About Course
Artist- tutors: Guy Allott and Joana Galego
All art materials are included on the course with exception of canvas that can be purchased from the school. For course details see below.
Two term fee £1400 Term fee £745
Saturdays 10am to 5pm
It is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing a body of work. The artists on this programme are all practising and exhibiting artists who are working on their own projects and are here to help each student clarify and develop their short and long term goals. You will individually work on your own projects and as a group work on similar agreed goals. With this comes tutored classes, group discussions, crits and an End of Year Exhibition for those who book both terms.
Course timetable
Term Dates
January Term 13 Jan to 23 Mar 2024 – Half Term 18 February
April Term 20 April to 29 Jun 2024 – Half Term 3 June
End of Year Exhibition Dates TBC
About the artist-tutors
Guy Allott
London based Artist Guy Allott was born in the market town of Hexham Northumberland in 1972, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), Guy 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.
Joana’s creative interests revolve around language, exploring the multifaceted aspects of love, its various forms, and the enigmatic spaces left by its absence. She delves into the human psyche’s simultaneous hesitancy and excitement when confronted with matters of the heart. Joana is fascinated by drawing’s intricate dance with imperfection and its beautiful relationship with failure. Today, her artistic process is centred on memories, keen observational studies, and, indeed, old photographs.