Art

St John’s has been travelling around the world from the safety of the Art studio, learning about artists and techniques from across the globe.The art curriculum is split into eight continents, each year group has a continent for the whole year, and each specialism – be that textiles, ceramics, painting, woodwork, mechanisms or drawing – is allocated a country for inspiration.The results really do transport you to another place; from wooden Hausa Mask Clocks from Nigeria,to monochrome Chulucanas pottery from Puru, Spider lace patterns from Paraguay to Russian Dolls and Madhubani peacock paintings – our budding artists have picked up a wealth of techniques from an atlas of cultures.They’ve also explored the life and artworks of a diversity of artists, such as South African artist Esther Mahlangu, known for her bold large-scale contemporary paintings that reference her Ndebele heritage, and Japanese autistic ceramicist, Shinichi Sawada and his amazing thorny creations.