This course is designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of studio painting while preparing your development towards a professional contemporary creative practice. Painting is both material and conceptual, a language embracing a diverse range of forms, from flat chromatic monochromes, to hard-edged geometric abstraction, and the skillful construction of pictorial depth that takes the viewer beyond the painting’s physical surface.

Working in your home ‘studio’ you will complete a range of experimental and technical exercises. Through practice and research, you will learn painting tools, materials, supports, and develop a deeper understanding and ability to manipulate tone and colour to wide-ranging effect. The focussed, practical experiences in this course will be both rigorous and experimental to provide you with an understanding of painting’s specific processes and creative possibilities, enabling you to create both representational and abstract paintings.

In a stimulating and supportive learning environment you will share your work with class peers and develop skills for giving and receiving feedback. The class will learn about the practices of contemporary painters, and will be encouraged to virtually visit galleries and collections worldwide to give insight into the versatility of the medium and inform your individual creative development.