Dazzle – Hide and Seek painting with Vicky Wright: Tuesdays 9 – 30 Mar 2021 6-9pm

Vorticism was an art movement that broke with the past and expressed the dynamism of the machine age, exploring pattern and geometry as a means to make paintings. Continue Reading →

Online Course: Ordinarily odd; the everyday with Archie Franks – 13th Jan to 24th Mar: 6-9pm

In this course we will look at artists who examine the everyday such as Wayne Theibaud, Alex Katz and Eduard Manet. We will look at our own everyday, our immediate surroundings and situations. Continue Reading →

LANDSCAPE: A DOMAIN FOR PAINTING with Peter Ashton Jones – Sat 23 Jan 2021

This intensive one-day online practical course will explore ways of making landscape painting. It will also involve looking at the way landscape which is probably the oldest genre in painting, has been used from cave painting right through to abstract painting. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 11 Jan to 22 Mar 2021

On this 10 week online course Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination. Often it is quite difficult to find a way in to working from the imagination. Continue Reading →

(COMPLETED) Online Summer School: Painting from the mind’s eye with Dan Coombs 8-11 Sept 2020 : Tues – Fri 10.30am to 4.30pm

This is an intensive five day course that will be utilising ideas about painting from the imagination , and will be important to artists who have always wanted to explore the imaginary in painting but have felt unsure how to enter this difficult terrain. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 3rd Aug to 5 Oct 2020 Monday Evenings 6-9pm

On this 10 week online course Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 18th May to 20th Jul 2020 Monday Evenings 6-9pm

Through the Looking Glass: Painting from the imagination with Dan Coombs – 27th April to 6th June 2020. On this weekly online course, Dan Coombs will demonstrate some of the techniques and devices required to paint from the imagination. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: 7th May to 16th Jul 2020 – Thursday Evenings 6-9pm

The aim of this course is to develop the skills required to produce sketchbooks which are an inspiration, and which contain all the nuts and bolts of experimentation. A sketchbook – like life – should reflect the life and times of the artist, including the mishaps and the triumphs. They should be both revealing and indecipherable, ultimately assisting the artist in mastering their creativity. Continue Reading →