Bridget Woods
I am committed to enabling students to express an individual, rather than generic, style by expanding their mark-making vocabulary.
What will students gain if they come on one of your courses?
The skills to not only identify and, with practice, represent a likeness but which can also express their response to a subject. Also, the courage to explore ideas through painting and drawing.
Are there any particular techniques/processes you use in your teaching?I favour experiential teaching/learning methods for developing students’ personal expression. My teaching methods range from question and answer to demonstration and one-to-one tuition.
What inspires your own work?My response to the landscape particularly in relation to light, weather, and climate and the holisitic nature of the human body.
Where can students see examples of your work?On my website
The Forge Gallery
Open Doors and regular exhibitions.
Where did you gain your training? Experience?
Bournemouth and PooleCollege of Art. S.R.D, L.S.I.A.D
Self-teaching: Maastricht, Netherlands, one year. (Portrait skills) Aix-en-Provence, France, one year. (Oils, watercolour. Landscape, portrait, audio-visual cartoon) City and Guilds 730 FE teaching certificate
Taught watercolour, landscape, portrait and life drawing at ChichesterCollege in adult education 1979 - 2002.
The Earnley Concourse since 1982. Subjects ditto.
WestDeanCollege since 1996. Subjects ditto.
I have run painting holidays and given many courses and demonstrations for art societies and groups in Britain, France, Madeira and Iceland.
Many private collections
Books and articles:Book: ‘Life Drawing – a journey to self-expression’, published in 2003 by The Crowood Press)
DVD set: ‘Life Drawing - Techniques in Action’, published in 2008 by The Crowood Press.
8 x articles for The Artist magazine from 2005 onwards: life drawing, life painting, watercolour techniques, landscape, abstraction and plein air painting.
Society of Authors