Artist-tutor: Johanna Melvin
Fortnightly on Sundays 10.30am to 4.30pm six sessions per term
Fees: £440
Prepare yourself for fully immersive days incorporating experimentation, play, technical guidance and detailed discussion designed to develop your understanding and facility as an abstract painter. The course offers a fortnightly forum in which you will be encouraged to begin – or further build – your practice as an abstract painter.
Through a series of days held fortnightly you will have one to one tutorials and group discussions, focused on developing your personal areas of inquiry and intuitive response in your painting practice. It will also provide guidance and teaching about the various painting methods, processes and materials relevant to the practice.
The course is aimed at a range of levels of experience, helping those new to abstraction to find a way into their practice, whilst those already experienced will find support in formulating and sustaining their practical research area, developing skills and techniques, and building confidence.
Although the main focus of the course is practical, also included are presentations and debates about the contexts, history and various discourses surrounding the subject of abstract painting.
About the artist-tutor
Johanna Melvin was born in Limehouse, east London and worked for many years as a self-taught illustrator before studying BA Hons (Fine Art) at The School of Art, Architecture & Design, (London Guildhall University at that time).
From 2006 –15 Jo held the post of Editions Manager at the Whitechapel Gallery, working with leading contemporary artists, printers and fabricators on the production of limited editions, commissioned produced and sold in support of the gallery programme. Throughout this time Jo continued to make her own work, exhibiting at The Royal Academy of Art and Flowers Gallery, as well as The Contemporary Art Society and others.
From 2017-2018 Johanna co-tutored with Bob and Roberta Smith, RA OBE on Painting The Bigger Picture, followed by two years co-tutoring with Alex J Pollard on the Intuitive Abstraction Year.
Jo is a board member of The Essential School of Painting >>> read more >>>
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