SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING Artists Development Programme 2018/19
Painting & Freedom
The School of Landscape Painting
Founded in 2009 as a personal response to the subject of painting and landscape. The Artist Development Programme (ADP) is part of the school that provides a platform to combine the practical challenges of painting with that of academic study. There are also short courses in printmaking and other specialist Saturday day courses through the year. Key aims: 1. To grow in individual work. 2. Deepen a connection to landscape. 3. Set down a framework within which a group of paintings, drawings and prints can happen. 4. Expand and deepen work through the study of landscape, painting language and materials. 5. Bring together artists to inform and support.
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The Artist Development Programme
This is a programme that is within The School of Landscape Painting. It is for those of you who wish to have a theoretical and a practical foundation to painting and drawing related to landscape. It is also for those already with a professional and academic background, wishing to challenge and develop work with renewed inspiration and deeper communion with the subject. The year includes monthly notes and podcasts, a field trip, studio sessions each month, individual tutorials with group critiques to support and inform your work and help fully realise stated aims. It is designed to provide a professional practice, inspire individual work and make unique connections to your subject matter. The ADP is a proven structure within which to work, it encourages a routine in which to develop your ideas. You will be able to set out clear aims over the year and have a regular discipline with other painters. The Artist Development Programme is a focus and a freedom in which to work and study. The ADP monthly sessions take place in three studios across Sussex and Hampshire, students are asked to chose one location that will suit them.
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ADP Monthly Sessions Venues and Dates 2018 - 2019 The ADP monthly sessions take place in three studios across Sussex and Hampshire, students are asked to chose one location that will suit them.
Monday 9.30am - 4pm
Binsted Studio, Binsted Lane, Nr Arundel, BN18 0LH 2018 September 24th October 6th - 13th Field Trip November 5th December 3rd
2019 January 7th February 4th March 4th April 8th June 3rd
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Tuesday 9.30am - 4pm
Westerlands Farm, Graffham, near Petworth, GU28 0QJ 2018 September 25th October 6th - 13th Field Trip November 6th December 4th
2019 January 8th February 5th March 5th April 9th June 4th
Wednesday 9.30am - 4pm
Stockbridge Town Hall, Hurford Hall, Stockbridge, SO20 6HE 2018 September 26th October 6th - 13th Field Trip November 7th December 5th
2019 January 9th February 6th March 6th April 10th June 5th
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Field Trip
St Davids Peninsula Field Trip 2018: Oct 6th - 13th
The field trip is a great opportunity for the students to begin research, gather material & ideas and meet other students studying the course.
Start: Sat 6th Oct 4pm End: Sat 13th Oct 12 noon This is an uninterrupted time for primary research in the spectacular landscape of St Davids Peninsula, gathering material for later work in the year. We shall be experimenting with your initial reactions to landscape and the intellectual response. Particular focus is on the experience of this landscape through feeling and its form.
Full details of the course will be sent nearer the time. Accommodation: There are excellent places to stay near to and in St Davids - details are available from our office. (accommodation is not included in the price)
Students will be expected to produce a group of paintings and drawings that can form a basis of research for later work in the year. We have a dedicated studio and lecture room in the Graham Sutherland Landscape Gallery (see image below).
Enquiries email:
office@schooloflandscapepainting.com
Every day at 9.30am there are introductory talks on painting ideas and working processes. Practical sessions and individual tutorials are held throughout the rest of the day. Students will be able to work in the stunning landscape and seascapes very close to St Davids.
Graham Sutherland Landscape Gallery, Oriel y Parc, St Davids 6
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Discussion Theme Feeling, Form & Freedom
Painting is freedom. If you jump you might fall on the wrong side of the rope. But if you’re not willing to take the risk of breaking your neck. What good is it? You don’t jump at all. You have to wake people up. To revolutionise their way of identifying things. You’ve got to create images they won’t accept. Force them to understand that they are living in a pretty queer world. A world that’s not reassuring. A world that’s not what they think it is. -Picasso
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Landscape Painting
The painting of Landscape has timeless values. It is the source of our best creative endeavours, and it reveals to ourselves and others an experience of being alive within its forces and spaces. Painting is not merely a record of a landscape, but the union of artist and subject. It is the record of an experience of a landscape. It is not only decorative, it is transformative. It changes those who gaze upon it and allow themselves to feel that dynamic that embraced both the artist and subject. And that will allow us, for this moment of true attention to become part of this extraordinary world, to feel something of which we have never before encountered. In the School of Landscape Painting we are immersed in the landscape, we study valuable painting processes and traditions that will allow us to give form to such experiences.
