SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Artist Development Programme 2024/2025
Pictorial Thought: Traditions and Individual Vision in Painting.
Course Overview 2024/2025
The Artist Development Programme is within The School of Landscape Painting. It is a theoretical and a practical foundation for painting and drawing, related to landscape. It is for artists already with a professional and academic background, to challenge and develop work, with renewed inspiration and a deeper communion with the subject.
The ADP is a proven structure within which to develop your ideas. You will be able to set out clear aims over the year and have regular discussion with other painters. ADP is a focus and a freedom within which to work and study. It is designed to provide a professional practice, inspire individual work and make unique connections to your subject matter.
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Introduction
We start the year with a visit to the National Gallery. This will provide food for thought in our painting which we will make use of throughout the year in our work. You will choose an area of study (see below), be given exercises and quotes in order to expand knowledge of processes and materials. As Frank Auerbach said: ‘he went to The National Gallery like going to a doctor, to see what was the matter with him.’
The study of great artist’s work is rich with information and ideas. It can be used to deepen the layers of pictorial thought in your own work.
The year consists of four blocks: September, October, March and June. There is a London gallery trip, two Wales Field trips, one in St Davids and the other in Dale both on the Pembrokeshire coast. Finally, a Sussex Studio week as a culmination of the year’s study.
Here at Burpham we will work in the studio, revealing the layers of your processes of pictorial thought acquired over the year. Ending with an exhibit presentation and group critique.
The National Gallery
Lecture and Research
26th September, 2024
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Wales Field Trip 1: St Davids
26th October2nd November, 2024
Saturday to Saturday
Wales Field Trip 2:
Dale
22nd March29th March, 2025
Saturday to Saturday
Sussex Studio, Burpham
Studio practice. Exhibit, presentation and group critique
2nd June6th June, 2025
Monday to Friday
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Content
Each student will select an area of study connected to the language of painting and its traditions - the materials and techniques, then apply to your own work.
Areas of study:
We shall be looking at ways artists have adapted and stretched tradtions, techniques and language to meet their vision. A study and knowledge of the traditions of pictorial construction enables vision to be built up to a greater intensity.
• Drawing – Strategies and its relationship to painting.
• Grounds and Surfaces, Paint. – Mixing theories, techniques and the expressive network. Beginnings, tonal grounds and coloured grounds.
Each student is will select an area of study connected to materials and techniques, and to their own work. Students will be challanged to stretch and adapt tradition techniques and processes, as a way to contribute to their creative vocubulary.
Areas of study:
• Observation – Experience of nature and its relation to pictorial thought.
• Drawing
• Grounds and Making Surfaces
• Colour – Tone with colour, colour as tone, colour as feeling.
• Paint
• Composition – Design and space.
• Observation and Experience of Nature
• Colour
• Composition
• Studio Work
• Studio Work – Drawing to final canvas, the growth of a painting.
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Additional Courses
Monotype Course 1
Binsted Studio, Nr Arundel.
16th - 18th May 2025
Fee: £580
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.
We shall define for ourselves the purpose of a monotypes in the context of our own work and subject matter and how they may inform each other. Prints will be made with a press and this will reveal a greater degree of transference of the marks from plate to paper than those pressed by hand.
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 providing advice and ideas of methods and the expressive potential of this medium.
Monotype Course 2
Large scale prints. Date to be confirmed.
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Wales Field Trips
This is an uninterrupted time for primary research in the spectacular landscape of Pembrokeshire Coastline, gathering material for later work. We shall be experimenting with your initial reactions to landscape and the intellectual response. Particular focus is on Pictorial Thought.
Students will be expected to produce a group of paintings and drawings that can form a basis for later work.
We have a dedicated studio and lecture room. 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 with the stunning landscapes and seascapes.
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Tutor Profile
Christopher Baker has 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 Peninsula and his own locale as in ‘64 Days’. From this primary research has created large groups of thematic works for exhibition 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 so 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 - though the ADP.
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Course Fees
ADP Course
Price £1,360
Deposit £220
£95 per month (12 Monthly Payments)
Additional Courses
Monotype Course 1
Price £580
Deposit to secure your place £100
Then £480 (6 weeks prior to course start)
Monotype Course 2
Price £580
Deposit to secure your place £100
Then £480 (6 weeks prior to course start)
Date to be confirmed
Bookings and Enquiries
Jill McLachlan 07590 047611
office@schooloflandscapepainting.com
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“How paintings are made is inseperable to your conception of the function of art.”
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“The activity of painting is constantly hopping between two rocks, one is precision and the other risk.”
John Scarland
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“I want to bypass cultural socially constructed entity of landscape and reach to the core of us and world.”
“Iwanttobypassculturalsociallyconstructedentityof landscapeandreachtothecoreofusandworld.”
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