Eight evenings £320 Materials included, although you may be recommended certain specialist materials and brushes to buy, this is optional
Experience level – All are welcome
Limited places available book early to avoid disappointment
Over the course of 8 weeks you will be guided through a variety of ways of using oil paint. You will explore different ways of applying paint and the effects that can be achieved in their combination. We will look at how paintings can be built up from coloured grounds, wiping away, modelling form with paint, glazing, different mediums and colour mixing. We will explore how we can use technical knowledge to great effect in a contemporary application as well as building confidence through experimentation and looking at artists’ work that we admire.
During the course we will cover surfaces, light, colour grammar, the effects of different brushes and other tools and more, to really make your paintings vibrate, equipping you with greater confidence and an array of skills to take forward in your painting.
About Rosanna Dean
Rosanna Dean b.1988 is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (2019), BA (Hons) Painting Camberwell College of Art (2013) and studied Old Master painting at the Angel Academy Florence.
She recently returned from Kerala, researching Theyyam ritual and Indian temples. Her practice addresses conflicting ideologies surrounding representations of the divine. Seeking to establish connections between the ways in which societies have depicted religious belief over time, she combines the features of divergent practices from East to West to create work with a contemporary spiritualism.
Dean is fascinated with the grotesque, and beauty and repulsion intermingle in her canvases. The figures become decontextualized, ambiguous, anonymous forms that hover in space. The body stripped of its individual identity becomes a vehicle for exploring shared fears and experiences. The common site where different perspectives, viewpoints and histories collide. Dean creates an open discourse in deciphering the objects on her canvas and installations, to probe our contemporary beliefs, and question what the body means to her viewer.
Having taken religious painting of the past as her starting point, Dean has spent time deeply researching how its transformative effects are achieved. Her research has led her to employ centuries old techniques of layers and glazing to achieve the desired luminosity and lifelikeness with her oils. Her most recent works re tell stories through installations and performance that ask her viewer to consider their relationship to materials and dependency on rapidly disappearing eco-systems.
She worked with Gregory Ryan alongside environmental organisations (2009-12) and with artist and activist Rashad Salim developing the Iraqi Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021).
