As artists, we are always keen to develop our technical skills in the craft of drawing and painting – and rightly so.
But how much time do we devote to developing and nurturing our creative skills as artists?  

Core drawing skills
To help artists engage with the world, our teaching ethos embraces;

• Teaching core observational skills through ‘drawing from life’ to provide the foundation for critical looking.
• Teaching drawing skills and rendering techniques that support accurate vision
• Teaching the formal elements of art to strengthen students’ visual language

Embracing Self expression
To guide student’s to discovering their unique artistic voice, our teaching is steeped in the Modernist and Expressionist traditions that puts the artist’s voice at the centre of creativity.  Expressionism has been embraced by a wide range of Modernist artists throughout the 20th century and contemporary artists today, giving them a wide range of styles and genres within which to express themselves.

With a foundation in core observation and drawing skills, choosing to follow the Expressionist tradition gives artists the opportunity to exploit the qualities of each material they choose to use and discover unique ways to express themselves.

We are not a Realist art school
We don’t follow a Classical Realist tradition in the style of the ‘old academies’ that tend to train artists within a specific style of working, or narrowly follow the Photorealist style that began in the 1960’s.