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Alison Harper: Art Consultant for the BBC's primetime art show The Big Painting Challenge and The Founder and Artistic Director of The Essential School of Painting

Alison Harper: Art Consultant for the BBC’s primetime art show The Big Painting Challenge and The Founder and Artistic Director of The Essential School of Painting

Alison Harper is a multi-talented artist who has had numerous shows and exhibitions both in Britain and internationally. This dynamism has expanded into founding and establishing a top independent art school in London, The Essential School of Painting, which is reputed to have one of the best Painting Faculties of tutors in the United Kingdom.¹

As an Art Consultant, Alison Harper has helped to develop, establish and expand an understanding of art across various mediums, from contributions to major books to prime-time television; her recent projects include being the Art consultant for the BBC’s Primetime Art Show The Big Painting Challenge (airing on BBC One February 2015) and being a contributing author to the globally published book The Drawing and Painting Book- UK Edition ( or The Artist Everything Book- US Edition) by Kate Wilson and published by Thames and Hudson and HarperCollins (February 2015).Drawing-and-Painting-by-Kate-Wilson-Publisher-Thames-and-Hudson-(web)

Below is a list of some projects Alison has been involved in.

  1. The Big Painting Challenge BBC One
  2. BBC Online ‘I wonder’ series- How to make it as an amateur artist; 2015
  3. The Big Painting Challenge Book. Publishers BBC Books 2015
  4. The Drawing and Painting Book; Publishers Thames and  Hudson & Harper Collins 2015 (Chapter: The Human Body)
  5. Reuters Geneva ” Reuters and Creativity”
  6. NHS Trust: Creative thinking for managers.
  7. British Council Nairobi; Development of Art UK Kenya
  8. The Drawing and Painting Book; Publishers Thames and Hudson & Harper Collins 2015 (Chapter 14: The Human Body by Alison Harper, Art Consultant, Founder and Artist Director, The Essential School of Painting)

    The Drawing and Painting Book; Publishers Thames and Hudson & Harper Collins 2015 (Chapter 14: The Human Body by Alison Harper, Art Consultant, Founder and Artist Director, The Essential School of Painting)

    Kuona Trust Nairobi: Art Projects for Orphanages.

  9. Fettes College Edinburgh: Ways into Creativity
  10.  Kamla Raheja Institute for Architecture Mumbai, India: An Audience with Alison Harper
  11.  Drawing and Creativity: MS University of Baroda, India

To contact Alison Harper please email admin@theesop.com or telephone +44 20 8521 6058 

¹"The Essential School has one of the best painting faculties in Britain today..." Royal Scottish Academician Sandy Moffat OBE and former Head of Painting, Glasgow School of Art, September 2014.