Artists Development Programme
School The School has been created as a personal response to the subject of Painting and the Landscape (SOLP). It aims to combine the practical challenges of painting with that of academic study and so encourage the individual’s deeper communication of their subject. Developing as an artist has become the main focus of School of Landscape Painting. It is a practical course that aims to establish a fully functional pictorial understanding of the idea of landscape and our individual response. Our aim is to create landscapes of our time with timeless qualities. The Artist Development Programme (ADP) includes a field trip to Wales. This is a week of uninterrupted time on the St David’s Peninsula, gathering material for later work in the year . Then each month a day course from 9.30am – 4.00 pm at one of our chosen studios in Sussex & Hampshire from October 2014 to July 2015.
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The Artist Development Programme provides: • Monthly sessions for practical support and individual tutorials guided and tutored by Christopher Baker and associate tutors. • Focused development of student’s work. • Course notes before each studio session, with information and suggested assignments. • Projects which develop and identify subject matter. • Discussion with professional and amateur artists within the study group. • Each month a timetabled individual tutorial. • Developmental structures from professional artists of 30 years experience. • Themed talks on the Imagination & Observation the place of the imagination in painting. • 9 monthly studio days, a weeks field trip, and a London gallery visit. • Studio Plus – which are untutored group sessions that provide a painting day during each month.
Students for the year’s course range from starting self-taught painters, to those with art school and postgraduate academic backgrounds. Monthly payment plan available for the year (see p.10)
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Field Trip 11-18th October 2014 St David’s Peninsula. Imagination & Observation The activity of observation and the power of Imagination This is an uninterrupted time for primary research in the landscape, gathering material for later work in the year. We shall discuss what the idea of Imagination in connection to painting and landscape. Particular focus is on the experience of this landscape through both observation and the imagination. We have a dedicated studio for developing work away from the motif. Every day at 9.15 am there are introductory talks on painting ideas and working processes - practical sessions & individual tutorials. Students will be able to work in the stunning landscape and seascapes very close to St Davids. As well as a visit to the Graham Sutherland Landscape Gallery. *The Field Trip is an integral part of the School, and seen as part of 2014-15 study. Further details will be sent on suggested equipment and the week’s timetable, on receipt of the booking form. We meet 4pm on 11th October end midday 18th October. 4
Sessions to include: • Ideas on Landscape - and the role of the imagination • Strategies for observing • Abstraction, Observation, Imagination • Studio work - working with observation drawings and studies. • The Materials – oil painting technique • Individual Tutorials, • Evening painting session . • Lectures- ‘Artists and the Place of the Imagination’ Studio is at the new Pilgrimage centre, Ty’r Pererin, St Davids. The studio looks out over the Cathedral Valley central St Davids. Accommodation: There are excellent places very close and in St Davids - details are available from our office. 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.
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ADP Monthly Sessions Venues and Dates Â
Monday
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Studio Duncton Petworth West Sussex GU28 0JY
Tuesday
Westerlands Farm Graffham near Petworth GU28 0QJ
9.30am - 4pm
9.30am - 4pm
Dates: October 6th, November 3rd, December 1st, January 12th, February 2nd, March 2nd, May 11th, June 1st, July 6th and Studio Plus by arrangement
Dates: October 7th, November 4th, December 2nd, January 13th, February 3rd, March 3rd, May 12th, June 2nd, July 7th and Studio Plus by arrangement
Wednesday
Stockbridge Town Hall Hurford Hall Stockbridge SO20 6HE
Thursday
Binsted Studio Binsted Lane Nr Arundel BN18 0LH
9.30am - 4pm
9.30am - 4pm
Dates: October 8th, November 5th, December 3rd, January 14th, February 4th, March 5th, May 13th, June 3rd, July 8th and Studio Plus by arrangement
Date: October 9th, November 6th, December 4th, January 15th, February 5th, March 5th, May 14th, June 4th, July 9th and Studio Plus by arrangement
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Tutors Christopher Baker
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. 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 Museum of Art. Flying Colours Gallery, Chelsea. Group shows at The Royal Academy, Royal College of Art. 2010 Acting role in Archipelago - Directed by Joanna Hogg. www.christopherwbaker.com 8
Jonathan Froud
Jonathan Froud MA RCA (Associate Tutor) has taught and lectured in the RA Schools on the MA programme. He completed his MA in sculpture at the RCA and was awarded a major travel scholarship. Also an award from The Henry Moore Foundation. He has exhibited at the Tate and had his first one man show in 1985 at the Walker Art Gallery. The origin of all the pieces and installations come from nature, its history and interconnectedness to the life of matter. He is an associate tutor at the School of Landscape Painting.
Louise Burston
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Louise Burston MA is an artist and designer based in the South West. She has an HND in Design and Visual Communication and a first class BA and MA. Louise currently lectures on the BA Art and Design Theory at the University of Wales in Swansea. Recent shows include Townhouse, London E1, Macclesfield Heritage Museum and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. She has experience of teaching art at all levels and is Head of the South West School of Landscape Painting.
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ADP Fees Artist Development Programme Course Fee £796
(£100 deposit + 12 monthly payments of £58)
Field Trip Course Fee £380 For students confirming their place on the course prior to 1st September 2014 a deposit of £100 will be due, followed by 12 monthly payments of £58. For those students confirming their place after 1st September 2014, a deposit of £100 plus £58 for each elapsed month is required followed by monthly instalments of £58 for the remaining months.
Bookings and Enquiries Jill McLachlan 01344 314444 office@schooloflandscapepainting.com 10
Complimentary Courses Monotypes - oil August 8-10th 2014 £365 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 my studio Nr Arundel West Sussex a large press measuring 3 feet by 2 feet, and plates of all sizes. A chance to produce a suite of quality prints over 3 days with a master printer, providing advice and ideas of methods and the expressive potential of this medium.
Monotypes - watercolour Please contact office for dates. The use of watercolours that are allowed to dry on the plate and then pressed with damp paper. The qualities are always surprising and can be used in conjunction with drawing media. Next Field Trip - St Davids 2015 April 25th – May 2nd.
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Everything imagined is reality. The mind cannot conceive unreal things. David Smith 1968