Gallery spaces at Fort Gorgast, the building that is part of Forte Cultura.
Inside the studio
Here’s some pictures from both my studio in the countryside and from atelier training at the Art Academy in Stroud (Gloucestershire).
Gallery spaces at Fort Gorgast, the building that is part of Forte Cultura.
Here’s some pictures from both my studio in the countryside and from atelier training at the Art Academy in Stroud (Gloucestershire).
Nature studies. Exercises in observation, looking for the light, for volumes, for shapes, structures and shifts of plane. Both meditative and exhausting.
In May 2024, I again had the immense pleasure of participating in the open ateliers weekend at Fort Gorgast.
When you go to the National Gallery, you cannot miss Whistlejacket. The life-size portrait of a racehorse owned by the Marquess of Rockingham is a daring painting by George Stubbs.
From the pictures above, which one would you prefer? The classical portrait rarely depicts its model smiling.
While the last paintings are still being framed, I am already very much looking forward to the opening on 20 May.
From my archives: an essay about Czechoslovakia one year after the fall of the communist regime, a country caught between revolution and an impossible restauration.
The brain is conservative. It tends to have set ideas about the human body that get into your way when drawing with live models. Models often hold poses for only three to ten minutes. The classes are designed to get you out of your comfort zone. No time to think about proportions. You have to trust your eyes, and your hand. Either you get it, or you don’t.