Lubaina Himid, Carpet, 1992 ©
Lubaina HimidJoin us for this new exciting, exploratory course helping you to transform your ideas, thoughts and obsessions into art.
What do you feel strongly about? Do you have something to say? Art can be a good way to communicate our thoughts or concerns or obsessions, but it’s not always easy to know how to start.
This course aims to help you identify what you want to say or explore, whether personal, political, or even philosophical, and then to experiment with ways to create work around that, or incorporate these ideas into your existing practice.
Camilla will help you transform ideas or interests into art, and will give you tips on processes and techniques to help this transition. Looking to contemporary artists such as Tracey Emin, Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei and Lubaina Himid, this new course will be fun and explorative. You will leave with new ways to explore your practice and express yourself.
(No one is obliged to discuss anything private within the group, or that they don’t wish to share. This wouldn’t mean that they can’t make work about it).
As a group and individually, we’ll consider possible ways to express specific, random messages. This will lead into a more personal exploration of what we want to say, and the beginnings of exploring how we might make art to do that job.
Brainstorming ideas for our own personal expression of our message, and the start of putting those ideas into a physical piece.
Developing and producing, perhaps finalising, the piece that is the first expression of our message.
This course is open to people of all experience levels that want to explore the possibilities of expression through art! It is an ideal place to nurture your creativity and understand the process from pieces that describe to pieces that evoke.
Our studios are fully equipped and we provide you with all the materials you need for your course. However, if you have a favourite set of brushes or any specialist materials that you would prefer to use, please bring them with you.
The first day starts at 10am and finishes at 4.30pm, please aim to arrive ten to fifteen minutes before the start time.
All course days after that start at 9.30am and finish at 4pm and there will be an hour for lunch. There are plenty of nearby places to eat and we will serve tea and coffee at break times during the day.
Kate Southworth
A chance to find out more about our year long 'Calendrical Art' course, creating in tune with the seasons. This is a taster session so you can decide if you would like to join the full year long course.
Gary Long
Join us for this recording of a two hour online figure class inspired by the Bay Figurative artist Richard Diebenkorn. Broadcast from our studio in St Ives with a clothed model.
Mon 10 - Thu 13 Nov - 4 days
Emily Roberts
How do you paint realistic portraits with great accuracy and detail? Learn how to master light and shadow and the basics of the classical sight size technique.
Thu 18 Sep - 3 hour(s)
Amy Albright
Amy Albright will lead this half-day workshop, helping you experiment with playful techniques and tools to create expressive abstract acrylic paintings.
Jill Eisele
Watch Jill Eisele in this recording as she takes us on an artist's journey to Joan Eardley’s Catterline on the wild east coast of Scotland. Explore how Eardley continues to inspire painters today.
Gary Long
Join Gary Long as he explores the distinctive mark-making of Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Recorded from our studio in St Ives with a model, you are invited to join in at home with guided exercises.
Kieran Stiles
When artists talk about light, what do they mean? How does it work, and what does it say? Explore different concepts and methods of representing light in this 2 and a half hour recorded online course led by artist Kieran Stiles.
