Painting Personal Projects With Guy Allott: 23 Aug – 13 Sept 2025

4 Saturdays 10:30am – 4:30pm

Location: ESOP Main Studio, Wood Green

Course Fee: £280

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

This four-weekend course is designed to support you in developing your own ideas or shaping new ones through guided, practical engagement. Working in our spacious main studio in Wood Green, you’ll have the time, space, and mentorship to build momentum and push your work forward across four Saturdays.

Whether you’re just starting out, returning to painting, or looking to refine a current project, this course offers a supportive, focused environment to help you deepen your practice and clarify your direction. The emphasis is on building confidence, developing a personal language, and beginning or advancing a sustained body of work.

Each session includes one-to-one tutorials and group critiques, allowing you to receive both personalised feedback from tutor Guy Allott and constructive input from fellow artists. You’ll also explore strategies for how to develop your work beyond the course — creatively, conceptually, and practically.

Please note: places are limited — early booking is recommended.

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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.