Summer School brochure - The Prince's Drawing School
Summer School brochure - The Prince's Drawing School
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<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> aim of <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> is to raise the standard and profile of drawing<br />
through teaching and practice. It is one of only a few institutions offering in-depth, quality<br />
tuition for those who wish to develop their observational drawing skills.<br />
We need to learn to see and to draw properly again. In spite of the advances in technology,<br />
drawing by hand, eye and brain is still the most sophisticated and advanced way to organise our<br />
visual perceptions. Many art schools have diminished the role of drawing, but <strong>The</strong> Prince’s<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> believes it is vital for art and artists to continue questioning and exploring the<br />
world through drawing. Paul Gopal-Chowdhury, tutor<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> is part of <strong>The</strong> Prince’s Charities, a group of not-for-profit organisations<br />
of which <strong>The</strong> Prince of Wales is President. <strong>The</strong> charities reflect <strong>The</strong> Prince of Wales’<br />
long-term and innovative perspective, and seek to address areas of previously unmet need.<br />
For further information about <strong>The</strong> Prince’s Charities please visit www.princescharities.org<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> runs from 2 - 27 July 2012. All courses run for one, two or three weeks, as<br />
stated, from 10am - 5pm, Monday to Friday.
<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> / <strong>The</strong> <strong>Drawing</strong> Marathon<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Drawing</strong> Week Double Marathon<br />
10 or 5 day course: Monday 9 - Friday 13 July and Monday 16 - Friday 20 July<br />
Studio 1 / 10am-5pm<br />
An intensive two week course, specially designed for those students really interested in improving<br />
their drawing skills. Students will have the opportunity to work with four tutors over<br />
the two weeks — each week culminating in a critique of students’ work. <strong>The</strong> intention of the<br />
double marathon is for students to progress from one week to the next, however, students<br />
unable to commit to both weeks will be able to book on to either Part One or Part Two.<br />
* All levels welcome including beginners<br />
* A concessionary rate of £350 will be available to any student embarking on the full<br />
Two Week Double Marathon<br />
Fee: £350 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Drawing</strong> Week Double Marathon (two week course)<br />
OR<br />
Fee: £200 One week Marathon only (Part One OR Part Two)<br />
Part One: Monday 9 — Friday 13 July (five days)<br />
Tutors: Robert Dukes and Harriet Miller<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> from a life model in the studio, students will begin by making quick drawings,<br />
progressing to more sustained studies that consider the physical relationship of the model<br />
to their surroundings. Students will explore proportion and relationships of form, moving<br />
into linear sensitivity and tonal relationships. Discussion of the various reasons for making<br />
life-drawings will be encouraged.<br />
Fee: £200 per week<br />
Part Two: Monday 16 – Friday 20 July (five days)<br />
Tutors: Charlotte Mann and Ann Dowker<br />
This week will give students the opportunity to draw both in the studio, from film and from<br />
the collections at <strong>The</strong> National Gallery, with poses from paintings studied being recreated<br />
later in the studio with a life model. <strong>The</strong> days will be structured around these different starting<br />
points, as well as exercises and challenges designed to keep us on our toes, awake and<br />
alert, to all the possibilities of drawing.<br />
Fee: £200 per week<br />
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<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong> / One Week Courses<br />
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist Tutor: Marcus Cornish<br />
Week 1<br />
5 day course: Monday 2 - Friday 6 July<br />
Out of House / 10am-5pm<br />
A drawing and sculpting course centred on the summer exhibition at <strong>The</strong> Queen’s Gallery,<br />
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist. This course is a rare opportunity to see, study and work from<br />
some of the finest drawings ever created.<br />
We will look carefully at how Leonardo constructed his illusions on the page and how he<br />
used these drawings, following his three dimensional journey from the skeleton, through the<br />
layers of muscle and out to the skin. After studying and drawing from the collection, we will<br />
