Tuesday evenings 6pm to 9pm
The course will be conducted over 10 weeks in three hour sessions and will, amongst other things, look at artists who invented the dazzle technique. Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings.
“Starting with drawings of our architectural surroundings, we will develop optical effects by putting together patterns that trigger a confusion in the picture plane. High visual intensity pattern can be used as a device, in this course we will learn how to use it to our own sensibility, which may find subtler overt applications. As a device, pattern, repetition, and decoration can be found in a broad range of painters. From the haunting pure abstraction of Tomma Abts to Gustav Klimt, who uses areas of intensity with figurative paintings as a way of creating density in his work”
Vicky Wright
Fee £275
Please note our online evening classes fill up quickly so if you are interested in this course we advise early booking to avoid disappointment.
RETURNING STUDENTS: Whereas we may look again at artists like Abts and Klimt we also look at a new set of artists during this new session.
Slideshow of student work Jan-Mar 2021
About the artist…
My painting practice is mainly an investigation into Abstract Expressionism. I work very intuitively and initially with no plans or subject matter. But more than work, I play! Initially my approach is experimental and open to any possibility. Colour and gesture are my constant search, using oils or acrylics and sometimes both. Although my work is non-representational there are recurrent themes that appear in my work without intention. Such as weather evocation, imaginary creatures, buildings or houses. And when these appear, I am finding myself handling a visual poetry contrasting these two worlds: the abstract and the figurative. Some of my work at a later can take a more conceptual turn, specially with my mixed media work with photography or my paintings on domestic fabrics. My main interests are around the idea of home, the domestic space, motherhood and childhood, as well as womanhood, capitalism, ecology and how everything is interconnected.
Vicky Wright
Bolton born (1967), Vicky makes work that is dense and iconoclastic, overpowering in its purpose and preoccupied with the apparatus of power; labour and mobilisation in the industrial British north, patriarchy and opportunity and the provisional relationship between technology and the planet.
She is a graduate of the RCA (1993) and Goldsmith MFA Fine Art (2008). She has exhibited regularly having solo and group shows in the UK and internationally. Vicky’s five solo shows with the Josh Lilly Gallery London include the most recent ‘Hard-Light Hologram’ in 2020.
Group shows include the John Moores Painting Prize, the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, the Jerwood Painting Prize, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie Vienna, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven Germany and the Whitechapel Gallery London. We are delighted to have her teach with us at the ESOP.
Clean Hands Extraction Principle, 2020, Oil on linen over aluminium panel, 169x119cms
