1-day life drawing workshop with Charles Williams NEAC RWS CertRAS

Charles Williams RWS NEAC CertRAS leads a life-class, concentrating on the tension between detail and the outline. Looking at the whole figure, the class will focus on determining the level of visual information needed in describing and representing form.

Masks must be worn at all times by students, and attention paid to social distance and the maintenance of hygiene. The class will have a maximum of eight participants.

About your tutor: Charles is a painter, writer, lecturer and currently Faculty Scholar at Canterbury Christ Church University, studying for a PhD (Practise As Research). He exhibits his work widely, in London, Europe and the USA. Formerly Programme Leader of the Fine Art degree programme at Canterbury Christ Church University, he is active in research both in and outside the University and he leads the cross-faculty Research Group ‘Drawing Edges’. He combines his academic career with a busy exhibition and publication schedule, exhibiting at the Studio 1.1 Galley in Redchurch Street, London, and was recently invited to take part in the biennial Susak Expo. He wrote the books ‘Basic Drawing’ (2011) and 'Basic Watercolour’ (2014), easy-going manuals of technique, and is also a writer for ‘The Artist’ magazine, where he contributes an occasional ‘musings’ column on various art world issues, and has written articles for ’Turps Banana’ on Annibale Carracci and Domenico Tiepolo.