Artist Development Programme 2017/18

Artists Development Programme 2017/18

Essential Painting: Landscape and Abstraction

The School The School of Landscape Painting was founded by Christopher Baker, with 30 years experience as a professional artist, as a personal response to the subject of painting and the landscape.

It aims to combine the practical challenges of landscape painting with that of academic study, and to help produce a body of work that clearly shows the defined aims of the individual.

Within the school there is a culture of discussion and shared experience to encourage a deeper communication of the subject.

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The Artist Development Programme

The programme provides a regular monthly arena for painters. It is a practical course that provides technical, professional and philosophical support for each artist’s progression and development.

Each month there is a day course that includes individual tutorials and notes on painting; running from 9.30am - 4pm at one of three studios in Sussex & Hampshire from October 2017 through to June 2018.

The Artist Development Programme (ADP) also includes a field trip to Wales, a week of uninterrupted time on the St Davids Peninsula, April 2018.

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The Programme • Sessions (one day a month/ a choice of Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday) give you practical support, guided and tutored by Christopher Baker.

• London gallery visit: Research and Lecture.

• Studio Plus (optional untutored group sessions).

Students come from all levels of experience, from self taught painters to those with art school backgrounds.

• Sessions take place in three studios across Sussex & Hampshire.

• Focused development on your work.

• Written notes and podcasts available before each studio session.

• Information and optional project assignments.

• Projects that develop and identify your subject matter.

• One week field trip to Wales in April 2018.

• Discussion with professional and amateur artists within the School of Landscape Painting.

• An individual tutorial each session.

• Themed talks on process, systems, materials, content and place connected to your work.

This year’s programme theme is Essential Painting: Landscape and Abstraction.

Monthly payment plan available for the year.

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Tutor Christopher Baker BA (Hons) Fine Art, Post Graduate Certificate in Education, Exeter University, founder of the The School of Landscape Painting. Senior painting tutor at West Dean College, visiting tutor Pallant House Gallery. He has explored different Landscapes including The High Arctic and Antarctica. Awarded a landscape Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Arts and other major awards which include the British Arts Council and Canadian Arts Council. Solo shows at The Medici Gallery, Cork Street, Pallant House Contemporary Art Gallery, Moncrieff Bray Gallery, and Portsmouth City Museum, Flying Colours Gallery, Chelsea. Group shows at The Royal Academy, Royal College of Art. www.christopherwbaker.com

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Theme Essential Painting: Landscape and Abstraction is the theme for this year’s artist development programme.

We will focus on the essential and the simplified elements of your original intention of which the study of landscape and abstraction will contribute.

In our work we can see a multitude of elements that connect with a nucleus of energy - towards an expression of a vision. Sometimes this expression is pulling in different directions, and needs to be simplified, intensified and distilled.

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Appearance is then transformed into experience of place and will give an individual voice to the work.

It is not so much a concentration on the argument for Abstract painting, rather a focus on essentials.

We shall be researching the ways we interact with the landscape, and transpose those experiences both ‘en plein air’ and in the studio.

We wish to do work that has conviction, and demonstrate the main elements clearly and essentially.

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ADP Monthly Sessions Venues and Dates 2017 - 2018 Monday

Binsted Studio, Binsted Lane, Nr Arundel, BN18 0LH 9.30am - 4pm 2017 October 23rd November 7th (gallery visit) December 4th 2018 January 8th February 5th March 5th April 22nd - 29th Field Trip May 7th June 4th

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Tuesday

Westerlands Farm, Graffham, near Petworth, GU28 0QJ 9.30am - 4pm 2017 October 24th November 7th (gallery visit) December 5th 2018 January 9th February 6th March 6th April 22nd - 29th Field Trip May 8th June 5th

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Stockbridge Town Hall, Hurford Hall, Stockbridge, SO20 6HE 9.30am - 4pm 2017 October 25th November 7th (gallery visit) December 6th 2018 January 10th February 7th March 7th April 22nd - 29th Field Trip May 9th June 6th 9

Field Trip

April 22nd - 29th Field Trip 2018 Start: Sat 22nd April 4pm End: Sat 29th April 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. (accomodation is not included in the price) Enquiries email:

office@schooloflandscapepainting.com

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).

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

The field trip is a great opportunity for the students to begin research, gather material & ideas and meet other students studying the course.

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Gallery Visit Tate Modern Date: 7th November 2017 Venue: Bankside, London SE1 9TG Comparing abstract and figurative approaches to art.

Looking at works in the permanent collection - Rothko, Matisse, Kandinsky, Mondrian. Works also by Agnes Martin and Antony Gormley are brought together to introduce two contrasting practices, explored in this room. Martin was one of many twentieth-century artists whose work turned away from the recognisable world and towards abstraction. Gormley’s sculpture shows how, at the same time, artists have continued to find new ways to represent the human figure.

Artists leave their mark on their work, and on the world, in very different ways.

Gormley casts his own body in lead, while the pencil lines and bands of pale colour wash in Martin’s paintings are very evidently handmade. Both artists encourage the viewer to spend time looking, and to find meaning beyond the external appearance of the work. Gormley sees his sculpture as a tool to link ‘inner and outer worlds’, while Martin believed strongly in the power of abstract painting to elicit experiences of beauty.

Landscape with Factory Chimney by Vasily Kandinsky, 1910, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Additional Courses

Drawing with Charcoal

Dates: December 11th - 13th 2017 Times: 9.30am - 4pm Fee: £460 (Deposit £100) Venue: Stockbridge Town Hall, Hurford Hall, Stockbridge, SO20 6HE Charcoal is a drawing medium capable of expressing a great range of marks – from very delicate modulations of tonal values through to broad and dramatic marks that convey extraordinary power and conviction. The dark mark on a white surface that is executed with such immediacy gives charcoal its exciting and authoritative note, and for the artist communicates a direct and spontaneous expression of their feeling and thinking. It is my intention to set in place a series of technical ideas connected with charcoal, as well as intellectual tools which students can later use in their own work. The study of technique cannot be separated from ways of seeing and from perception so these elements will be integrated. Objective observation and basic drawing principles will form the basis for a more individual interpretation.

Monotype Course to be confirmed.

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ADP Course Fees Price with Field Trip £1,240 8 Sessions & 6 Day Field Trip Deposit (to secure your place) £220 and £85.00 per month (12 payments) Price less Field Trip £820 Deposit (to secure your place) £100 and £60.00 per month (12 payments) Bookings and Enquiries Jill McLachlan 01344 314444 office@schooloflandscapepainting.com

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The progression of a painters work as it travels in time from point to point will be towards clarity, toward the elimination of obstacles between painter and the idea, and between idea and the observer.

Mark Rothko

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