Artist tutors: Guy Allott and Rosanna Dean
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Two-term Fee: £1475, Term Fee: £775
(Fees paid after start of term will be paid pro-rata and the difference refund to the student. Contact the school of more details.)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Painting Year 2 art class offers a practical course tailored for individuals aiming to enhance their skills and content under the guidance of experienced painters. The primary goal of the course is to give your practice fresh inspiration, encourage experimentation with new techniques and materials, and foster participation in contemporary painting discourse within a supportive art community.
Throughout emphasis is placed on grounding methods and ideas in personal experience.
All necessary art materials are provided during the course, except for canvases which can be purchased separately from the school.
Whether you are self-taught or have attended art school, and have you a desire to paint but lack the technical and/or intellectual support to do so. This course aims to address these needs by equipping you with the knowledge, practice, and guidance necessary to further develop your painting skills.
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
|---|---|
| January Term | 14th Jan – 25th March 2025 Half term 18th February |
| April Term | 22nd Apr – 1 July 2025 Half term 27 May |
| Exhibition Dates | TBC |
About the artist-tutors
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. Read more >>>
Rosanna Dean
Rosanna Dean b.1988 is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (2019), BA (Hons) Painting Camberwell College of Art (2013) and studied Old Master painting at the Angel Academy Florence.
She recently returned from Kerala, researching Theyyam ritual and Indian temples. Her practice addresses conflicting ideologies surrounding representations of the divine. Seeking to establish connections between the ways in which societies have depicted religious belief over time, she combines the features of divergent practices from East to West to create work with a contemporary spiritualism >>>read more >>>
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