Saturday, 30 July 2016

Summer School

 I've been away for a few days this week at the annual Oxford Summer School. I found out about it last year but far too late to get on the course I wanted so as soon as the brochure landed on the mat this time around I was booked on Experimental Drawing with Claire Christie Sadler.

Not only is this lady a fantastic artist, she is a great teacher too. There were 12 of us in the group and it has been one of those workshops when everything was 'right'. The summer school was buzzing with all the different classes going on and everyone in the room just got what Claire was encouraging us to do so we cracked on with trying out lots of materials and then did painting, rubbing, ripping, sanding etc to either verbal or musical stimuli. It was huge fun and I will definitely be going again. Such a well organised and diverse event.

Whilst I have been quiet here in the online world I have been busy this summer and now have even more ideas percolating for the next month or so. Aside from a family wedding August is commitment free so I intend to carry on playing and just 'doing the work' to see what evolves at the end of it.