Location: OVADA, 14 Osney Ln, Oxford OX1 1NJ
Cost: £120 (10% discount for OVADA Associate Members)
Date: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd July
Times: 10am – 4pm each day
Deadline for booking: 4pm, Friday 1st July
Advance booking required
Enquiries: please email engagement@ovada.org.uk

Course description:

Responding to a life model with a range of drawing techniques, the tutor will take students through a journey from sketching to a fully realised painting. On day one, ways of using the body as inspiration will be explored through the use of line, colour and composition. On the second day a composition based on the these drawings will be developed including another layer of experimentation where the imaginary and the unseen will be added to create an image that has a personal meaning.

Tutor: Jan Crombie
Instagram: @crombiejan

Jan moved to East Anglia in 2012 and now lives and works in Norwich. Themes, ideas and processes are revisited across her different medias that includes painting, drawing and ceramic sculptures. Figurative and narrative, her work mixes autobiographical elements with recurring themes around gender issues, politics, and feminist reinventions of myths and legends.

Jan has a post grad teaching certificate from Oxford University and has accumulated a range of teaching experiences since she graduated in Fine Art painting from Goldsmiths. These include teaching painting at Abingdon and Witney college Foundation Course and on the BA Fine Art Course at Brookes University. Jan previously set up and ran the Warehouse Art School Course here at OVADA for 8 years and the Contemporary Painting Course. Currently she is teaching on the Anteros Diploma Course at Anteros in Norwich and mentors emerging artists across the UK.

Materials required to take part in this course:

Acrylic paints
Brushes in a few sizes
Tear off palette
6 sheets of A1 cartridge paper (available to purchase in class for 20p per sheet)
Sketchbook
Charcoal