One Week Holiday Course // Painting the Figure

Fascinatingly, our contemporary online devices, screens and cameras, echo a way of working that can lead back to renaissance times and artists inventions that required single-eyed vision of the spatial three-dimensional world, observed and viewed through flat glass planes and perspective frames. These devices can create extreme and exaggerated foreshortening when wished for, unrivalled in any studio. Morning slide presentations and talks will be given to start each day exploring images and concepts from paintings, drawings and sculpture of the human form; from the very earliest known to us, to the global contemporary, in order to help engage and inform our study of the formal aspects of painting the figure.

Students will have the experience of painting the figure from a variety of models and poses throughout the week, creating daily painting studies which explore pictorial and conceptual concerns such as proportion, tone & form, temperature, colour, composition & space. One-to-one tuition will be given throughout the day whilst a combination of seminars and critiques will bring them to a close. All levels welcome including beginners.