Artist-tutors: Johanna Melvin, Guy Allott and Joana Galego
Term Fee £745
3 places remaining – All fees paid after the start date are pro-rata. If you have any questions on this please contact the school.
Course description
Painting Year 1 course (PY1)is on Materials, Methods and Ideas is a practical course which aims to fill in all the gaps you never knew you had in your understanding and practice of painting. The course is suitable for beginners level (with some experience) to intermediate level in painting and as the course has proved time and again also suitable for Fine Art graduates looking to learn about and develop their painting skills and knowledge. If you have any questions or in doubt whether this is the right course for you please the form at the bottom of this post to contact us.
Amongst other things the course covers materials of painting beginning with surfaces, from traditional canvas and wood panels to newer materials such as aluminium, moving through a range of types of paint including oil, acrylic, watercolour and the mediums and additives available for each. Please note as you are joining the course in April you will be briefed on what has been covered in the previous two terms.
About the artist-tutors
JOHANNA MELVIN
Johanna (Jo) 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, printmakers and curators to pioneer a programme of limited edition prints and objet d’art as fund-raisers for the Gallery. Throughout this time Jo continued to make her own work, exhibiting five times at The Royal Academy of Art and Flowers Gallery respectively, as well as The Contemporary Art Society among others.
GUY ALLOTT
London based Artist Guy Allott, a graduate of Central Saint Martins (1999) and the Royal College of Art (2002), 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.
JOANA GALEGO
Joana, born in 1994 in Cascais, a picturesque town nestled between the Sintra mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, in Lisbon district of Portugal, located along the Portuguese Riviera. Joana pursued her academic journey by focusing on Painting at the University of Lisbon. However, her artistic path took an intriguing turn when she relocated to London for the Drawing Year, driven by her desire to shift away from the use of childhood photographs as her primary artistic references.
Course timetable dates
| TERM | DATES |
| April Term | 15 April to 1 July 2024 – Note 12 week term due to May Bank holiday on 6 May & Half Term 27 May |
| End of Year Exhibition | Date TBA |
