About Course
Artist-tutors: Johanna Melvin, Guy Allott and Joana Galego
Mondays 10am to 5pm 2 x 10 week terms
Two term fee £1400 Fee per term £745
All fees paid after the start date are pro-rata and the missed number of days refunded immediately. If you have any questions on this please contact the school.
The Painting Year I is a practical course which aims to fill in all the gaps you never knew you had in your understanding and practice of painting. It is suitable for beginners (with some experience) to intermediate level in painting. If in doubt contact the school. We will cover materials of painting beginning with surfaces, from traditional canvas and wood panels to newer materials such as aluminium and linoleum, moving through a range of types of paint including oil, acrylic, watercolour and the mediums and additives available for each, both traditional and recent developments
TERM DATES
January Term 8 Jan to 18 Mar 2024 – Half Term 12 February
April Term 15 April to 1 July 2024 –
Note 12 week term due to May Bank holiday on 6 May & Half Term 27 May
End of Year Exhibition Date TBA
About the artist-tutors
JOHANNA MELVIN
Johanna (Jo) was born in Limehouse, east London and worked for many years as a self-taught illustrator before studying BA Hons (Fine Art) at The School of Art, Architecture & Design, (London Guildhall University at that time).
From 2006 –15 Jo held the post of Editions Manager at the Whitechapel Gallery, working with leading contemporary artists, printmakers and curators to pioneer a programme of limited edition prints and objet d’art as fund-raisers for the Gallery.
GUY ALLOTT
London based Artist Guy Allott, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), is a versatile artist who works across several disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture and woodcuts.
As a young painter and sculptor Guy made playful cardboard maquettes of spaceships and paintings of surrealistic landscapes, sometimes combining the two in painted depictions of what he called Landscape Spaceships. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature; his paintings and sculptures present a fantastical merging of the philosophies of science and culture, offering a critique of historic social beliefs alongside an investigation into the contemporary.
JOANA GALEGO
Joana, born in 1994 in Cascais, a picturesque town nestled between the Sintra mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, in Lisbon district of Portugal, located along the Portuguese Riviera. Joana pursued her academic journey by focusing on Painting at the University of Lisbon. However, her artistic path took an intriguing turn when she relocated to London for the Drawing Year, driven by her desire to shift away from the use of childhood photographs as her primary artistic references.