Thursdays 10-5pm
Artist-tutors: Alison Harper and Rosemary Beaton
Please note as long as spaces are available classes can be started at anytime we will calculate fees pro-rata – Limited places available.
Two Term Fee £1270 Term £675
This course qualifies for our ESOP Christmas New Year offer (See below)
This course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways. During the course we will work from the live model and sources other than life including photographs, film stills, drawings, memory and imagination, aiming to explore experimental approaches to making images and being open to unexpected and expressive results building up to completing a body of work.
Our Tutors
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 founding TheESOP in 2004.
The holder of multiple awards including the Commonwealth Scholarship, Alison has exhibited widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad >>> read more >>>
Rosemary Beaton
Rosemary studied at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art graduating with a 1st Class BA Honours degree. As one of “The Glasgow Girls” she played a part in the resurgence of figurative painting that emerged at that time, culminating in Rosemary becoming the first scot and the youngest person to win the prestigious (John Player) National Portrait Award (1984). Rosemary’s work has become synonymous with colourful and highly personal figurative works which combines supreme draughtsman-ship with an unusual and individual colour sense. The humour and odd juxtaposition of people and places is irresistible with the individual works displaying a celebration and a love of life that is rare and welcome at a time when painting per se and happiness as subject matter were and are on the defensive.
