Painting Personal Projects is a programme taught Dan Coombs with the support of Alison Harper. 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 will help each student clarify and develop their short and long term goals.
The course is now on it’s 5th year and is limited to 12 participants.
THE COURSE IN DETAIL
Course Timetable
- Saturdays 10am to 5pm
- April Term: 25 Apr to 04 July 2020 – Half Term 30 May
- If you have any questions or want more information please email our admin team using the form at the bottom of this page.
You will be expected to provide your own material although, if the need arises, you will be given a list of some specialist materials to buy to accomplish your project.
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 >>>read more>>>
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, acontributing 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>>>
