyond the course

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

• Demonstrate how to begin a project

• Use both primary (own photos) and secondary (given images) research to plan a creative response

• Show how to use and apply different materials and mediums

• Combine at least three different mediums in a finished collage to add visual interest and texture

• Express yourself creatively using a variety of mixed media techniques

• Use selected materials and techniques to express your unique response to a landscape image

• Explain how art can have a positive impact on mental health and wellbeing

• Reflect on and discuss how engaging in creative activity can support wellbeing, using personal or researched examples

• Demonstrate a range of mixed media skills that could be used in your own projects

• Apply at least three newly learned skills in a personal piece that blends multiple techniques

• Plan next steps as an artist, including finding new opportunities to practise and further develop your skills

What you will need to bring to the course:

• Try to bring at least four images of landscapes (e.g. countryside, coastlines, or urban views)

• Bring copies of any photographs, if possible

• An apron, old shirt, or clothes you don’t mind getting messy

• A basic set of acrylic paints (yellow, red, blue, black, and white)

• A selection of paint brushes in different sizes

• A pack of baby wipes

• A notebook or sketchbook (plain or lined) for notes, reflections, or ideas

• You may also like to bring a variety of collage materials such as:

• Old magazines or newspapers

• Tissue paper (white and coloured)

• Scrap paper, maps, old book pages

• Lined or squared paper

• Old sewing patterns or wrapping paper (No need to buy new—just bring what you can find at home)

• Glue sticks

All materials are easy to source from local shops such as B&M, The Range, The Works, Hobbycraft, or online.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.