Wednesdays 6 – 9pm
10 weeks Fee £250
THIS COURSE IS FULL.
This intensive online practical course will be conducted over ten weeks on Wednesdays and will explore the ways of making landscape painting. The course will also involve looking at the way landscape, which is probably the oldest genre in painting, has been used from cave painting right through to abstract painting.
Participating artists will begin by developing drawings and sketches of a landscape, either plein-air or from photographs, exploring ideas about landscape, such as a sense of place, topography, the psychological landscape and more empirical issues such as optical and colour values, arriving at the point, hopefully, where an idea or view of a landscape is realised in a painting(s).
Above paintings by Peter Ashton Jones ©Peter Ashton JonesThe course will be conducted on ZOOM, which has proved to be highly successful for tutors at The Essential School of Painting, because it enables access to reference material online. ZOOM also allows participants to share their work very easily and a part of the day will be spent discussing and exploring each other’s work.
Drawing on the history of landscape painting and a knowledge of painting, Peter Ashton Jones will show ways to deconstruct a landscape and to look at what that landscape is and how it can be used to make a painting, whether it is of a place or of something other than just that place. The aim will be to develop your 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 day will include individual tutorials as well as group discussion .
About Peter Ashton Jones
In his own words…
“I’m in the studio almost every day, and usually begin the day with two or three hours of thinking, almost as if I’m finding or retracing my way back into a painting…”
– Peter Ashton Jones
Solo Exhibitions
2015 The Notebook Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, London
2011 The Eye of the Blackbird Standpoint Gallery, London
2007 Feasting Indoors V22, London
2006 January Standpoint Gallery, London
1999 New Paintings Standpoint Gallery, London
1998 New Paintings Ko Raw Gallery, London
1996 Cutting A Surface Islington Arts Factory, London
1994 Pieces from A Puzzle Unit D1 Minet Road, London
