On this 10 week online course Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination.
THIS COURSE IS FULLY BOOKED Next session will start in summer 2020. Please use the form at the bottom of this page to be placed on the waiting list.
Often it is quite difficult to find a way in to working from the imagination. How can you create a parallel world in painting, one that expresses the unconscious, the dream, or the hidden parts of the self? Drawing on many devices developed from surrealism and other twentieth century artists, Dan Coombs will show ways to break down the boundaries between the real and the imaginary in your work.
Each week will begin with the discussion of a different artist for half an hour. Work will be made in response to this, and the session will end with a discussion of everyone’s work.
The aim will be to develop you work in new, exciting and experimental ways, learning devices and techniques that can then be taken back to the studio and developed to push your work in a newly imaginative direction.
The course will take place termly with a possibility to sign up for a year with the view to completing a major new work or number of works which will be exhibited in the Mile End Pavilion in December 2020
Some of the artists that will be drawn on through the course: Max Ernst, Henry Darger, Joseph Cornell, Maria Lassnig, Hieronymous Bosch.
