Thursday evenings 6 to 9pm
The aim of this course is to develop the skills required to produce sketchbooks which are an inspiration, and which contain all the nuts and bolts of experimentation.
A sketchbook – like life – should reflect the life and times of the artist, including the mishaps and the triumphs. They should be both revealing and indecipherable, ultimately assisting the artist in mastering their creativity. Through the course there will be tasks which lead you into new territories of ideas and approaches to image making, some may appear collaborative and others as a result of private study, some may appear alien some familiar. What is importantly, however, is you will develop a process which will sustain you throughout your creative practices.
This course is fully booked. If you would like information on future sessions or on other courses please use the form at the bottom of this page to get in touch with the school.
During the 10 weeks we will explore severalthemes with each session having an in-depth discussion on relevant artist, working on your sketchbook and individual discussions/crits.
Fee £275
Please note we advise early booking to avoid disappointment. This class gets quickly booked. The course will be conducted on ZOOM in a small class size of 10 to allow for a good amount of tutor time
Below slideshow of student work Jan-Mar & May-July 2021
Saving Amy by Catriona Danquah 2021 Gouache and Pastel on paper 
Untitled by Catherine Daly 2021 Charcoal and White chalk on A3 paper 
Untitled by Celia Young 2021 Collage and Acrylic on paper 
Untitled from Judith Dutton’s sketchbook (May to July 2021) 
IT from Angelina Davey’s sketchbook (May to July 2021)
About the artist-tutor
London based Artist Guy Allott was born in the market town of Hexham Northumberland in 1972, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), Guy is a versatile artist who works across several disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture and woodcuts. As a young painter and sculptor Guy made playful cardboard maquettes of spaceships and paintings of surrealistic landscapes,
sometimes combining the two in painted depictions of what he called Landscape Spaceships¹. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature²; his paintings and sculptures present a fantastical merging of the philosophies of science and culture, offering a critique of historic social beliefs alongside an investigation into the contemporary³.
Today Guy’s work appears in private and public collections in Europe, The United States and Asia including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Royal Society, The British Library Collection, Fidelity and the UBS Art Collection.
Guy is the recipient of the First Base Award from ACAVA (2003) and is one of the founders of IntoArts a charity that teaches painting and the arts to students with learning disabilities.
