Artist-tutors: Melissa Kime and Dan Coombs
Annual Fee: £2125, Term Fee: £775 (per term for 3 terms)
This class is now full.
(If you would like to be included in the waiting list or considered for the next academic year please contact the school)
The Painting Year II on Wednesdays is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters. The intention of the course is to inject your practice with inspiration, enable you to try new approaches and materials. As part of an artist’s community, participate in a discourse about contemporary painting, that’s enhanced by talks by visiting artists, while you ground and embed methods and ideas in your own practice and experience. Every two weeks during term time we have visiting artists giving talks on their work and studio practice.
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This course is designed for those with prior experience of painting. Whether you are self-taught or you have been to art school with painting these distinctions no longer hold. From our experience many artists who have been to art school in recent years would like have liked to paint but were not given the technical and/or intellectual support to do so and therefore turn to other mediums, however once taken by the desire to paint it is hard to shake off. If you are in this category this course will provide you with what you need to learn about, advance, practice and develop your painting. You will be given stimulating looking, watching and reading lists. Should you have any questions or like to speak to one of our team, please fill in the form at the bottom of the page.
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
|---|---|
| Oct Term | 2 Oct to 11 Dec 2024 – Half term 30 October |
| January Term | 15 Jan to 26 Mar 2025 – Half Term 19 February |
| April Term | 23 April to 2 July 2025 – Half Term 28 May |
About the artist-tutors
Melissa Kime
Dan Coombs
Melissa Kime
Melissa was born in Wiltshire UK in 1989 and currently lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA Fine Art in 2011 from Falmouth University, with a postgraduate diploma in drawing from the Royal Drawing School in 2013 and with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2015. She exhibited in Bloomberg New contemporaries, 2014 at the ICA London which was selected by Enrico David, Goshka Macuga and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and won the Arts Club award at The Royal Academy Summer Show, 2019. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad in both solo and group shows, she has won numerous prizes for both drawing and painting and her work is in many private collections. Read more >>>
Dan Coombs
Dan Coombs is ESOP’s Head of Painting Year programme and lead tutor on the ESOP Advanced Painting Course. A London based painter, Dan is a graduate of The Ruskin School, Oxford (1989-92) and the Royal College of Art (1992-94). He was Rome Scholar in painting British school in Rome (1994-5). He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Dan creates his compositions from studies in collage and paint, which unite his figures with entirely invented surroundings, landscape dream worlds and interior spaces. These are human encounters charged with a mysterious, symbolic power. They are explorations of guilt, beauty and fear of isolation; that draw on myth, religion and psychoanalysis in order to grasp the real within the imaginary. Read more >>>
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