On Thursday night The Prince’s Drawing Clubs opened its annual exhibition, with one piece of work by each of the children currently studying at a Drawing Club on display, making this a huge show of over 400 drawings. Our East London gallery was packed with Drawing Clubs students and their families, as well as teachers, … Continue reading »
Marcus Cornish teaches sculpture and drawing at The Prince’s Drawing School and is the tutor of our class ‘Sculpting the Equine Head’ which currently runs on Tuesdays at Kensington Palace Studios. What do you enjoy about teaching at The Prince’s Drawing School? The students. It’s a really nice atmosphere and there’s a sense of community … Continue reading »
Michael Chance has just begun his third term of The Drawing Year postgraduate programme here at The Prince’s Drawing School. The Drawing Year is a one year MA Level programme with a full scholarship for all students, focused on drawing from observation. We asked Michael about his experiences of the course so far and his … Continue reading »
If your child or ward would like to draw with us, you might like to consider enrolling them onto the Saturday Drawing Workshops at The Whitechapel Gallery. The Whitechapel Gallery Students drawing from contemporary art in the gallery Over 10 sessions, students work with professional artists to learn observational drawing skills. Experimenting with a variety … Continue reading »
Over the Easter holiday period, the studios have been a hive of activity as The Prince’s Drawing Clubs team use the space to select, organise, mount, label and frame the enormous number of drawings that will be on display in their annual exhibition. The exhibition opens to the public on 10 May and will feature … Continue reading »
To inspire those preparing applications for tonight’s Drawing Year deadline, we’re posting this essay by Timothy Hyman RA, who has been a tutor at The Prince’s Drawing School for over a decade. Timothy Hyman is a practising painter who teaches on our Drawing the Everyday in the City class, the Drawing Year masterclass Drawing the … Continue reading »
Poppy Chancellor graduated from The Drawing Year in 2010, and is now a successful freelance illustrator and paper-cut artist. We asked Poppy to cast her mind back a few years to her experience of being on The Drawing Year, and tell us what it was like… Hello, Poppy. Can you remember why you decided to apply … Continue reading »
“Every day I awake with the idea, today I must teach myself to draw.” Leon Kossoff Applications for The Drawing Year, a one year MA-level programme with free studio space in Shoreditch and a full scholarship for each of its 25 students, close this Thursday, 28th March 2013. Applicants must submit an online application form, following … Continue reading »
This Easter and Summer Term provide a final opportunity to paint, draw, sculpt and print at Kensington Palace Studios before we move to our new historic West London base at Sydney Close Studios. The School has enjoyed the use of two studio rooms at Kensington Palace since 2008, first as space for our alumni to … Continue reading »
Julian Bell is a senior member of faculty at The Prince’s Drawing School, and along with William Feaver is responsible for our lecture series and Drawing Year critical forums. He has recently returned from New York, where he is currently exhibiting. Whilst in the Big Apple, Julian Bell was asked to give a talk at … Continue reading »
