Embrace your creative side and develop your skills with a range of art forms, at EKC Dover College.
Creative and Design
Full time courses
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Industry standard facilities
Mac Computer Suite
With access to the Adobe Creative Suite, the Macs are where you’ll create stunning photos, digital designs and mood boards to suit your artistic vision.
Art Room
For those interested in painting, sculpture and drawing, the Art Room is your space.
Paints, easels, clays, and a printing press available for you to use, mean that you can transfer your imagination to a range of physical mediums.
Photography Studio
In addition to interchangeable backdrops and lighting rigs, a collection of analog and digital cameras ensure you’ll learn to take captivating photos.
Explore our Studios
with Level 3 students
In the video, Level 3 Art and Design students Nicola and Amy, show you the facilities and how these are used in College.
Thanks to the course, Nicola is looking at animation, and Amy is loving the art of sculpture.
Discover your creativity
At College, you’ll be able to take part in a wide range of specialisms so that you can find the one that suits your artistic passion.
Recently, students collaborated with Artswork and Timothy Smithen, a local doodle artist, to create some pieces for the Student Centre.
Artswork will link closely with you during your time at College, helping you discover your creativity with events such as the Creative Careers Cafe.
Make a difference with your art
Students have been working on two projects to make a difference in the local community this term.
The first was decorating Christmas baubles which will be sold to raise money for the Dover smART Project.
They’ve also helped the Future Foundry create and repair their lanterns ahead of the Winter Festival in December.
Work with industry experts
On the Art and Design courses, you’ll work with local and national companies on exciting briefs and competitions.
This year, students took part in a branding challenged, organised by Blaze Signs.
For this, they had to create a concept and design a new restaurant brand.
Other industry partners we have recently worked with include:
Present your work at an End of Year Show
Painting
Develop painting skills and techniques using oil, acrylic and watercolour paints.
Ceramics
Build designs with clay to create a unique range of ceramic art pieces.
Animation
Create stunning short and long films using a range of stop-motion, claymation and motion graphics techniques and softwares.
Drawing and Sketching
Turn your craftmanship into artwork that turns heads, with a range of tools available.
Sculpture
Whatever your inspired by, turn your dreams into a 3D reality with the art of Sculpture.
Photography
Take captivating photographs before formatting and editing to your vision, with access to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom.
Inside the EKC Dover College End of Year Art Exhibition: A celebration of student creativity
8 July 2025
Explore the creativity of EKC Dover College students at the End of Year Art Show, with standout projects featured in Cene magazine.
Be taught by Professional Artists
Our creative courses allow flexibility for learners to develop their individuality and confidence through hands-on learning, providing a comprehensive grounding in a range of creative and design disciplines.
Our students are taught by highly qualified tutors, who are professional artists that regularly participate in exhibitions.
Jacob Weeks, Programme Director, is a talented and established artist and photographer. He is also the co-founder of photographic collective, ‘Void’.
His work was also part of this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Ascension Lorente Huguet, Lecturer, is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist, who specialises in Fine Art.
The Dover Beacon Project
The Dover Beacon Project is an exciting initiative which is seeing the redevelopment of an area of Bench Street in Dover.
The project will see a creative centre home to a studio and exhibition space for local creatives developed, alongside an educational campus that will provide training opportunities in creative industries.
The project is funded by UK Government.
How you apply for a course at EKC Dover College
Step 1 – Find a subject you’re interested in
Explore our range of subject areas on our website and find a course that interests you.
Step 2 – Apply
Click ‘Apply’ and then follow the steps on the Kent Choices application portal.
Step 3 – Come to an Applicant Day
Come along to an Applicant Day in College, where you’ll discover what studying is like and if the course is right for you.
Career prospects
Example:
Artists
£
£42,640
Annual pay
Annual pay is per year, based on full-time employment and on the South East region.
Role description
Artists create artistic works using appropriate techniques, materials and media; design artwork and illustrations; and restore damaged pieces of art.
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Creative Careers you can get into
19 June 2024
Here are just some of the creative careers you can explore through studying Creative and Design at EKC Dover College.
“I like the opportunities that the course gives me.
“We get taken on trips to places like the Turner Contemporary, so we can see what other artists have produced to help us to feel inspired.
“This has helped me express my feelings and interests well when it comes to my own artwork.
“The course is so good that I travel from Sheppey every day to learn here.”
George
Level 2 Art and Design
“College has given me really good opportunities. By being here, my work ended up being in the Turner Contemporary and I’ve managed to get my art into Cene magazine.
“I’ve done screen printing, collaging, learnt how to work digitally and studied so much more than just drawing.
“My advice for those studying Art would be to definitely go to EKC Dover College. It’s a great community, full of great people and it’s one of the best places you can go.”
Nicola
Level 3 Art and Design
“I think this course is great, even if you’re a beginner at art.
“Everyone supports each other and we work together to share what we know.
“For example, my friend Lucy was amazing with Illustrator and Photoshop, and she taught me how to use them properly. In return, I helped her with shading techniques in drawing.
“It’s really collaborative. Even if you feel like you’re not very good at art, you’ll be surrounded by and meet people with different strengths.”
Amy
Level 3 Art and Design
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