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Dazzle – Hide and Seek painting with Vicky Wright: 20 Apr to 29 Jun 2021
The course will be conducted over 10 weeks in three hour sessions and will, amongst other things, look at artists who invented the dazzle technique. Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings.
Painting People: The Figure and Portrait – Thursdays 7 Oct 2021 to 30 June 2022
This course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways.
ONLINE: Contemporary Fine Art Practice: 01 Oct 2021 to 01 July 2022
The Contemporary Fine Art course is aimed at a broad range of artists and levels of experience and seeks to develop a community where practical and theoretical skills can be explored and established with emphases on making, presenting, talking and thinking about art.
LANDSCAPE: A DOMAIN FOR PAINTING with Peter Ashton Jones: 10 Mar – May 12 2021
Drawing on the history of landscape painting and a knowledge of painting, Peter Ashton Jones will show ways to deconstruct a landscape and to look at what that landscape is and how it can be used to make a painting, whether it is of a place or of something other than just that place.
Dazzle – Hide and Seek painting with Vicky Wright: Tuesdays 9 – 30 Mar 2021 6-9pm
Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings.
Online Course: Ordinarily odd; the everyday with Archie Franks – 13th Jan to 24th Mar: 6-9pm
In this course we will look at artists who examine the everyday such as Wayne Theibaud, Alex Katz and Eduard Manet. We will look at our own everyday, our immediate surroundings and situations.
Painting People: The Figure and Portrait – Thurs 14 Jan to 25 Mar 2021
This course will be taught by Alison Harper and visiting artists including National portrait award winner Rosemary Beaton. The course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways.
The Fundamentals of Painting: Materials, Methods & Ideas 11 Jan – 28 Jun 2021
(LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE) The Foundation Painting Year is a practical course which aims to fill in all the gaps you never knew you had in your understanding and practise of the age old activity of manipulating colour on a surface called painting.
The Painting Year I: 12 Jan – 29 Jun 2021 Tuesdays 10-5pm
The Painting Year is a practical course for those looking to advance their practise, developing their skills and content whilst being guided by two experienced and celebrated painters Dan Coombs RCA and Guy Allott RCA
LANDSCAPE: A DOMAIN FOR PAINTING with Peter Ashton Jones – Sat 23 Jan 2021
This intensive one-day online practical course will explore ways of making landscape painting. It will also involve looking at the way landscape which is probably the oldest genre in painting, has been used from cave painting right through to abstract painting.
The aim of this course is to develop the skills required to produce sketchbooks which are an inspiration, and which contain all the nuts and bolts of experimentation.
