ONLINE: The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: 16 Feb to 20 Apr 2023

Thursday evenings 6 to 9pm

The aim of this course is to develop the skills required to produce sketchbooks which are an inspiration, and which contain all the nuts and bolts of experimentation.

Fee £280

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A sketchbook – like life – should reflect the life and times of the artist, including the mishaps and the triumphs. They should be both revealing and indecipherable, ultimately assisting the artist in mastering their creativity. Through the course there will be tasks which lead you into new territories of ideas and approaches to image making, some may appear collaborative and others as a result of private study, some may appear alien some familiar. What is importantly, however, is you will develop a process which will sustain you throughout your creative practices.

Sketch-book ( Guy Allott)

During the 10 weeks we will explore several themes with each session having an in-depth discussion on relevant artist, working on your sketchbook and individual discussions/crits.

About the artist-tutor

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.

Guy Allot

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 Spaceships¹. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature²; 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 contemporary³.

Today Guy’s work appears in private and public collections in Europe, The United States and Asia including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Royal Society, The British Library Collection, Fidelity and the UBS Art Collection.

Guy is the recipient of the First Base Award from ACAVA  (2003) and is one of the founders of IntoArts a charity that teaches painting and the arts to students with learning disabilities.

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About The Essential School Of Painting

The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) is an alternative art school based in Wood Green, London, specialising in painting and drawing classes taught by leading contemporary artists. The ESOP offers exciting, intellectually rigorous courses with the intention of advancing painting. Classes are available for all levels of experience.