Local Artists Invited To Weekend Painting Residence
22nd July 2011
North Highland Connections Promotes the Third Residency of The Prince's Drawing School
Students and teaching staff from The Prince's Drawing School will again be in residence at the North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, from 1st August, for ten days. This year, as a major development made possible by the additional support of a Highland LEADER grant, the outreach is being expanded to include two days when local artists have an opportunity to take part in the event, and there will be a daily morning class.
On Saturday, 6th August and Sunday, 7th August, local artists, both amateur and professional, are invited to spend a weekend painting in the landscape at Lybster with the postgraduate students and faculty of The Prince's Drawing School including well-known art critic and painter William Feaver.
Participants should meet at North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster at 9.30 or 10am for a discussion of the day's aims before proceeding into the surrounding countryside to paint the landscape. All artists and students will then return to base in the early evening for an informal crit. The structure will be the same on both days with the addition of a pot luck supper on the Sunday evening.
Painters are welcome to attend one or both days and will need to bring their own oil paints, boards/canvases to paint on, brushes, portable easel and stool if required, and wet weather outdoor gear, along with a packed lunch! Meet at Northlands Creative Glass Studio in Lybster.
The Prince's Drawing School is based in Shoreditch in East London and is a cultural partner of North Highland Connections. The Prince's Drawing School is one of The Prince's Charities, a group of not-for-profit organizations of which The Prince of Wales is President. The aim of the Prince's Drawing School is to raise the standard and profile of drawing through teaching and practise. It is one of only a few institutions in the world offering in-depth, quality tuition for those who wish to develop their observational drawing skills, and offers 25 fully fee-paid postgraduate places each year, to ensure that financial circumstances are not a barrier to participation. This year is the third annual North Highlands residency of The Prince's Drawing School's postgraduate students, who will again be based at North Lands Creative Glass centre at Lybster. Some children's workshops will be offered during the week, alongside an exhibition of work produced during the residency - for details please contact Dr Graham Elliott at North Highland Connections : Telephone 0752 107 7053. E-mail: GE[AT]northhighlandconnections.org . There is no charge for participation.
William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer is also a painter and has been the curator of exhibitions ranging from George Cruikshank to the Tate retrospectives of Michael Andrews and Lucian Freud (subject of his most recent book), Constable (Grand Palais Paris 2003). His 'Frank Auerbach' was published in 2009, and his book 'Pitmen Painters' was recently adapted by Lee Hall for an award-laden play.
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