Monday 15 November 2021

 Hello everyone,

I'm very pleased to tell you that I'll be teaching some 10 week in person evening classes at Adult Learning Lewisham's Brockley Rise Centre, on Wednesdays and Thursdays 7.30 - 9.30pm, starting in January. 


The college are taking enrolments now, and you can find more information about the Wednesday life drawing and painting course here: https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0016br---life-drawing-and-painting---spring---73827


and the Thursday evening studio class here: https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app110sbr---drawing-and-painting---skills---studio---spring---75286


And don't forget my life drawing all day Saturdays that run every month! The next one is on December 11th - it's a hybrid class so look for OL on the end of the course code for zoom, and BR for the in person version at Brockley Rise: https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/subjects/life-drawing-and-portraiture

Enrolments are now open for the spring runs of my Friday classes at ALL too - Friday morning studio:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app008sbr---drawing-and-painting---studio---spring---73822

And Watercolour Made Easy: https://lewisham.gov.uk/cel/courses/app0057br---watercolour-made-easy---all-levels---74107


New runs of my independent classes Exploring Creativity 10 week course, and my Life Drawing Afternoons 5 week course start next week! Here are the details:

Exploring Creativity runs straight through for 10 weeks on Zoom, on Tuesdays 10am - 1pm. Each week we look at the work of a different artist - I send information on the Sunday before class and then on the day I give a lecture style presentation for the first hour, followed by a discussion. Then we have a tea break, followed by a demo where I show you techniques for making work inspired by the artist. You're free to follow along, or do your own thing. There's a sharing thread via email after class where you can post pictures of your work to share with the other students. The demo is videoed and if you don't want to attend live on zoom you can join the virtual version of the course, where I send the video to you via We Transfer.

The course is pay what you can - £5 per class minimum and £25 per class maximum, payable by bank transfer, sum up or pay pal - contact me by email for details. The virtual version of the course, where you receive the art demo video and access to the email information and sharing thread, but don't attend on zoom, costs £35 for the whole 10 weeks.

Here's the timetable for the winter run:

EXPLORING CREATIVITY

Winter Run 2021

Tuesdays 10am – 1pm

November 23rd 2021 - January 25th 2022

Week 1 – Nov. 23rd - Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Native Australian art

Week 2 - Nov. 30th - Sarah Moon – Painterly photography

Week 3 – Dec. 7th – Kandinsky – From landscape to abstraction

Week 4 – Dec. 14th – S. Elayaraja – Indian social realism

Week 5 – Dec. 21st – William Scott – Simplification and still life

Week 6 - Dec. 28th – Franz Marc – German Expressionism

Week 7 – Jan. 4th – Stephen Newton – Poignant interiors. The artist will be joining us for a Qand A session this week!

Week 8 – Jan. 11th – Hillary Watters Fayle – Embroidered leaves

Week 9 – Jan, 18th – Mary Beth Edelson – Radical feminist art

Week 10 – Jan 25th – Amedeo Modigliani – We’ll have a life model this week, please pay an extra £5 towards the model’s fee if you attend this class

Also on Tuesdays, 3-5pm, I'm running 5 weeks of life drawing afternoons on zoom. We spend the first half an hour looking at students' work from the previous week, where I give feedback and we chat about techniques, usually followed by a demo on that week's theme Then there's one and a half hours of life drawing. Here are the subjects for this coming run:


The cost is again pay what you can, minimum £40, maximum £75 - payable by bank transfer, sum up or paypal.

And in case you missed it, here are some photos - taken by Phil Polglaze - of Nunhead Local One - the exhibition that I co curated with Caroline Wright in September, part of Peckham Festival: