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NEAC School of Drawing Curator:
Charles Williams |
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Drawing School
Staffed entirely by members of the NEAC, many of whom have a wealth of teaching experience, the Drawing School offers a thorough and sound approach to drawing in its many forms, with small classes to ensure a personal and individual tutor/student relationship.
The Drawing School is at the heart of what the NEAC represents. We run classes in the inspirational surroundings of The Royal Academy Life Room, on Wednesday evenings between 5.30 and 7.30 during RA Schools term time, and on some Saturdays. We also run short courses at various venues, mainly in London, on drawing, sketching en plein air, and working from drawing to painting. Courses are constantly in development, so please bookmark this page and check back regularly to keep up-to-date. We will also be advertising courses in the Friends’ Newsletter, available biannually.
Spring 2010 Classes now available
RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW
Some summer classes are available for booking other dates will be available soon.
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In the inspirational surroundings of the Royal Academy Life Room, designed specifically for the practice of life drawing, Charles Williams will take students through a series of exercises and other challenges designed to develop and define what drawing means to each student.
Please do not contact the RA Schools for information.
Dates
Spring Term 13th January to 17th March at the RA Schools Life Room.
Time
Wednesdays 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Antony’s paintings and drawings, rigorously observed from life, have had a significant presence on the art scene for some time – his work, mainly in egg tempera, represents hours of careful study and has an Old Master-like intensity. This is a rare opportunity to work with Antony Williams.
Dates
16th and 23rd January 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Arthur Neal’s powerful, almost abstract paintings are derived from long years of engagement with the central questions involved in translating the three dimensional, visible world to the two dimensional world of the painted surface. Arthur Neal’s teaching has all the qualities of his paintings; his great integrity shines through both.
Dates
6th and 13th February 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Jane Corsellis teaches rarely, and this Small Portrait Head project is only open to eight students. It has been inspired by her recent developing obsession with painting heads from observation, not as portraits but as “objects”. Painting in oil or watercolour is permissible, with the proviso that students are careful to clean up afterwards. Restricted numbers mean you need to book early.
Date
20th February 2010 - COURSE FULL
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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Paul Newland, Head of Education with the Royal Watercolour Society, has been a member of the NEAC for some years and always impresses with his carefully judged observational painting. In this course, Paul will be looking at tone in observation.
Dates
6th and 13th March 2010
Time
11.00am – 4.00pm
Venue
Royal Academy Schools
Life Drawing Room
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BD
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This indoor course based at The Courtauld Institute will take an intense look at, and study, particular works by great painters including: Cezanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Bonnard, Matisse, Van Dongen, Sickert, Nicholson, Sutherland and Hitchens. You will be able to make direct copies/transcriptions and notes in sketchbooks and work with colour.
Numbers are limited to eight and you can either book a single day, or book both days and work in greater depth. There is a good café/restaurant just across the courtyard.
Duncan will give an introductory tour around the gallery and then students will work from the paintings. Individual guidance will be given. Duncan Wood is a very experienced teacher and has taught at London University, the Royal Academy Schools and is currently a faculty member and tutor at The Prince’s School Of Drawing and exhibits his work with Browse And Darby.
Dates
10th and 17th March 2010
Time
10.30am-12.30pm (Lunch 12.30pm-1.30pm) 1.30pm-4.00pm.
Venue
The Courtauld Institute
Somerset House
150 Strand
Charing Cross
London
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Summer Courses
After last year’s successful three-day courses at the Bankside, we have decided to put on another two courses, outside again, and with the same teachers. In both cases there is a “rainy-day option”, and in each case there is a mix of studying from one of London’s great collections, the V&A and Kenwood House.
In the morning, 10.30 – 12.00, students will look at Constable drawings and sketchbooks in the V & A’s Department of Prints and Drawings. After that we will look at the Museum’s collection of Constable’s wonderful small oil sketches, painted out of doors. Inspired by the Master (we hope) we will then paint and draw near the Serpentine in Hyde Park, a 10 minute walk from the V & A.
Nearest tube South Kensington. There are lockers available at the V&A, so you can store your work safely.
Dates
16th to 18th June 2010
Time
10.30am – 4.00pm
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This course will allow the student to explore the subject in depth, with the expert guidance of past President of the NEAC Thomas Coates and drawing specialist Julie Jackson. The Kenwood House collection on Hampstead Heath is home to one of the great Rembrandt self-portraits, among other excellent paintings, and time will be spent studying in the collection as well as painting and drawing on the Heath. There is safe storage in Kenwood House, so students may leave their equipment overnight, and we have the use of a studio in case of inclement weather.
Dates
5th to 8th July 2010
Time
10.30am – 4.00pm
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Discounts and Concessions
- 10% off the total booking price for Friends of the NEAC
- 10% off the total booking price for full-time students
- 20% off the total booking price of RA Saturday classes if all 5 classes are booked
- 10% off the total booking price if both Bankside Gallery workshops are booked
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Need more information?
Piers Grizzelle
NEAC Drawing School
2 Royal Road,
Teddington
Middx
TW11 0SB
Tel: 020 8287 5208
Email:
Charles Williams ARWS NEAC
Tel: 07730 489052
Directions to the Royal Academy Schools Life Room: from outside the gates of the RA, on Piccadilly, look to your left to Burlington Arcade. Go up Burlington Arcade, and, at its other end, turn right. Turn right again, down the first small road that you come to. Follow that down to the back of the RA, and the RA Schools are behind the first door. They are signposted. Ask at the Porter’s Lodge for the Life Room.
Please do not contact the RA Schools for information. |
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