Wednesdays 10am to 5pm
Artist-tutors: Dan Coombs and Melissa Kime
The Painting Year II is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters. The intention of the course is to inject your practice with inspiration, enable you to try new approaches and materials, and as part of an artist’s community, participate in a discourse about contemporary painting while grounding methods and ideas in your own experience.
This course is designed for those with prior experience of painting. You may be self-taught or you may even have been to art school. With painting these distinctions no longer hold. Many artists who have been to art school in recent years would like to paint but were not given the technical and/or intellectual support to do so and would therefore turn to other mediums. However once taken by the desire to paint it is hard to shake off. If you are in this category this course will provide you with what you need to learn about, practice and develop your painting. You will be given stimulating looking, watching and reading lists and at the end of course invited to participate in the End of Year Student Exhibition.
This class is fully booked. If you would like more information on alternative classes please see our website or get in touch with the school by filling in the form at the bottom of this page.
Annual Fee £1925 Term Fee £710
Fees for bookings made after the start date will be calculated pro-rata and the difference refunded. Any questions please get in touch with the school.
This course is limited to 12 participants only. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
Course timetable dates
- Autumn Term: 06 Oct to 15 Dec 2021 – Half Term 27 October
- Spring Term: 12 Jan to 23 Mar 2022 – Half Term 16 February
- Summer Term: 20 April to 29 Jun 2022 – Half Term 1st June
- Exhibition Week – TBA
About the artist-tutors
Dan Coombs
Dan Coombs is a London based painter, a graduate of The Ruskin School, Oxford (1989-92) and the Royal College of Art (1992-94). He was Rome Scholar in painting British school in Rome (1994-5). He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Dan creates his compositions from studies in collage and paint, which unite his figures with entirely invented surroundings, landscape dream worlds and interior spaces. These are human encounters charged with a mysterious, symbolic power. They are explorations of guilt, beauty and fear of isolation; that draw on myth, religion and psychoanalysis in order to grasp the real within the imaginary. Read more >>>
Melissa Kime was born in Wiltshire UK in 1989 and currently lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA Fine Art in 2011 from Falmouth University, with a postgraduate diploma in drawing from the Royal Drawing School in 2013 and with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2015. She exhibited in Bloomberg New contemporaries, 2014 at the ICA London which was selected by Enrico David, Goshka Macuga and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and won the Arts Club award at The Royal Academy Summer Show, 2019. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad in both solo and group shows, she has won numerous prizes for both drawing and painting and her work is in many private collections. Read more >>>
