This is a practical course exploring the relationship between abstraction and representation in painting. You will be encouraged to develop your technical skills with your chosen media and to extend your responses to your subject matter whilst exploring the processes of abstraction. Exercises may invite you to work in a particular way, with a specified approach or materials, or both. You will also be introduced to different contemporary painters and their working methods, to explore a range of possible strategies you might wish to employ in your own work. Through group discussions and individual tutorials, you will be encouraged to extend your own thinking about abstraction and think critically about your own painting practice in the wider context of contemporary painting.
Steve Humble (London highamhall.com/steve-humble)

Residential: £575 Non-residential: £400 (incl. field trips)