About Course
Artist-tutor: Johanna Melvin
This course runs fortnightly on Sundays from 10am to 4.30pm, at our ESOP studios in Wood Green. There are six sessions per term.
Two term fee £915 Term Fee £485
Through a series of days held fortnightly in the spacious school studio, you will have one-to-one tutorials and group discussions, focused on developing your personal areas of inquiry and intuitive response in your painting practice. The course will also provide guidance and teaching about various key painting methods and relevant processes and materials and is aimed at a range of levels of experience, helping those new to abstraction to find a way into their practice, whilst those already experienced will find support in further formulating and sustaining their practical research areas, developing skills, techniques and building confidence. The main focus of the course is practical, however also included are presentations and debate about the context, history and various discourses surrounding the genre.
Please note: although participants may be new to abstraction, some previous experience in painting is advisable.
Course timetable
TERM DATES
January Term 7 Jan to 17 Mar 2024
April Term 14 April to 23 Jun 2024
End of Year Exhibition Date TB
About the artist-tutor
Johanna Melvin 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, printers and fabricators on the production of limited editions, commissioned produced and sold in support of the gallery programme. Throughout this time Jo continued to make her own work, exhibiting at The Royal Academy of Art and Flowers Gallery, as well as The Contemporary Art Society and others. From 2017-2018 Johanna co-tutored with Bob and Roberta Smith, RA OBE on Painting The Bigger Picture, followed by two years co-tutoring with Alex J Pollard on the Intuitive Abstraction Year.