ONLINE: The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: Thursday 4 May to 8 Jun 2023

Thursday evenings 6 to 9pm

The aim of this 6 week 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 £180

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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 6 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 Andrew Wamae

Andrew Wamae is the Director and co-founder of the Essential School of Painting (ESOP). He has a deeply held belief in the power of art to transform lives and society, and a particular interest in exploring new models for art education beyond school; championing the twin ideals of excellence and affordability in a highly pressurised sector when university fees are soaring and student/ tutor contact time is at an all time low. Andrew is particularly keen to ensure that the visual arts continue to be supported and thrive well. A creative, innovative and visionary professional, Andrew, in conjunction with his co-founder Alison Harper, has transformed the Essential School of Painting from humble beginnings to an established institution holding from one-day to year-long courses and workshops for all levels of experience; from beginners to postgraduate and professional artists. He has managed to enlist the support of a long list of celebrated artists from multiple fields in the creative industry to teach or lecture at the school or in their studios.