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Additional Courses
Monotypes
16, 17, 18th November 2018 Fee: £520 (Deposit £100) Venue: Binsted Studio, Nr Arundel. BN18OLH
This is a very creative and flexible process that lies somewhere between drawing and painting and omits the labour intensive aspects of other printmaking processes. At Christopher’s studio near Arundel, West Sussex, there are two large presses measuring 3 feet by 2 feet, and plates of all sizes. It is a chance to produce a suite of quality prints over 3 days taught by Christopher Baker together with guest Master Printer Andrew Purches, providing advice and ideas of methods and the expressive potential of this medium.
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Image: Sally Cole
Drawing with Charcoal. Landscape
Dates: June 14, 15, 16. 2019. 9.30am - 4pm Fee: ÂŁ485 (Deposit ÂŁ100) Venue: Binsted Studio, Nr Arundel BN18OLH
The dark mark on a white surface executed with immediacy gives charcoal its exciting and authoritative note. For the artist charcoal drawing communicates a direct and spontaneous expression of their feeling and thinking. Students are introduced to a variety of approaches to this drawing medium. They are encouraged to develop their own range of expression both technically and intellectually. The subject matter will be the landscape, and the sea nearby as well as open fields just outside the Binsted Studio. This allows us to look at a range of approaches and drawing principles with this medium. We will be carry out tonal studies in the landscape, both small and large scale work. There will also be discussion on artists who work in charcoal. Course details and directions on booking. 11
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Tutor Profile Christopher Baker has a wide experience of both North American and European traditions of landscape painting. He has travelled extensively to study and paint; as far as the High Arctic & Antarctic Peninsular, and his own locale as in ‘64 Days’. From this primary research he has created large groups of thematic works for exhibitions at The Royal Academy, London, Banff Centre For The Arts, Canada, and Pallant House, Chichester. He has a belief in a strong and intimate connection with nature and a passion that art, at its best, is one of the supreme manifestations of mankind’s ability to experience that which is both beyond and within. With this unique vision and valuable experience he is able to help artists structure and provide an individual developmental programme in the School of Landscape Painting – through the ADP.
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“Throughout a long career his love of subject has been matched by a relentless determination to discover a consistent quality of newness in his understanding of the natural environment. He is not a ‘repeatist’ artist, indeed, there is a skill and freshness in the way he handles his subjects which is truly mesmeric. The paintings always work on two levels. They have a strong narrative and at the same time a powerful aesthetic appeal. It is a measure of his work that you do not need to look for clever phrases to respond to it. He articulates his vision so precisely, his method of doing so is at one with his love of subject and profound spiritual engagement. His audience sense that his pictures are right. Here is honesty and truth. They have all stood on a mountaintop or rocky headland with wind and spray in their face reveling in the joy of existence”. Professor David Carpanini. August 2016.
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Saturday Courses Studio Painting. From drawing to studio works. Venue: Binsted Studio, Nr. Arundel. 10:00am - 4.00pm Part 1 & 2: ÂŁ265 Per part: ÂŁ145 Materials list on booking. Studio painting is critical to the development of the landscape painter. This is a two-part course on how to make studio works from studies carried out in the landscape. Part 1 December 8th, 2018. The day consists of working from primary studies carried out in the landscape and then setting out a developmental stategy for studio works. Part 2 February 2nd, 2019. Making paintings from the ground up using drawing stategies that combine with the techniques of painting. We shall be looking at tone, colour, composition and how to retain the freshness of the first idea in paint. These are practical information based day sessions.
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ADP Course Fees
Price with Field Trip £1,348 8 Sessions & 6 Day Field Trip Deposit (to secure your place) £220 and £94.00 per month (12 payments)
Price less Field Trip £885 Deposit (to secure your place) £100 and £65.00 per month (12 payments)
Bookings and Enquiries Jill McLachlan 01344 314444 office@schooloflandscapepainting.com
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The freedom is in the paint; one must become the paint, so to speak, feeling it flow through the end of the brush. Philip J. Carroll
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