BrisFest 2010 - Photos

Image courtesy of colinrayner.org.uk

Had a lovely time at the weekend at BrisFest, workshop was very successful with so many people willing to have a go, maybe we have unleashed the next Picasso, you never know!

Check out Facebook for lots more photographs:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5947264514&v=wall

Thanks to Valerie and her team of willing volunteers for setting it all up, already looking forward to next year.

BrisFest 24th - 26th September 2010

We're running a free to all drop in life drawing session at the Brisfest again this year, last year was great fun and a chance for anyone who has always fancied a go at life drawing to just pick up a piece of charcoal and go!

Modelling again with be Michaela and Carol Peace will be the tutor so come and see us on Sunday between 1pm and 2:45pm.

While you're at it check out the rest of the festival there is a great and varied line up over the whole weekend.

http://www.brisfest.co.uk/

Not sure what we are talking about? Have a look at these pics from last year:

http://bristoldrawingschool.blogspot.com/2010/01/life-drawing-at-bristol-festival.html

Art in Action - Pictures

We had a lovely time at Art in Action this year, the weather kept mostly dry and the turnout was great 25,000+!

Thanks to Damien and Mark and all the Art in Action staff for looking after us.



The masterclasses proved very popular with good crowds jostling to see our artists in action


Ruth Wallace in action


Ros Ford on her stand


Helen Frost


Carol Peace and Ros Ford


You can see more photos on our Flickr account here

Art In Action

We are off to Art in Action this week, this is a huge arts festival  just outside oxford where we have been invited to show in the Drawing Tent.

About Art in Action:
Founded in 1977, Art in Action is a festival of fine art and master craftsmanship, where artists take the visitor on a creative journey by demonstrating what they do, often from concept to completion. Staged in the grounds of Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, artists set up their studios each July in one of many spacious marquees. They work in front of visitors, giving them the rare opportunity to observe the creative process at first hand.
More information here: http://www.artinaction.org.uk

Art in Action Press Release
In 2010 the Drawing section is focussing on the role of the art school in nurturing the next generation of artists. We feel that education is crucial; and that Art in Action can help to support and showcase schools that share our vision of artists - artists who combine deep thoughtfulness about the role and content of art in contemporary society with a level of masterful craftsmanship that evokes beauty in every cultivated form. Bristol Drawing School has been selected, and represented in the Drawing tent are three of its senior tutors plus one student who was awarded a place in recognition of excellence.

Bristol Drawing School is a not for profit private arts venue and education facility that aims to encourage and nurture the art of drawing, not only as an art form in its own right, but as an essential part of the creative process. We offer drawing courses and workshops throughout the year as well as curating a regular series of exhibitions and artist talks. We see our role as being able to provide a variety courses suited to professional artists as well as beginners, without the need to gain formal qualifications and with the flexibility for them to study them as often as they like. We provide a nurturing atmosphere where artists, students and tutors mix together providing support and encouragement, and as a school we promote their work as much as possible, for example in a recent exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy. We are currently expanding our curriculum to include complementary skills such as painting and printmaking but with these as in the drawing courses the emphasis is on the learning and practice of the skills needed to excel in these arts.

Life Drawing Masterclass:

Every day at 11.00am and 4.00pm the Bristol Drawing School artists will gather round a life model for 1 hour, in a recreation of the age-old rarefied environment of the life-room. Members of the public can watch as four life drawings rapidly unfold before their eyes, revealing both the magic of the drawing process and the fascinating difference between one artist and another as they each represent the same subject in entirely individual ways.

Festival runs from Thursday 15 July to Sunday 18 of July 2010 - See you there!

Bristol Drawing School at Art in Action

We are excited to be asked to help Damian Fennell curate the Drawimg tent at Art in Action this year, the event runs from from Thursday 15 July to Sunday 18 of July 2010.

If you haven't been before, you're in for a treat, there are literally hundreds of artists demonstrating their expertise in Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Printmaking, Ceramics, Calligraphy, Illustration, Glass, Metalwork, Jewellery, Nature in Art,Textiles and Woodworkwith many practical classes to get hands on with.

More information here: http://www.artinaction.org.uk

We will be taking four artists from the school who will be showing work and demonstrating. They'll also be running masterclasses at points throughout the weekend.

They are:

Ros Ford who will be demonstrating using sketch books and other visual materials to create larger scale drawings using mixed media.

Carol Peace, a sculptor who could not work without drawing, and who has appeared three times in the last five years in the Sculpture tent at Art in Action. The process of drawing for her is about learning, gathering information and an intuitive response to life.

Ruth Wallace who makes large-scale drawings in charcoal and mixed media which explore memories and traces of the past. She will be demonstrating some of the techniques she uses.

Figure artist Helen Frost seeks sublime gestures; where the intense emotional experience of gesture transcends the personal, becoming universal. She creates drawings that connect to our shared humanity through the language of the body, capturing a fleeting glimpse of energy and presence.

Hope to see you there!

Life Drawing at the Bristol Festival

Our free life drawing workshops at the Bristol Festival proved very popular with many passers by stopping in to have a go.