Painting and Drawing

The programme

This programme is for students who consider the significance of their work to reside within the conception of art as an aesthetic enterprise. You will develop skills in making paintings and drawings (regarded generally as relatively flat supports of coloured or tonal arrangements of intentional marks) as well as being introduced to philosophical considerations of the nature of aesthetics. You will acquire advanced practical skills, and identify purposes and strategies by which pictures and other paintings and drawings are recruited to human purposes. Historical and contextual studies will help you develop an advanced understanding of the histories, techniques and methods of making paintings and drawings alongside an awareness of the social, political, or moral perspectives that are integrated within them. Experts in the field will help prepare you for professional life after the programme by helping you set up studio spaces and make contacts with galleries and other agents and agencies suited to the promotion of your work. The programme is part of a related group of diploma programmes and students are encouraged to work together, attending life drawing classes and seminars with students from Sculpture and Tapestry and Textile Art.

The tutors

• Dr Edward Winters
• Marcus Rees Roberts 

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The facilities

The programme is delivered in a purpose-built and dedicated studio. You will have your own personal studio space which includes a dedicated screened area (approximately 3mx3m), a mobile locker with work surface and a work chair. IT facilities are available within the studio, including a scanner, digital camera, image manipulation software and Internet access. Additional computers are sited within the college library and IT suite. There is also a photographic studio and fully equipped lecture rooms. All necessary basic materials are supplied and students are encouraged and advised how to build up their own equipment. A wide range of short courses is available to develop particular areas of professional practice.

Visiting lecturers

Tim Kent, Caroline de Lannoy, Jane Patterson, Daniel Preece, Sophie Plowden, Ian Rowlands, Gary Woodley