About Course
Artist tutors: Guy Allott and Rosanna Dean
Please book early to avoid disappointment.
Fee: Annual £2025 Fee per term £745
The Painting Year II is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters. The intention of the course is to inject your practice with inspiration, enable you to try new approaches and materials, and as part of an artist’s community, participate in a discourse about contemporary painting while grounding methods and ideas in your own experience.
This course is designed for those with prior experience and not beginners. You may be self-taught or you have been to art school. Many artists in recent years would like to paint but may not have the technical and/or intellectual support to do so, this course will provide you with what you need to learn, practise and develop your painting.
Course timetable
Term Dates
October Term 3 Oct to 12 Dec 2023 – Half term 24 October
January Term 9 Jan to 19 Mar 2024 – Half Term 13 February
April Term 16 April to 25 Jun 2024 – Half Term 28 May
End of Year Exhibition Date 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.
Rosanna Dean
Rosanna Dean b.1988 is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (2019), BA (Hons) Painting Camberwell College of Art (2013) and studied Old Master painting at the Angel Academy Florence. She recently returned from Kerala, researching Theyyam ritual and Indian temples. Her practice addresses conflicting ideologies surrounding representations of the divine. Seeking to establish connections between the ways in which societies have depicted religious belief over time, she combines the features of divergent practices from East to West to create work with a contemporary spiritualism