THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL.
Should you like to discuss alter arrangement or advice on an alternate class please email us on admin@theesop.com
10am to 5pm
Annual Fee £1750 Fee per term £675.
V&A March ’18 by Wendy Rolt Acrylic on canvas 2018
Welcome to Painting Personal Projects 2018-19 with the Artistic Director and founder of The Essential School of Painting Alison Harper. Painting Personal Projects is a yearlong programme taught and supervised by Alison Harper and select group of visiting artists and members of our faculty. The course gives students an opportunity to develop their own work receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists and is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing a body of work. Alison and the invited tutors aim to help each student to clarify and develop their short and long term goals.
This highly demanded course is now on it’s 4th year. This class in limited to 12 students and an assistant. You will be expected to provide your own material though we do provide basic art materials; depending on the project that you are involved in if the need arises you will be given a list of some specialist materials to buy to accomplish your project.
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- Rosa Parks II by Georgia Lepper 2018
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- Man and Sea II by John Heywood-Waddington 2018
End of Year Exhibition.
At the end of the academic year we will hold an End of Year Exhibition. There is a separate fee of £85 to participate. For more on this click here
About Alison Harper: 
Alison is the Artistic Director and Founder¹ of The Essential School of Painting. An exceptional multi-talented artist, Alison is a graduate of the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and is known as one of ‘The Glasgow Girls’ The holder of multiple awards including the Commonwealth Scholarship, Alison has exhibited widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad. She was the invited artist to the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2016, a contributing author to the recently published ‘Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists’ and the Art Consultant to the BBC ONE Show ‘The Big Painting Challenge (Series 1 & 2) and the lead for the Essential School of Painting partnership with the Waltham Forest for London’s Mayor London Borough of Culture bib – Waltham Forest is London’s Borough of Culture 2019 >>>read more>>>
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