Bristol Drawing School @ Bristol Festival 2009

Come and see us at the Bristol Festival this weekend, we'll be in the workshops tent life drawing with Valerie Bowes, full workshops event list is:

Saturday
All Day - Deamon and Doppleganger
11:00 Drumming Workshop
12:30 Rag Dolly Anne, felt making
14:00 Bristol Drawing school
15:30 Yoga Workshop
17:00 Ugly Sisters Theatre Workshop

Sunday
All day - Hula Hoop workshop (Thirzie)
11:00 Tai Chi
12:00 Bristol Capoeira
14:00 Jewellery Making Workshop
15:30 Bristol Drawing School
17:00 East Side Roots- Permeculture talk

If you've always wanted to try life drawing - now's your chance!

Full details of Bristol's community festival here:

http://www.thebristolfestival.org/

Big Draw Bristol 2009

We've created a website to list all the Big Draw events in the Bristol area this coming October.


It’s just gone live and we are encouraging people to register and post their own events, we will be expanding it soon with a forum, more info and maps.

We enjoy putting on events for the Big Draw here at the Bristol Drawing School, and we thought that last year there was a number of good events in the Bristol area but no real co-ordination between them, so we thought it would be good to have a local resource for people to get know what each other and doing and perhaps swap ideas and experience.

Having this resource should also help with local publicity as we can present all the events more as part of a wider festival, city wide as well as national, and hopefully get more people involved and drawing!

Hope you like it, any feedback or comments welcomed

Giles Penny - Comments

Some comments from the show

‘I like the young king’ SG

‘I like this artist’ LM

‘Fantastic work. So simple yet so moving and memorable. Thank you’ S and P V

‘Very thought provoking. If we had some spare £ we’d go for ‘What’s for Pudding’. Thank you for the memory.’ K and A

‘Love the style’ L and E

‘Totally delightful’ A E

‘’Joyful, wonderful, thought provoking.’ A W

‘Funny, yet quite profound – a touch of Henry Moore in some of the figures’ J G

‘Really like the negative shapes in the sculptures – making sculpture what it should be – a relationship between the positive and the negative’ J H

‘Fantastic – great sense of humour!’ A C

‘All of the above! Simple, moving, wonderfully laid out. Enjoyed the experience of seeing it all here. Loved the interplay of the sculptures and shapes in the paintings’ G C

Giles Penny - Private View

Thursday 16th July 2009, 6 to 9pm
We are having the private view for our Giles Penny exhibition next Thursday night.

All students, tutors and artists are invited to make this an end of term party as well and a thank you for everyone's hard work this year.

Drink wine, eat nibbles, meet other students and tutors, and see some fantastic sculpture, painting and drawings – a perfect summer’s evening!

Autumn Term 2009

Photograph by Terence Smith, model Michaela

Our autumn term programme has been confirmed and is now ready for booking!

Next term sees the return of Sara Easby's course, Life Drawing with Movement, more experimental drawing with Esmé Clutterbuck, and Ruth Wallace continues her exploration of drawing materials and techniques.

All of the above courses can now be booked for the whole year for a discount price, full details of how the courses progress are on our website.

In addition Valerie Bowes invites us to enjoy discovering your own unique sense of colour and play with a new set of possibilities with her oil pastel course, and we continue to offer our evening beginner and drop in courses.

Our workshop programme for the term has been expanded to now include something for every weekend, with a wide range of subjects from bronze casting, anatomy, life drawing and bookbinding. Full details on our website.

Anatomy Drawing Workshop

This April saw the first of our Anatomy workshops by Alan McGowan. Drawing from a life model, this 3 day event enabled students to get to grips with this tough and challenging subject.

Using drawings, a skeleton and a life model Alan generously gave us the benefit of his expert knowledge and years of experience in this field.

This is a workshop not to be missed, a must for anyone who wants to draw from life. The next one will be in November, go to our website for more details.

Kate Raggett - Artist Talk

We are keen to invite artists to come and talk about their work, and with Kate Raggett we felt it was especially important as her recent work has been landscape based and largely ephemeral.

Kate gave us a fascinating and personal insight into her work and there was also on a display a collection of photographs documenting the installations she has done.



Many thanks to Kate for all her hard work and effort.