have use of a private studio in <strong>The</strong> Queen’s Gallery to work from a life model, making drawings<br />
that will lead to a final wax sculpture.<br />
This course is delivered in collaboration with <strong>The</strong> Royal Collection and includes a visit to the<br />
anatomical casts at the Royal Academy, and lectures from a leading surgeon and the Royal<br />
Collection’s curator, Martin Clayton. All entrance fees are included in the course fee.<br />
Fee: £250<br />
Visit to Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist at<br />
<strong>The</strong> Queen’s Gallery / Lecture from Martin<br />
Clayton, curator of <strong>The</strong> Royal Collection /<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> from art / <strong>Drawing</strong> from life /<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> the human anatomy / Sculpting the<br />
figure in wax / Lecture by a leading surgeon /<br />
Visit to the anatomical casts at the historic<br />
Royal Academy Life Room<br />
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Heads and Hands: Painting the Half-Length Portrait Tutor: Ivy Smith Week 1<br />
5 day course: Monday 2 - Friday 6 July<br />
Studios 1 and 2 / 10am-5pm<br />
<strong>The</strong> head is the most particular and revealing indicator of individuality, but the hands come<br />
a close second. This course will focus on the half-length clothed portrait, exploring its rich<br />
potential for composition and colour relationships in paint. Students will have a choice of<br />
models and a final three day pose which will allow an in-depth response to the figure. Suitable<br />
for all levels.<br />
Fee: £200<br />
One Week One Pose: <strong>Drawing</strong> and Painting Tutor: Claudia Carr<br />
Week 2<br />
5 day course: Monday 9 - Friday 13 July<br />
Studio 2 /10am-5pm<br />
Students will work from the life model in one pose for the whole week, allowing for sustained<br />
perceptual concentration, with the freedom to experiment and revise. Through drawing,<br />
painting, colour demonstrations and discussion we will explore tone, colour, light, temperature,<br />
spatial relationships, composition and pictorial structure and rhythm. <strong>The</strong> course is<br />
designed for students of all levels.<br />
Fee: £200<br />
<strong>The</strong> Etching Week Tutor: Thomas Gosebruch<br />
Week 2<br />
5 day course: Monday 9 - Friday 13 July<br />
Printroom /10am-5pm<br />
Etching can be so much more than cross-hatched lines. We’ll explore other ways of drawing,<br />
painting on, and printing from, the metal plate. Etching is not just a means of reproducing<br />
drawings — it often takes off in its own surprising ways. This course is for those who have<br />
always appreciated etchings but have never made one before, as well as for experienced<br />
etchers.<br />
Fee: £200<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> London’s Skyline<br />
Week 3<br />
Tutors: Sharon Beavan / Melissa Scott Miller / Martin Shortis<br />
5 day course: Monday 16 - Friday 20 July<br />
Out of House /10am-5pm<br />
This course is an opportunity for students to record and draw London’s skyline in its Olympic<br />
year, working with three tutors with three different approaches to city drawing. Students will<br />
visit sites from the South Bank to Parliament Hill and will also draw from indoor viewing<br />
platforms including views over the river from the Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf and the<br />
OXO Tower. This is a course for students interested in capturing the atmosphere and energy<br />
of the city, or for those wishing to explore the use of perspective in drawing.<br />
Fee: £200<br />
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<strong>Drawing</strong> Stories: Comics and Graphic Novels<br />
Week 3<br />
Tutor: Emily Haworth-Booth<br />
5 day course: Monday 16 - Friday 20 July<br />
Studio 2 /10am-5pm<br />
This course is suitable for both beginners and those with more experience. It is an ideal<br />
introduction to ‘writing with pictures’, offering guidance on everything from choosing tools<br />
to generating ideas. We will also spend some time drawing from life, combining observation<br />
with imagination and memory. For those with projects already underway, this is a an opportunity<br />
to reconsider both style and process, receive feedback and experiment with technique.<br />
By the final day students will have drawn and inked their own graphic short story. Open to all<br />
levels and ages from 16 plus.<br />
Fee: £200 per week<br />
Etching Masterclass: New Techniques Tutor: Lawrence Jenkins<br />
Week 4<br />
5 day course: Monday 23 - Friday 27 July<br />
Printroom /10am-5pm<br />
<strong>The</strong> printing facility in our basement workshop offers the chance to etch with individual<br />
guidance. Starting with making the plate, students are introduced to both traditional techniques<br />
as well as some new and unconventional methods. Students should bring drawings<br />
