The Imaginative Landscape with Guy Allott – (Mon- Wed) 8 to 10 Sept 2025

£240

This three-day course invites you to explore

Landscape

not just as a subject, but as a metaphor, something shaped as much by memory and emotion as by observation. Whether your inspiration comes from deserts, forests, mountains, or cityscapes, the aim is to create work that bridges what we see with what we imagine and feel.

Detail of The Space Race (2) by Guy Allot

Working through a series of playful and exploratory exercises, you’ll be encouraged to develop imagery that is personal, symbolic, and often surprising.

The focus will be on imagination as a primary source, using landscape as a framework through which to express ideas, moods, and atmosphere.

his course is designed to be fun, enlightening, and accessible to artists of all levels. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to re-energise your practice, you’ll find a supportive environment that encourages risk-taking and visual experimentation.

All materials for the course are provided, with the exception of canvas, which can be purchased in the studio if needed.

The Space Race (1) by Guy Allot

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About The Essential School Of Painting

The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) is an independent art school in London, built on our belief that painting is a living discipline, progressed through sustained practice. We are a place where painters teach painters, carrying a painter from first steps, through year-long courses, to our postgraduate two-year Advanced Painting Course. For over twenty years, painters of the first rank, Academicians and artists of international standing, have taught, exhibited and spoken in our studios. We openly welcome all to join our community. That welcome is encapsulated in our motto, Animus ad Creandum, the courage to create.