Painting Personal Projects: Saturdays 02 Oct 2021 to 02 July 2022

Painting Personal Projects is a programme that aims is to give you an opportunity to develop your own work whilst receiving guidance and mentoring in a supportive community of artists. It is intended to increase confidence, creativity and a sense of direction; helping to provide strategies for establishing and growing a body of work. 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 →

ONLINE: Painting from the Imagination with Dan Coombs – July 19th to Sept 20th, 2021

Messenger by Dan Coombs

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: Ordinarily odd; the everyday with Archie Franks – 19 May to 7 July 2021

£220 – 8 week course Online Course on Wednesday Evenings.
In this course we will look at artists who examine the everyday. We will look at our own everyday, our immediate surroundings and situations… Continue Reading →

Painting People: The Figure and Portrait – Thursdays 7 Oct 2021 to 30 June 2022

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

ONLINE: Weaving the Thread: Painting and the Imagination with Adrian Wiszniewski RSA – 11 Jan to 22 Mar 2021

First anachronism of the day by Adrian Wiszniewski RSA 2011

On this 10 week course, through guided exercises, Adrian shows us how we can access the resources of our imagination; 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 →

ESOP Online Open Day Dec 30th 2020 – 9am to 9pm

Book yourself an appointment to speak to one of our tutors about the courses, workshops and mentorship at the Essential School of Painting… courses are available from January for Continue Reading →