ONLINE: Advanced Painting Personal Projects with Adrian Wiszniewski RSA and Rosanna Dean – Mondays 30 Sept 2024 to 7 July 2025

Mondays 10am to 5pm

Annual Fee £1975 Term fee £710

This online course is designed to foster your creative growth within a supportive community. Led by Adrian and Rosanna, both accomplished artists, the course offers a practical approach, allowing you to develop your work while receiving guidance and mentoring in a collaborative environment.

The Changling by Adrian Wiszniewski

Omega Man by Adrian Wiszniewski Oil on canvas 2011

Through structured mentorship, you will explore various techniques for generating and refining ideas for your artwork. Engage in group discussions to spark inspiration and share insights. Whether you aim to boost your confidence, ignite your creativity, or find a clearer direction in your art, this course is tailored to support your development.

Expect a dynamic learning environment where you will receive individual attention and constructive feedback from both tutors and fellow participants. Each session, held on Mondays, includes presentations, group discussions, and dedicated time for independent project work. With a focus on idea development and expression through paint and mixed media, you will refine your unique voice and tackle challenges directly.

Birthed by Rosanna Dean 2016

Course timetable dates
TERMDATES
September Term30 Sept to 9 Dec 2024
Half term 28 October
January Term13 Jan to 24 Mar 2025
Half term 17 February
April Term28 Apr to 7 July 2025 – 
Please note: No bank holiday on 5 May
Bank holiday and Half Term on 26 May 
About the artist tutors
Adrian Wiszniewski RSA

Glasgow born Adrian Wiszniewski is one of those multi-faceted artists who has worked in many different fields from painting to music. Adrian has his work in major public and international collections such as the Tate Britain Gallery,  the Victoria and Albert Museum London The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Setagaya Museum Tokyo, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, London and multitude of awards include the Haldane Trust Award in 1982,

the David Cargill Scholarship in 1983, the Mark Rothko Memorial Award in 1984, the I.C.C.F. Best Design Award New York in 1993 and the Lord Provost Gold Medal from City of Glasgow in 1999. As a global artist Wiszniewski has had solo exhibitions in London, Sydney, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ghent and Tokyo. A Glasgow School of Art graduate Adrian is one of the leading members of the New Glasgow Boys part of the revival and resurgence of figurative painting in the late eighties and nineties >>> 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. 

Dean is fascinated with the grotesque, and beauty and repulsion intermingle in her canvases. The figures become decontextualized, ambiguous, anonymous forms that hover in space. The body stripped of its individual identity becomes a vehicle for exploring shared fears and experiences. The common site where different perspectives, viewpoints and histories collide. Dean creates an open discourse in deciphering the objects on her canvas and installations, to probe our contemporary beliefs, and question what the body means to her viewer >>> read more >>>

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About The Essential School Of Painting

The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) is an alternative art school based in Wood Green, London, specialising in painting and drawing classes taught by leading contemporary artists. The ESOP offers exciting, intellectually rigorous courses with the intention of advancing painting. Classes are available for all levels of experience.