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Life Drawing and Painting
9:30am-12:30pm Nigel Caple £190
This course uses the human form as a starting point and encourages you to explore your pictorial response to it. You will have the opportunity to examine the diverse methods that are available and learn about their appropriate use. In a very relaxed milieu your tutor will combine traditional and modern approaches to the subject. All levels welcome.
Painting from Photographs
10am-1pm Jan Malaszek £175
Students will work photographs, found images and digitally altered images. The premise of the class will be not to simply reproduce photographs but to produce painting using photographs as a starting point. To further this we will look at the work of a range of painters, both abstract and representational. We will explore techniques of painting, composition and colour. Materials: oils, acrylics or pastel.
Abstract and Open Painting
10am–1pm (Morning Class) Ake Arnerdal £175
This class will introduce you to the to the world of abstract painting. We will explore the areas between figurative and abstract painting . You will be able to see how artists develop their own imagery from sketch to finished painting. The expression of mood through colour, composition and line will be an integral part of the course.
Portraiture and Life Sculpture
10:30am-1:30pm Paul Badger £190**
This course is designed for the beginners as well as the more experienced students. For the first part of the term we will work on a portrait head. The second half of the term we will work from a full figure, nude model. Work will made from clay and fired.
Afternoon
Experimental Sculpture
2-5pm Paul Badger £165
You will be able to develop your ideas into an abstract or figurative form, or explore another process. Those wishing to continue their work from the morning class (see above) will be able to do so.
Painting Projects
2pm-5pm Jan Malazek £175
Each term students will be able to explore two chosen themes through painting. Students will receive guidance on developing ideas in a structured way (with drawing, collage, photography, looking at the work of other artists) through to developing ideas to fully realised pieces of work.
Abstract and Open Painting
2-5pm (Afternoon Class) Ake Arnerdal £175
This class will introduce you to the to the world of abstract painting. We will explore the areas between figurative and abstract painting . You will be able to see how artists develop their own imagery from sketch to finished painting. The expression of mood through colour, composition and line will be an integral part of the course.
Portraiture and the Clothed Figure
2:30-5:30pm (Afternoon Class) Vincent Milne £180
You will be working from a model and be encouraged to study both the anatomical and pictorial possibilities it presents. Vincent will guide you in examining the characteristics that are unique to your model, enabling you to develop an expressive image of their personality. You will explore different painting methods, drawing, tone and colour mixing. Materials: Oils.
Evening
First Time Painters
6.30-9:30pm Nigel Caple £175
This class is designed to develop student’s technical skills in both painting and drawing. We will follow a step by step approach to various traditional subject matter like the still life, landscape and the human form. There will also be practical colour mixing skills taught and basic colour theory studied. Materials: Acrylic paint.
Jewellery Making and Design
6:30-9:30pm Drew Perridge £185*
Complete beginners can learn how to design and make their own jewellery. Basic techniques will be covered including saw piercing, filing, soldering, texturing, and the forming of metal. Brass and copper will be used initially moving onto silver. as confidence grows. Techniques will be shown by demonstration.
Portraiture and the Clothed Figure
6.30-9:30pm (Evening Class) Vincent Milne £185
You will be working from a model and be encouraged to study both the anatomical and pictorial possibilities it presents. Vincent will guide you in examining the characteristics that are unique to your model, enabling you to develop an expressive image of their personality. You will explore different painting methods, drawing, tone and colour mixing. Materials: Oils.
*Includes costs of basic materials, but not precious metals.
**Sculpture Course materials fee £10 (includes clay and firing)
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