ONLINE EVENING COURSE: The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: Thursdays 19 Oct to 14 Dec 2023 (6-9pm)

Fee for 9 Thursdays £270

This 9-week course aims to help you develop the skills needed for creating sketchbooks that inspire and contain a variety of experiments. Just like life, a sketchbook should reflect an artist’s journey, including both the challenges and successes. They should reveal and puzzle at the same time, ultimately helping artists master their creativity. Throughout the course, you’ll tackle tasks that introduce you to new ideas and ways of making images. Some tasks might involve collaboration, while others are meant for personal exploration. What’s important is that you’ll develop a process to guide you in your creative endeavors.

Above: Extracts from sketchbooks (L2R)of Athy, Hector and Tessa - Class of 2022-23

During these 9 weeks, we’ll explore various themes. In each session, we’ll discuss relevant artists in depth, work on your sketchbook, and have individual and group discussions and critiques.

To book click the registration tab below. Please note this course has limited spaces so book early to avoid disappointment4

About Guy Allott

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.

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 Spaceships. By 2009 Guy work was exploring and subverting traditional representations of landscape in relation to man’s desire to explore and control nature; 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 contemporary. 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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Imaginary Ingleborough by Guy Allott Dec ’94
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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.