We’ve just returned from running our Pop Up Drawing Studio at this year’s Hay Festival, where an amazing number of festival goers queued up to draw with us every day, come rain or shine. Artists aged 8-80 were tutored by our Drawing Year alumni Perienne Christian, Constanza Dessain, Jonathan Farr and Clara Drummond, who did a wonderful job and adapted to the changing weather with good humour … Continue reading
Drawing Year alumnus Jonathan Farr is the 2013-14 Sir Denis Mahon Scholar. He graduated with a BA in Sculpture from the Slade in 1997, and then lived and worked as an English language teacher, magazine illustrator and children’s book author and illustrator in Barcelona and Mexico City until 2009 before applying to The Prince’s Drawing School’s Drawing Year … Continue reading
2013 was a successful year for our Drawing Year students, alumni and tutors, with The Prince’s Drawing School featuring heavily in the art world’s most prestigious awards. Lovelock (I) by Catherine Story Drawing Year alumnus Catherine Story was selected as one of just four painters to exhibit in Tate’s Painting Now show last year, while four Drawing Year alumni … Continue reading
Printmaker and painter Sam Marshall was a Drawing Year student from 2006-7. In the run-up to the Drawing Year 2014-15 application deadline we share her story about studying at The Prince’s Drawing School and how it affected her practice in the long-term… I studied Fine Art in the 1990’s before coming to The Prince’s Drawing … Continue reading
Drawing Year student Kristian Fletcher recently received the student award at one of the most hotly contested competitions for contemporary artists, the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Kristian graduated from the University of the West of England in 2012 with a BA in drawing. Prior to this he had worked as a scaffolder in London. He joined … Continue reading
This summer London has played host to an array of interesting exhibitions. As many galleries now prepare to open new exhibitions for the autumn season there are several offerings well worth seeing as their closing dates approach. L.S. Lowry, Ancoats Hospital Outpatients’ Hall 1952, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester © The estate … Continue reading
If you’re going along to the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery this summer, keep an eye out for work by our faculty and alumni. This year our tutor Julie Held is exhibiting a portrait of her father, and there’s a nice mention of her painting in the Independent here. (She’ll be … Continue reading
Last week 37 children from St Alphege School in Solihull were invited to spend the day at Highgrove, The Prince of Wales’ official residence in Gloucestershire. They were the winners of Mygrove, The Prince’s online gardening competition for schools. Two of our Drawing Year alumni, now tutors on The Prince’s Drawing Clubs, went along to Highgrove … Continue reading
Every year for the past 30 years Flowers Gallery has hosted a rotating exhibition of up-and-coming contemporary artists, Artist of the Day, over two weeks. Each artist is selected by an established artist for a one-person show for one day only. With one generation highlighting the emerging work of the next, the curatorial role is … Continue reading
Last summer several of our students, alumni and tutors were invited to draw the Queen’s Jubilee Pageant from the roof of the City of London School, situated on the north bank of the river Thames directly opposite Tate Modern. Braving wind, rain and cold, the artists sketched for several hours recording the hundreds of passing boats taking … Continue reading
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