Fire up your creativity with this series of one hour, live online sessions, designed to inspire you to get making and investigating at home. Delivered from Artist Alice Mumford’s Cornish home she will guide you through some of the key concepts around composition that have inspired her own work.

Alice will look at historical paintings to explore how she has learnt from them and show how you can use this knowledge yourself to strengthen your own work. Each one has a different theme so you can enjoy them as a stand alone session or book on for both. There will be an opportunity for students to pose questions to Alice during the session.

She will set you an optional project to work on during the week. This encourages you to make your own discoveries and enjoy doing research based on your fresh insights.

Once you have booked a session, you will receive an invite to register with Zoom. You can put questions to Alice during the session using the question and answer function. We record the session so we can let you revisit the session to refresh your memory for up to two weeks after. You will also be invited to join our brand new Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with our community of fellow students from around the world.

What will I learn?

Recognise when artists use triangles in compositions to animate a painting.

Understand how a sense of gravity works in a painting and how you can harness this in your own work.

See how mirrors have been used to communicate different ideas in paintings.

Understand how the “triangle” between viewer, painter and subject works and how this creates tension.

Who would this course suit?

Anyone with an interest in art, not just painters. Great for those who would like to get more out of their visits to galleries.

How Does an online session work?

Once you have booked a session, we will send you an invite to the session so you can register with Zoom and join us. It’s a good idea to register straight away and Zoom will then send you a link that you keep safe ready to use to get access to the webinar on the day.

You can put questions to Alice using the question and answer function during the webinar. We plan to record them so you can revisit the session to refresh your memory for up to two weeks after. You will also be invited to join our Facebook Alumni group so you can share your discoveries with fellow students from around the world.

What to Bring

You don’t need to bring any materials to the session. Later you can follow the exercises and Alice encourages you to do experiments using whatever you have to hand. i.e., paper and glue, charcoal, paint as well find examples of paintings. You can share this work on the School’s dedicated Facebook Alumni page.

You will need access to the internet and ideally a PC or laptop or a tablet with audio. Phones are not really suitable to watch a webinar on as the presenter will be hard to see when she shares her screen with you. But we will be sending you a recording of the session so you can revisit it. The exercise to do at home we will also email to you afterwards.

Timings and Breaks

As soon as you receive your confirmation from us make sure you follow the link and register with Zoom. Zoom will then send you a second link. Keep this safe. At about 4.15pm follow this link to go to your session’s waiting room. We will play a video with audio of students artwork we have collated so far in response these session. So you can check you are connecting ok. Any issues get in touch via email at [email protected], we will do our best to help.

We will start the session at 4.30pm. We expect each session to last about one hour. If you have any problems receiving your link email from us or from Zoom email us and we can get that sorted before the start time. In the session if you have questions you can use the chat function and we will do our best to advise.