Artist- tutors: Guy Allott and Alison Harper
Saturdays 10am to 5pm The term runs for 10 weeks
All art materials are included on the course with exception of canvas that can be purchased from the school. For course details see below.
Fees: £710
Painting Personal Projects is a programme that aims is to give you an opportunity to develop your own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists. It is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing a body of work. The artists on this programme are all practising and exhibiting artists who are working on their own projects and are here to help each student clarify and develop their short and long term goals. You will individually work on your own projects and as a group work on similar agreed goals. With this comes tutored classes, group discussions and crits
If you would like to discuss with us whether this class is suitable for your needs please fill in the form below.
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
| April Term | 22 April to 01 Jul 2023 – Half Term 3 June |
About the artist-tutors
Guy Allott
Alison Harper
Guy Allott
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 Spaceships. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature; 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 contemporary. Read more >>>
Alison Harper
An exceptional multi-talented artist, Alison is a graduate of the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and is known as one of ‘The Glasgow Girls’. Alison is credited with being one of the youngest lecturers to have taught in the Painting and Printmaking departments of the Glasgow School of Art teaching there over a period of ten years before co-founding TheESOP in 2004. The holder of multiple awards including the Commonwealth Scholarship, Alison has exhibited widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Selected exhibitions & Awards include invited artist to the Royal Scottish Academy annual exhibition May 2016; The National Portrait Gallery, London; The Royal Academy, London; Leicester City Art Gallery; Stirling Museum; The Boundary Gallery, London; The Compass Gallery, Glasgow; The Collins Gallery, Glasgow ;The City Arts Centre, Edinburgh; The Graphic Museum of Tokyo, Japan; The India Today Gallery New Delhi, India and The National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi. Alison is a recipient of numerous Scholarships and awards including the Commonwealth Scholarship, Norwegian Government Scholarship, the Cheltenham Drawing Prize, Ruth Davidson Memorial Award and The Prince’s Drawing School Bursary Award. Alison is included in the following publications, Who’s Who in Art and Who’s Who of Women in the World >>> read more >>>
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