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.

Experimental Drawing - Esmé Clutterbuck

Some images from our wednesday morning classs with Esmé Clutterbuck:

This is a structured course is for anyone who is interested in drawing and its relationship to other areas of creativity. The course presents drawing as an activity which is both challenging and fun and suits people with widely varying ability and experience.

Drawing Room II with the RWA - Comments

Comments from the show:

"An excellent exhibition, full of light and variety"

"This is one of the most exciting exhibitions I have been to"

" A brilliant exhibition! Great to see"

"Fantastic range of artist work. Truly stimulating"

"Do it again we love it"

Drawing Course - Ruth Wallace

Some images from Ruth's monday morning drawing class:

In this course, designed for beginner to intermediate students, the emphasis is on enjoyment and developing confidence. Students are encouraged to explore a variety of materials and different approaches to drawing and build up their own mark-making 'vocabulary' at their own speed.

Tool Drawing Workshop

Great fun was had today with our Tool Drawing workshop run by the DRAW group. Watch out for more workshops with them later in the year!