Facilities Exceptional Artist

Charlotte Stafford (MM 2016-21): ‘Charlie Stafford submitted eight original prints and six preparatory drawings for submission for election to Membership of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in April 2021. This body of work was viewed, assessed and discussed by a panel of globally renowned printmakers. The RE Council marvelled at her precision and dexterity at drawing mirrored across Charlie’s drypoint prints. That this work was accomplished by someone under twenty [years of age] is immensely astonishing by any standard.’

Opened in 2005, our purpose built Art School houses five open-plan studios for painting, drawing, relief and intaglio printmaking, screen printing, a photography darkroom and studio; lecture room and a computer suite and a well-resourced Art library. Two buildings adjacent to the Art School accommodate the ceramics and sculpture studios as well as a ‘large scale drawing’ studio. We also have a dedicated gallery and archive space in ‘The Mount House Gallery’ where pupils, teachers, parents and the wider community are able to regularly view a diverse programme of curated internal and external exhibitions.