ONLINE: Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 11 Jan to 22 Mar 2021

Monday Evenings 6-9pm

On this 10 week online course Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination. 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 you ways to break down the boundaries between the real and the imaginary in your work.

Fee £250 for 10 weeks. This course is limited to 10 participants.

Click image title below for ongoing online exhibition of previous students

Above image: The Pomegranates by Issa Nash 2020 Oil and collage on board

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, i.e. if you do 3 term sessions, with the view to completing a major new work or number of works which will be exhibited in End of Year Exhibition in July-August 2021.

Pandora's Box, 2020
61 x 76 x 1.5 cm (h x w x d)
Oil on canvas
Pandora’s Box by Lucy Hensel 2020 61 x 76 x 1.5cm Oil on canvas

About The Essential School Of Painting

The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) is an alternative art school based in Wood Green, London, specialising in painting and drawing classes taught by leading contemporary artists. The ESOP offers exciting, intellectually rigorous courses with the intention of advancing painting. Classes are available for all levels of experience.