Artists

View the profiles and artwork of our alumni and tutors

- Drawing Year Alumni
Aaron Matheson

Drawing Year Alumnus, 2007

Aaron Matheson paints with a sense of limitless potential, creating fresh, unseen forms. Living with MS, his awareness of physical limits fuels his drive to free each painting from constraints.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Adam Watt

Drawing Year Alumnus, 2010

Adam Watt earned a first-class Chemistry degree from Southampton before pivoting to art, completing a foundation year at Bournemouth and The Drawing Year, where he developed an interest in graphic novels.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Adebola Bolarinwa

Drawing Year alumnus, 2025

Adebola Bolarinwa is a Nigerian-American visual artist and designer working across painting, drawing, and mixed media.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Adrian Dutton

Drawing Year Alumnus,

Adrian Dutton graduated from the Royal Drawing School and teaches figurative painting within the British tradition, emphasizing place and poetry.
- Drawing Year Alumni
- Tutor
Agnes Treherne

Young Artists tutor, Drawing Year Alumna, 2020

Agnes Treherne, based in Sussex, combines her Fine Art and History of Art backgrounds to create paintings and prints rooted in drawing from life.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Aisha Farr

Drawing Year Alumna, 2016

Aisha Farr studied Ancient Greek and English Literature before the Royal Drawing School. Drawn to fragmentariness and quiet, unthought-knowns, her drawings try to communicate what it is to be a person.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Akilah Chambers

Drawing Year Alumna, 2024

Akilah Chambers graduated from Arts University Bournemouth in 2023 with a degree in Illustration. Her drawing practice blends augmented observation with imaginative narratives.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Al Page

Drawing Year Alumni, 2022

Al Page, a Brighton and Slade graduate, explores political power, protest, and masculinity. Former Studio Assistant to Anselm Kiefer, they now lecture at UAL and UCA.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Alastair Farley

Drawing Year Alumnus, 2020

Alastair Farley graduated in Fine Art Painting from Brighton. Raised in Northumberland, his work draws on the region's saints, kings, and Border Reivers through ruined castles and church towers.
- Drawing Year Alumni
Alessia Avellino

Drawing Year Alumna, 2007

Alessia Avellino studied at Chelsea and Camberwell College of Arts. She has exhibited internationally, and shared the Royal Academy's Hugh Casson Drawing Prize with renowned artists.

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