or reproductions of their work to the class. It is open to both beginners and those who would<br />
like to refresh their knowledge of etching.<br />
Fee: £200 per week<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong> the Human Anatomy Tutor: George Donald<br />
Week 4<br />
5 day course: Monday 23 - Friday 27 July<br />
Studio 1 /10am-5pm<br />
<strong>The</strong> study of human anatomy is fundamental to drawing the figure. It helps us to understand<br />
and represent the structure of the human form, and to combine expressiveness with accuracy.<br />
This course will cover the muscular and skeletal system, with particular emphasis on<br />
the torso, limbs, eyes, hands and feet. Students will work from life models and the skeleton.<br />
Fee: £200 per week<br />
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Kensington Palace Studios SUMMER scHOOL 2012<br />
Week One: 2 - 6 July<br />
Painting a Head Tutor: Susan Wilson<br />
5 day course: Monday 2 - Friday 6 July<br />
Studios 1 and 2 / 10am-5pm<br />
A painting class in which students will explore painting the portrait. Students will have the<br />
rare opportunity to paint from the same sitter for the duration of the week.<br />
“Velasquez imbued his sitters with a magical veracity, a quality of momentariness and a<br />
spiritual presence that Ortega Y Gasset described as “phantom-like”. By taking his subject and<br />
transforming it impressionistically into a mass of insubstantial brushstrokes which Quevedo<br />
termed “distant blobs” which from a distance became truth, not appearance, Velasquez achieved<br />
a configuration within the portrait where all that really mattered was the immediate reality of<br />
the person portrayed.” Alfonso E Perez Sanchez “Velasquez and the Baroque Portrait”<br />
In this intensive week of painting, students will aim to capture the personality of the model<br />
working from observation. Help will be given with mixing and use of paint and composition,<br />
but most of all the aim is to make the painted head have life. All levels of ability welcome.<br />
Fee: £325<br />
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Kensington Palace Studios SUMMER scHOOL 2012<br />
Week TWO: 9 - 13 July<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> Life Painting Tutor: Andy Pankhurst<br />
5 day course: Monday 9 - Friday 13 July<br />
Studios 1 and 2 / 10am-5pm<br />
“Painting is not the slavish copying of an object but the grasping of a harmony between several<br />
interactions…a powerful organising mind is the best aid to sensation in the realisation of a work<br />
of art.”<br />
Cézanne’s statement evokes the creative spirit and philosophy of the course. Working<br />
directly from a life model, a pose will be set for the duration of the week, giving students the<br />
opportunity for sustained perceptual concentration. All levels including beginners encouraged<br />
with individual one-to-one tuition.<br />
Fee: £325<br />
Kensington Palace Studios SUMMER scHOOL 2012<br />
Week THREE: 16 - 20 July<br />
Fabric and Form: Painting the Kimono<br />
5 day course: Monday 16 - Friday 20 July<br />
Studios 1 and 2 / 10am-5pm<br />
Tutor: Peter Kuhfeld<br />
A life painting course exploring the relationship of the life model with the kimono. Students<br />
will consider how the human figure, with its curves and overall structure, interrelates with<br />
the design of the kimono, from the pattern printed on the fabric to its geometric form. <strong>The</strong><br />
emphasis will be on colour, design, composition and the fusion of the figure with this classic<br />
robe.<br />
Fee: £325<br />
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Kensington Palace Studios SUMMER scHOOL 2012<br />
Week FOUR: 23 - 27 July<br />
Painting Materials Explained Tutor: Pip Seymour<br />
5 day course: Monday 23 - Friday 27 July<br />
Studio 1 / 10am-5pm<br />
An intense week of preparation of raw materials for painting, to include canvas stretching<br />
and priming; choosing oil colours and a practical workshop for hand-making oil colours and<br />
oil painting mediums. <strong>The</strong> hand-made materials will then be used to create a series of portrait<br />
studies from the model, working in the manner of 18th century portrait painters such as<br />
Romney and Reynolds.<br />
*Specialist materials will be provided for this course including canvases,<br />
paints and historic pigments and glaze mediums.<br />
Fee: £370 (includes £45 specialist materials fee*)<br />
Painting in the Park Tutor: Francis Hoyland<br />
5 day course: Monday 23 - Friday 27 July<br />
Out of House and Studio 3 / 10am-5pm<br />
“<strong>The</strong> rich brown-umber hue the oaks unfold<br />
When spring’s young sunshine bathes their trunks in gold,<br />
So rich, so beautiful, so past the power<br />
Of words to paint--my heart aches for the dower<br />
<strong>The</strong> pencil gives to soften and infuse<br />
