Artist-Tutors: Adrian Wiszniewski RSA and Rosanna Dean
Format: Online — 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fee: £775 per term | Annual fee £2,175
Transcendental Roof Party (Detail) Oil on canvas © Adrian Wiszniewski RSA
About This Course
Advanced Painting Personal Projects is a yearlong online studio programme for painters who are serious about the development of their work. Led by two painters of exceptional standing, Adrian Wiszniewski RSA and Rosanna Dean, it carries the rigour, critical depth and structured mentorship of an advanced painting course, and brings all of it to wherever you paint. It is especially suited to artists who live outside London or beyond the UK, and to those whose working lives make regular travel to a studio unrealistic. What you join is a creative community: a group of committed painters working alongside one another, and alongside their tutors, across the full academic year.
Each Monday is a full working day, 10am to 5pm, spent in genuine, live dialogue with your tutor and your fellow painters. Adrian and Rosanna teach on alternate weeks, one and then the other, week after week across the year. This is deliberate. Two painters of real distinction, with distinct practices and distinct ways of looking, return to your work in turn, so that what one tutor sets in motion the other meets afresh a week later. You are never settling into a single way of seeing. The reading stays live, the questions keep changing, and the work is kept moving.
Who This Course Is For
Advanced Painting Personal Projects is designed for painters who:
- Have prior experience and a developing practice they are ready to push further
- Want the sustained mentorship of two significant professional painters across a full year
- Value a flexible online format that removes geographic barriers without compromising on depth or contact time
- Are working on personal projects and want a rigorous structure of critique and support around that work
- Are ready to commit to full studio days each week and to work independently between sessions
If you are unsure whether this course is right for you, please use the contact form at the bottom of this page.
What the Year Involves
- Three terms of ten weeks — full live online studio days, 10am to 5pm, every Monday
- Individual one-to-one tutor time and group critique woven into every session
- Presentations, discussions and demonstrations led by Adrian Wiszniewski RSA and Rosanna Dean
- Peer-to-peer exchange within a small, committed community of advanced painters
- Structured development of a personal project across the year, culminating in an end-of-year group exhibition
| Art Materials As an online course, students are responsible for providing their own art materials. A recommended materials list will be provided at enrolment.Over the course of the year, we encourage students to build their own studio palette. The recommended list is a practical guide to assembling and sourcing materials that serve your practice well beyond the course itself. |
Academic Year Dates at a Glance
| Term | Start Date | Half Term | End Date | Wks |
| Autumn Term 2026 | Mon 5 October 2026 | 26 October | Mon 14 December | 10 |
| Spring Term 2027 | Mon 11 January 2027 | 15 February | Mon 22 March | 10 |
| Summer Term 2027 | Mon 19 April 2027 | 31 May (also bank holiday) | Mon 28 June | 10 |
Total teaching Mondays: 30. 3 May 2027 (Early May Bank Holiday) is a scheduled teaching day on this course.
About the Artist-Tutors
Adrian Wiszniewski RSA
Adrian is a Royal Scottish Academician and one of the most significant painters of the ‘Glasgow Boys’ generation, a group of artists who reshaped the direction of contemporary painting in Scotland and in the UK and further afield in the ’80s and ’90s. His work is held in major public and private collections across the world. Wiszniewski is a painter par excellence, of substantial ambition and rigorous practice, he brings to his teaching the full weight of a career spanning 5 decades spent at the forefront of contemporary painting.
Rosanna Dean
Rosanna holds an RCA MA in Painting (2019) and studied Old Master painting at the Angel Academy, Florence. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice addresses representations of the divine across cultures and traditions, combining Eastern and Western approaches to create work of contemporary spiritual depth.
The ESOP Pathway
Advanced Painting Personal Projects is designed for painters who have moved beyond the foundational stage and are ready to commit to the sustained development of a serious practice. Students who complete this course and want to deepen their engagement with in-studio work may wish to consider The Painting Year II. Those ready for the most intensive commitment to their painting should look at the ESOP Advanced Painting Course.
