Atelier training

Atelier or Studio training focuses on a high teacher-student ratio circa 1:10 and encourages both teaching and learning through demonstrations. 

Though such studios are set up in France, Italy, Russia, the USA etc., and this method has trained artists since Renaissance times, no such system was in place in the UK.

“Our English painters have no pupils, so the experience they have so laboriously acquired for themselves is of no profit to others.”

John Collier- A Manual of oil Painting.

The Uniqueness

The training given follows that of 19th century techniques using traditional methods to teach the visual language of drawing, painting, art history and the craft-side of painting, i.e. making canvasses and pigments. Students work from plaster casts, the figure, portraits and still-lives. The curriculum stems directly from the leading ateliers of nineteenth-century.