Thursdays 10 – 5pm
(Previously named Painting People – The Figure & Portrait : Thursdays 03 Oct 2024 to 3 July 2025)
Artist-tutors: Melissa Kime and Archie Franks
Annual Fee: £2125, Term Fee: £775 X 3 terms
Note: this is a yearlong course done over 3 terms
All art materials are included on the course with exception of canvas that can be purchased from the school.
This course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways. During the course we will work from the live model and sources other than life including photographs, film stills, drawings, memory and imagination, aiming to explore experimental approaches to making images and being open to unexpected and expressive results building up to completing a body of work.
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
|---|---|
| Oct Term | 3 Oct to 12 Dec 2024 – Half term 31 October |
| January Term | 16 Jan to 27 Mar 2025 – Half Term 20 February |
| April Term | 24 April to 3 July 2025 – Half Term 29 May |
| Exhibition Dates | TBC |
Artist-tutors
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 >>>
Archie Franks
Archie Franks holds a post graduate diploma from The Royal Academy Schools, 2012, and a First-Class BA, Honours degree from City & Guilds London Art School, 2009. He is the recipient of various awards and honours including the Jerwood Painting Fellowship, 2016, the Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting, The British School at Rome 2013; Tooth Award 2012; Gordon Luton Award 2012; Richard Ford Award, 2011; and the Philip T Ribbon Award, 2011 >>> read more >>>
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