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Spring Term 2020 sees the return of one of our newest courses, Mindfulness and Drawing. This 5-week course aims to slow things down and focus attention inward.

Sara Anstis, Somaya Critchlow and Ella Walker were selected for The Great Women Artists x Palazzo Monti Residency 2019 in Brescia, Italy.

Royal Drawing School alumni Rachel Mercer and Qiong Wu spent 7 weeks in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China. This funded residency (which included a stipend for an ...

What do our Foundation Year students go on to do? Here recent alumni who have gone on to university tell us about their experience of the course and how it ...

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield is currently studying at the Pratt Institute in New York. Here she gives us a round up of the exhibitions that she has visited, the ...

Sara Anstis graduated from The Drawing Year in November 2018 and was awarded the Royal Drawing School residency in ESMoA, Los Angeles. Here she describes how she spent her time ...

Ways of Drawing (Thames and Hudson) is the first book from the Royal Drawing School. A lavishly illustrated collection of reflections and in-practice sessions on drawing by contemporary artists and ...

We are pleased to announce a new Young Artists Drawing Club in New Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Free to attend for all students, bookings are now open.

As our Summer School course Van Gogh: Drawing and the Everyday approaches, we take a look at five drawings which either feature, or are related to artwork on display in ...

Drawing Year alumni are well represented in the 251st Royal Academy Summer Exhibition...

Emilie Gossiaux, a deaf and blind artist from the Yale School of Fine Art, was awarded a month-long residency at Dumfries House as part of the School's International Residencies Programme.

Drawing Year alumnus Tim Patrick was Artist in Residence for this year's In:Visible Gardens event in Venice; an annual initiative that aims to build and develop relationships between the relatively ...