Prasad Beavan

Prasad Beaven is an artist tutor who did a BA in illustration and an MA in Traditional Arts. He studied under renowned watercolourist Konstantin Sterkhov and has 6 years of teaching experience.

Prasad created 5 online courses through Artefacto School, alongside regular Zoom teaching. He teaches short in-person workshops at the Kings Foundation, specialising in the Golden Age of Watercolour and small groups in local parks around London.

His work has been displayed internationally, including Watercolour festivals in Turkey, Italy, Russia and China, in Art Fairs (The Affordable, Manchester and StArt) and at Group exhibitions around the UK. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.

Describe your approach to teaching
My approach to teaching is very open. I try to give students principles which they can take away and use to explore their own creative subjects. I like to understand students’ strengths and weaknesses and offer balance by encouraging a more loose or refined approach depending on what they need. Most importantly, I try to inspire students to not get bogged down in detail or enslaved by the subject, but instead to focus on the inspiration, what inspired them to paint the subject and how best to do it.

What inspires your own work?
I’m inspired by Nature, the play of light and the atmosphere created at certain times of the day. Nature is endlessly inspiring and has opened an imaginative response within me, which I like to explore through patterns of light and dark or the organic shapes of ink marbling.