Close-up of a hand with a paint brush. Working on a canvas with outlines drawn of flowers and a butterfly obscuring the top half of a face, painting one of the flowers pink

Art, Design & Photography

If you’ve got passion and creative flair for visual arts, design or photography then a creative career could be for you.

Artists and designers are involved in creating everything we buy and see in the world around us including book covers, packaging, advertising campaigns, fashion, wedding or portrait photography, and much more.

The skills you learn will enable you to work in a range of industries but they also give you the chance to enhance and develop your creativity enabling you to move on to university.

Work In

Advertising & Marketing

Digital Multimedia

Fashion & Textiles

Art Therapy

Photography

Journalism

Our Courses

Students making 3D sculptures from paper

Level 2 Creative & Visual Arts

Student creating illustrations on Apple Mac computers

Level 3 Creative & Visual Arts

Students using SLR cameras photographing in the studio with lighting

Level 3 Photography & Digital Imaging

Other Areas of Interest

Computer suite where student sits at a computer drawing in a sketch book. In the background are students wearing headphones working at computers

Digital, Media & Games

Back of a student sat at a mixing desk with sliders and coloured lights. In the background is a DJ with decks and a laptop, with smoke and purple and blue stage lighting

Production Arts