APPLICATIONS OPEN for The ESOP Advanced Painting Course 2024-26 with full time studio & Mon – Wed Tutor time

This 2 year course starts on 23rd September 2024 to 27th June 2026. The course comes with a studio that is accessible throughout the two year including the summer of 2025. Continue Reading →

Studio course: The Bigger Picture: 21 Apr to 30 June 2023

The Bigger Picture is a postgraduate fine art course based at the ESOP Studios in north London. Interdisciplinary and challenging in approach, thinking and creative realisation. The focus will be on the artistic development of each student and the dynamics of the group as a whole. Critical discussion and supportive dialogues will be at the heart of this process. Therefore, actively encouraging innovative and meaningful ways of personally integrating practise and theory. Continue Reading →

Studio course: The Painting Year I: Materials, Methods and Ideas – Mondays 17 Apr to 3 Jul 2023

1 PLACE REMAINING: The Painting Year I is a practical course which aims to fill in all the gaps you never knew you had in your understanding and practice of painting. Continue Reading →

Painting People: The Figure and Portrait: 12 January 2022 to 29 Jun 2023

This course aims to explore the elements of portraiture and figure painting and drawing in both systematic and creative ways. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: The Bigger Picture Post-grad course – Fridays 12 Nov 2021 – 08 July 2022

Join us and have this incredible opportunity to work within a close-knit group of artists for one year; explore individually and as a group and expand your art practice. Continue Reading →

The Painting Year II Wednesdays: 06 Oct 2021 to 29 Jun 2022

The Painting Year II is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters. Continue Reading →

The Painting Year II Tuesdays: 5 Oct 2021 to 28 Jun 2022

The Painting Year II is a practical course for those looking to advance their practice, develop their skills and content whilst being guided by experienced and celebrated painters. Continue Reading →

ONLINE: The Super-power of a sketch book with Guy Allott: 20 May to 8 July 2021

£220 8 Week online Course – 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… Continue Reading →

ONLINE: Contemporary Fine Art Practice: 01 Oct 2021 to 01 July 2022

The Contemporary Fine Art course is aimed at a broad range of artists and levels of experience and seeks to develop a community where practical and theoretical skills can be explored and established with emphases on making, presenting, talking and thinking about art. Continue Reading →

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 →