Guy Allott RCA and Dan Coombs RCA outside TheESOP
The Painting Year is a practical course for those looking to advance their practise, developing their skills and content – guided by two experienced and celebrated painters Dan Coombs RCA and Guy Allott RCA .
The course aims to provide painters with a community and mentoring whilst actively engaging with painting language, opening doors to untried possibilities. Inject your practise with inspiration, try new approaches and materials such as resin and encaustic.
Treasure 1 by Lucy Marston 2018 Oil on canvas
As part of an artist’s community of twelve plus assistant you will be encouraged to participate in a discourse about contemporary painting while grounding methods and ideas in your own experience. You will be given stimulating looking, watching and reading lists and have the option to exhibit in our end of year show at the Art Pavilion, Mile End Park. If in doubt as to whether this course is right for you, please write to us use the form at the bottom of this page.
Annual Fee £1750 Fee per term £675
2 places available.
There is a separate fee of £85 to participate in the End of Year Show 2019.
Bookings are available for the whole year or on a term by term basis. Basic art materials are included and you will be given a list of some specialist materials to buy when needed. This class in limited to no more 12 students plus an assistant to ensure quality student tutor contact time.
This course is suitable for Intermediate to advanced participants
what does this mean?
Coleman’s Cave by Nuala Flynn 2018 Oil on canvas
The course is designed for those with some prior experience of painting. You may be self-taught or you may even have been to art school. With painting these distinctions no longer hold. Many artists who have been to art school in recent years would like to paint but were not given the technical and/or intellectual support to do so and would therefore turn to other mediums. However once taken by the desire to paint it is hard to shake off. If you are in this category either The Foundation Painting Year or The Painting Year will provide you with what you need, to learn about, practise and develop your painting.
Term One:Tributary Streams – Approaches to painting
Term one consists of a different project every one to two weeks involving starting points both technical and ideas-based including; experimenting with different surfaces, painting from memory, advanced colour workshop, exploring woodcuts, drawing performance and the model, narrative in painting and collage.
Term Two:The River and the Reservoir– Inspiration: looking and making
Ghost of History by Nuala Flynn
Seeking input and inspiration from outside ourselves we will spend two weeks drawing in gallery tours both contemporary and historical including from world art as found in The British Museum. Further technical elements of painting will be explored including how to use resin, encaustic, tempera and masking . There will be projects exploring subject matter such as the symbolism of buildings real or imagined. During the last three weeks of this term the focus will be on personal practise with continuing individual tuition.
The Ship and the Sea: Making and showing
Term Three
These weeks will be devoted primarily to personal practice with one to one tuition and group crits. The emphasis will be on developing and consolidating ideas and progress made in terms one and two and developing a body of work. There will be the option to participate in the end of year show at the beautiful contemporary art space The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park. Towards the end of the course we will look at professional practise, how to apply for funding, exhibitions and the potential of social media to showcase our work.
Throughout the course Guy and Dan will provide slide shows of artworks when relevant.
Please note: If you are interested in learning about painting techniques and materials from the ground up then the Foundation Painting Year is a comprehensive course on all you need to know from colour mixing to stretching canvasses, painting large and small and how to generate ideas. This course is also taught by Dan Coombs and Guy Allott. If in doubt please contact us for a chat on the phone and/or write to us using the form above.
Should you have any questions please use the following form to get in touch with us.
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