Fire up your creativity with this webinar designed to inspire you to get making and investigating at home. This series of live sessions delivered from Artist Alice Mumford’s Cornish home will guide you through some of the key concepts around composition.

Sign up for one or all three sessions.  The sessions include a demo from Alice and looking at paintings to explore how composition works. After each session Alice 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. You can share this with your fellow students on St Ives School of Painting Alumni Facebook group.

The St Ives School of Painting is a charity and we rely on our students’ fees to run. Can you help us reach our 83rd birthday next spring? Alice has generously donated her time for free to deliver these sessions. There is a small charge and we invite you to donate on top of this whatever you feel you can afford. Anything you can donate we can gift aid. It will help ensure the School can keep operating at this difficult time when our loyal students are unable to visit us.

Once you have booked a session, we will send you an invite to the session so you can register with Zoom and join us. You can put questions to Alice during the session using the question and answer function during the webinar. We plan to 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 fellow students from around the world.

What will I learn?

1. Understand better why composition works in some paintings and not so well in others so you can use this understanding in your own work.
2. How to avoid composition clangers
3. Grasp better the core areas of composition -spatial tension, focal points, movement
4. A better understanding of how composition underpins an art work helping you read paintings with more confidence.

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.

What to Bring

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.