The Picnic 2009 by Dan Coombs
Welcome to our Saturday Painting Group with Dan Coombs. An eight weeks course that gives students an opportunity to develop their own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists. This class is highly suitable for individuals looking to work on their painting but have other responsibilities or work schedules during week days.
Saturday mornings 13 January to 10 March – 10.30am to 1.30pm Half term 10 March 2018 – Half Term 17 February.
Fee £300
The course is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction, helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing a body of work. Dan’s aim is to help each student to clarify and develop short and long term goals. Student numbers have been deliberately limited to 6 to maximise on tutor contact time.
This class is for intermediate level students and above.
ABOUT DAN COOMBS
Dan Coombs was born in London in 1971, a graduate of Ruskin School, Oxford University (1989-92) and The Royal College of Art (1992-94). Dan was the Rome Scholar in Painting at the British School in Rome, Italy (1994-5).
Dan creates his compositions from studies in collage and paint , which unite his figures with entirely invented surroundings, landscape dream worlds and interior spaces. These are human encounters charged with a mysterious, symbolic power. They are explorations of guilt, beauty and fear of isolation, that draw on myth, religion and psychoanalysis in order to grasp the real within the imaginary…READ MORE>>>