Neil Pittaway began the workshop with introductions and then a quick continuous line drawing exercise. He followed this with a demonstration - creating textures and surfaces using different drawing media. Students then prepared an abstract surface using these techniques and took the drawings out onto The Mall where they drew Admiralty Arch - drawing the subject in 20 lines. After this they started another drawing of the same subject using construction lines and angles...
Charles Williams' work is very like short stories. He tries to cram everything he is thinking about, other paintings old and new, newspaper stories, what he saw on his holidays or when he last went to the shops into each painting. We spoke to Charles who told us more about the story behind these stories . . .
Our 2017 Annual Exhibition opens to the public on 16 June at Mall Galleries in London, but you can preview over 300 selected works online now. All works are for sale, so this is your chance to get in first! Preview exhibition.