This brown luxuriance of unfolding hues...”<br />
John Clare<br />
Students will draw the clothed model amongst the trees of Kensington Gardens, later transfiguring<br />
these drawings into paintings in the studio. Trees have grown into many poems and<br />
stories, remaining a continuous source of inspiration for painters and writers. For instance,<br />
Hopkins’ Binsey Poplars and Dante’s Wood of the Suicide. So find a short literary source<br />
that you like or have written yourself and bring it along. Anything can happen – just painting<br />
a tree from nature can be enough, or else something quite unexpected may germinate and<br />
grow – let’s see.<br />
Fee: £325<br />
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FOUNDATION MASTERCLASS<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
1-3 week courses for 16-19 year olds:<br />
Monday 9 - Friday 27 July<br />
An intensive summer course for young artists aged 16-19, thinking about heading to art<br />
school. This is a unique opportunity to hone skills, build a portfolio, and experience art<br />
school first hand.<br />
<strong>The</strong> course will focus on drawing, painting and printing with an emphasis on developing<br />
students’ skills and abilities and preparing a portfolio for Foundation or Degree application.<br />
Individual guidance will be given on art school applications, personal statements and portfolio<br />
preparation, alongside discussion and group critiques. One-to-one tuition will be given by<br />
a wide variety of the school’s faculty, led by Gethin Evans and Sharon Beavan who have over<br />
30 years combined experience in Foundation level teaching at leading London art schools.<br />
<strong>The</strong> intention of the Foundation Masterclass course is for students to progress from one<br />
week to the next, however, students unable to commit to all weeks will be able to book on to<br />
either Week 1, Week 2 or Week 3.<br />
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FOUNDATION MASTERCLASS<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
9 - 13 July<br />
FOUNDATION MASTERCLASS<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
16 - 20 July<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Drawing</strong> and Painting Week: From<br />
<strong>The</strong> National Gallery to Tate Britain<br />
This week students will draw, paint and print from a life model in the studio, looking at tone<br />
and composition, as well as visiting <strong>The</strong> National Gallery and Tate Britain to learn from the<br />
Masters. <strong>The</strong> week will culminate in individual advice sessions on art school applications,<br />
including portfolio preparation and personal statements.<br />
Fee: £200 (One week course) OR £550 (For all three weeks)*<br />
*Bursary places available<br />
London Now! A Sketchbook Journey<br />
This week students will engage with the city in its Olympic year, recording the experience<br />
of London life today. Students will draw and print at various Olympic sites including Anish<br />
Kapoor’s Orbit as well as London’s river and Docklands, and at inner city farms. <strong>The</strong> week<br />
will also include some time in the studio drawing from the life model and working up sketchbook<br />
studies into finished pieces. <strong>The</strong> week will culminate in individual advice sessions on<br />
art school applications, including portfolio preparation and personal statements.<br />
Fee: £200 (One week course) OR £550 (For all three weeks)*<br />
*Bursary places available<br />
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FOUNDATION MASTERCLASS<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
23 - 27 July<br />
Imagination and Materials: Bringing<br />
<strong>Drawing</strong>s to Life<br />
This week students will be encouraged to experiment with imagination and materials to<br />
bring their drawings to life. Students will draw from the model with unusual materials,<br />
before working with collage, montage and monoprinting. In the second part of the week<br />
students will look at storytelling, learning how to create a comic from an initial idea to an<br />
inked page. <strong>The</strong> week will culminate in individual advice sessions on art school applications,<br />
including portfolio preparation and personal statements.<br />
Fee: £200 (One week course) OR £550 (For all three weeks)*<br />
*Bursary places available<br />
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LOCATIONS AND BOOKING<br />
Fee: £550 Three Week Course OR £200 for any one week*<br />
*Bursary places are available for students who have difficulty in meeting the full fee – please<br />
contact the office to apply. Tel 020 7613 8568<br />
<strong>The</strong> course will run from our new studios in Trinity Buoy Wharf and Chelsea, where <strong>The</strong><br />
Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> will also deliver a new one year foundation course. <strong>The</strong> NEW Fine<br />
Art Foundation Course starts September 2012.<br />
Location: Studios in Trinity Buoy Wharf and Chelsea, London Galleries and City Visits<br />
(Travel assistance and escorting when necessary will be arranged)<br />
Visit summer exhibitions at London<br />
galleries / Draw London’s Olympic<br />
sites / Use imagination to bring<br />
drawings alive / Experiment with<br />
materials / Create your own<br />
comics and graphic novels / Fill your<br />
sketchbook / Discover monoprinting<br />
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How to find us<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
19-22 Charlotte Road<br />
London ec2a 3sg<br />
Nearest Tube: Old Street (Northern line) / Liverpool Street (Central, Hammersmith & City,<br />
Metropolitan lines)<br />
Nearest Overground: Shoreditch High Street<br />
Buses: 26, 35, 48, 149 and 242 run along Shoreditch High Street. 55 and 243 run along Old<br />
Street.<br />
Kensington Palace Studios<br />
Private Entrance, Palace Avenue (off Kensington High Street)<br />
London w8 4pu<br />
Nearest Tube: High Street Kensington (District & Circle lines)<br />
Buses: 9,10, 49, 52, 70, and 452 stop on Kensington High Street near Palace Avenue.<br />
Trinity Buoy Wharf (Foundation Masterclass)<br />
64 Orchard Place<br />
London e14 0jy<br />
Nearest Tube: Canning Town (Jubilee line) / North Greenwich (Jubilee line followed by<br />
designated boat service) / East India (DLR)<br />
Nearest DLR: East India (DLR)<br />
Buses: 277 (alighting at the Town Hall on the north side of East India station).<br />
Boat: A designated boat service runs from the O2 QEII Pier to Trinity Buoy Wharf Jubilee Pier.<br />
Escorting to and from stations can be arranged for students on the Foundation Masterclass<br />
where required.<br />
How to book<br />
<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
To book please visit www.princesdrawingschool.org, call 020 7613 8568 or email<br />
admin@princesdrawingschool.org.<br />
Foundation Masterclasses <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
To book please visit www.princesdrawingschool.org, call 020 7613 8568 or email<br />
admin@princesdrawingschool.org.<br />
Kensington Palace Studios <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
To book please visit www.kensingtonpalacestudios.org, call 020 7613 8568 or email<br />
admin@kensingtonpalacestudios.org.<br />
Students new to Kensington Palace Studios will need to complete and return a security form<br />
at least one week in advance of starting a course. Repeat students need not submit a new<br />
security form.<br />
Please download a security form from the website: www.kensingtonpalacestudios.org, fill it in<br />
and fax it to (0) 20 7613 8599, scan it and email it to admin@kensingtonpalacestudios.org or<br />
post it to Admissions, Kensington Palace Studios, Kensington Palace (Private Entrance),<br />
Palace Avenue, London w8 4pu.<br />
Accessibility<br />
Courses run from the studios at <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> in Shoreditch are fully accessible<br />
by wheelchair. For out of house classes, classes at Kensington Palace Studios, Trinity<br />
Buoy Wharf and Sydney Close Studios, please contact the office for full accessibility information<br />
as these venues may not always be suitable.<br />
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Support <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong> relies on the generosity of individuals, Companies, Trusts and<br />
Foundations to continue to run its Postgraduate Programme and subsidise both the Public<br />
Programme concessionary scheme and <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> Clubs.<br />
If you are interested in supporting emerging artists on our Postgraduate Programme or<br />
children attending <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> Clubs please contact <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
office at admin@princesdrawingschool.org or 020 7613 8568.<br />
Special thanks to <strong>The</strong> Monument Trust, Esmée Fairbairn, Winsor & Newton and Cass Art (www.cassart.<br />
co.uk), <strong>The</strong> Royal Collection, <strong>The</strong> National Gallery and the Royal Academy<br />
Photographs by Richard Ivey, Timothy Knowles and Liza Cucco<br />
Designed by <strong>The</strong> Prince’s <strong>Drawing</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Images by Leonardo da Vinci on p4 and p25 supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen<br />
Elizabeth II 2012<br />
Featured student artwork by Johanna Zhang (p3), Sophie Charalambous (p7), Jonathan Farr (p9), Leigh<br />
Fox (p10), Poppy Chancellor (p.13), Tom Sander (p15 and back cover flap), Fabienne de Lattre (p19),<br />
Anthony Banks (p20), Amy Ison (p21) and Richard Burton (p24).<br />
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