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Course Dates May 8th - 10th (Wed - Friday) 2024
On this three day practical course we will explore how digital photography can be used as a valuable resource for landscape painting. Unless you are a plein air painter it is likely that you are making paintings in a studio away from the landscape, in this case photographic sources can help with what can be a visual deficit. One of the great advantages of digital photography is the ability to zoom in, and to be able to explore the subject in ways that are rooted in its image. By zooming in and cropping the photograph we find image possibilities of which were unaware at the time we took the photograph. Bolder, simpler compositions may often be found, but also the experience of entering into the image has its own rich reward.
Start Date | 08-May-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 10-May-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £325.00 |
Course Details | Landscape Drawing and Painting from Photographic Sources - Nick Bodimeade 2024.pdf |
Course Dates May 13th - 15th (Monday - Wednesday) 2024
Experiments with close up observation, collage, spatial arrangement of forms, and layering and glazing methods.
Please be aware that oil paints and associated solvents are not permitted on this course.
A three-day course in which you will make a minimum of 2 large scale collages informed by research and resource drawings and paintings, made prior to commencement of the large scale works. The course will start with making a succession of drawings from close up observation of either house plants or some gathered flora and fauna or foliage in the garden. The drawings are done in order to establish shapes and forms which will then form part of a process which scales up these intimate details, shapes, forms, and spaces. They will then be used in different stages as ingrediants for making components for larger works, constructed through collage making processes and incorporating painting and glazing techniques. The goal will not be to produce ‘finished works’ but rather to think about new approaches to making images that artists can then take back into their own practice.
Start Date | 13-May-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 15-May-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £325.00 |
Course Details | organic_structures_2024.pdf |
Course Dates May 15th - 17th (Wednesday - Friday) 2024
Drawing with all your senses, using pencils and coloured pastels in the cathe-dral itself, you will be encouraged to make expressive and experimental stud-ies on a small scale as you directly experience the immensity of the building. Your drawings may be filled with gesture, colour, sound, the cool air, the touch of stone, the echoes of footsteps and organ music…. We can spend the whole day there, with one to one guidance, and group discussions about how we tackle such an enormous subject. Taking these back to the studio, you will have 2 more days to experiment, scaling up your marks and observa-tions onto large rolls of paper, letting the drawing grow and expand, as if you were the architect and builder constructing it in space.
Start Date | 15-May-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 17-May-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £325.00 |
Course Details | Chichester Cathedral 2024 with Katie Sollohub.pdf |
Course dates: May 29th - 31st 2024 (Wednesday to Friday)
10% discount if you book this and ‘The Figure in Movement : Painting (Colour and Gesture) Course’.
A three-day, intensive and experimental drawing course with 2 tutors, who specialise in drawing and creating inventive processes to encourage fresh ways of looking and creating images. Emily and Katie share their love of drawing as a process of exploration and discovery. This exciting course is a wonderful and unique opportunity for artists to explore the breadth and depth of drawing: working with charcoal, ink, simple animation, collage, installation, working on both very large and small scale, different surfaces and in collaboration with the model and other the artists.
Start Date | 29-May-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 31-May-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £450.00 |
Course Details | The Figure in Movement - Expressive Drawing May 2024 -V2.pdf |
Course dates: June 4th - 7th 2024 (Tuesday to Friday)
10% discount if you book this and ‘The Figure: An Intensive Experimental Drawing Course’.
A four day painting course with 2 tutors. Emily and Katie share their love of painting as a process of exploration and discovery. This exciting course is an intense and unique opportunity to explore colour and gesture in response to the moving figure. The large space of the studio will be transformed using colour installations for the figure to move through and interact with. The walls will be generously covered with rolls of paper and canvas for the atists to work on. Students bring their own paints and brushes, but paper and canvas is all provided.
Start Date | 04-Jun-2024 9:30 am |
End Date | 07-Jun-2024 4:30 pm |
Price | £560.00 |
Course Details | The Figure in Movement - Expressive Painting June 2024.pdf |