Painting The Contemporary Figure (online) 15 Jan to 2 Jul 2026

Tutor: Tim Patrick

Online on Thursday 10-5pm

This online course designed to help develop your practice within a supportive community. Open to all this class takes a practical approach to enhancing your skills in portraiture and figurative painting.

Under Tim’s expert guidance, you’ll study both systematic and creative techniques for working with the figure and face. Through a variety of drawing and painting methods, you will learn how to capture expressive subjects on your canvas with clarity and confidence. Tim’s mastery of colour mixing will help you refine your oil palette, allowing you to create captivating ambient light effects and fully explore the potential of oil mediums. Benefit from personalised one-on-one sessions as well as dynamic group tutelage, all designed to support you in building a body of work among fellow artists.

Tim Patrick

Tim initially studied portraiture at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy (2008-10) prior to that he studied in Kingston University (2006-07). Following his studies in Florence Tim joined the University of Brighton (2010-13) and thereafter the Royal Drawing School (2014-15) In 2019 Tim was award with the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant of emerging Figurative artists and from August 2020 to January 2021 the Artist in Residence, Trinity Buoy Wharf. His work can be found in both private and public collections and has been shown in several London and national exhibitions including the 2018 Threadneedle Prize and the Priseman-Seabrook Collection of 21st Century Figurative Painting.>> read more

Tim Patrick
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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.