Tutors: Dan Coombs and Sikelela Owen
Painting Personal Projects is a programme taught Dan Coombs, Sikelela Owen and guest tutors. It’s aim is to give students an opportunity to develop their own work whilst 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. Dan and Sikelela will help each student clarify and develop their short and long term goals.
THIS COURSE IN NOW FULL
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Nude 2012 by Dan Coombs 
School Daze by Sikelela Owen
THE COURSE IN DETAIL
Course Timetable
- September Term: 03 Oct to 12 Dec 2020 – Half Term 24 October
- January Term: 16 Jan to 27 Mar 2021 – Half Term 20 February
- April Term: 24 Apr to 3 July 2021 – Half Term 29 May
- Exhibition Week
Painting materials are included in your course fee except for canvas which you can buy from us in the studio at cost price.
About the tutors
Dan Coombs 
Sikelela ‘Ziggy’ Owen
Dan Coombs
Dan 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>>>
Sikelela Owen
London born (1984) artist Sikelela, known to her friends and family as Ziggy, is a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design (2009) and the Royal Academy (2012). A multi-award winner, she is the recipient of The Elephant Lab residency award (2019), Dover Street Arts Club award (2011), Richard Ford Award (2010) and Prado Museum Travel and Drawing Award, Madrid Spain (2010) and Nichol Young Foundation Award (2009) >>> read more >>>
