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For students living outside of London or abroad, those who have specific access needs or have found it difficult to fit a course into a working week, our online …

“Hibernating artists - having honed their abilities in forced isolation - burst forth with brushes in hands, to dismantle the spectres illusion and paint a future of their own …

This September alumnus of the Drawing Year, Nahem Shoa, opens his most recent curatorial project at Southampton City Art Gallery. Face of Britain asks the question: What does it …

Drawing Year alumni Claire Price and James Harrison recount their experiences of working in Mexico and the US

Here, two alumni living in the US and Israel share their experience of being a practising artist during an international pandemic, and how these countries have influenced their work.

Our alumni community in Scotland is thriving and here they reveal how the Scottish identity, landscape and culture influences their work and the impact that lockdown has had on …

Drawing: Immersive Narratives tutors, Rebecca Harper and Melissa Kime consider the role an archive of source material can have in the creative process. They give students an idea of …

Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor Sophie Charalambous sets some exercises that explore the use of light and dark in creating dramatic portraits.

Painting: Portraits and Self-Portraits tutor, Ian Rowlands discusses why you might want to use a subjective palette when painting a portrait and how to choose it.

Here Painting a Head tutor, Robert Dukes discusses the challenges of relating the model to their surroundings and suggests an exercise to help students consider how to place figures …

Tutor Rossen Daskalov takes you through the different processes you can use to build up a multi-layered print with press-free techniques. Rossen will be teaching on The Drawing Marathon …

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield has just finished her last term at the Pratt Institute in New York where she experienced both online learning and teaching. Nell talks about …