Ref: S3D35834
On this studio-based landscape painting course, learn how to use your materials and equipment to evoke the qualities of space, light, structure, mass, movement and direction, qualities shared by both landscape and painting. Make works that are evocative, pictorial equivalents for the subject, rather than just a depiction of it, and where the content is found in the act of painting.
Working from your own photographic sources, you will use drawing to find simple fundamental visual qualities and dramatic compositional structures. Then, working with acrylic paint and utilising a broad range of painting processes, derived from both the history of landscape painting as well as from abstraction, you will produce a minimum of twenty experimental paintings on paper and prepared board.
The course will include daily slide lectures on historical and contemporary approaches to landscape. There will be technical demonstrations and lots of one-to-one and group tuition. As the course progresses, your personal choices and direction will increasingly become the focus.
By the end of the course, you will have produced a substantial body of atmospheric and expressive landscape paintings. You will have gained confidence in exploring the notion of equivalence between painting and subject, and the role of process as a powerful pictorial element. You will also have become increasingly comfortable in making personal critical judgements and taking control of the direction of your painting.
As well as the photographs you have brought along, you will be encouraged to explore and make use of the grounds and surrounding landscape at the college.
On this course, the College will supply each student with eight 28cm x 36cm MDF boards for painting, plus some acrylic primer.
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Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear i.e. no open-toed shoes or sandals.
Arrival day
Residential students can arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm for registration
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included)
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential
Daily timetable
Course teaching 9.15am - 5pm (lunch included)
Dinner: from 6.30pm (included for residential students)
Evening working: students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with permission from the tutor and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed
Departure day
Course teaching: 9.15am - 3pm (lunch included)
Residential students will need to check out of rooms by 10am
Please note, the tutor may make slight variations to the daily timetable as required
Nick trained at Worthing and Wolverhampton art colleges, has taught at many UK schools, colleges and universties at all levels up to MA. He exhibits with St Annes Galleries, Lewes. Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel and the Porthminster Gallery, St Ives. Nick's work is held in many public and private collections including, The Contemporary Art Society, The Landmark Trust and the Government Art Collection. He is a Trustee of Fabrica, Brighton's leading Contemporary Art Gallery.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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