Fine Art: Drawing and Painting

Discover new dimensions in your artistic practice with this experimental drawing course, designed to introduce you to unconventional approaches to drawing and challenge your preconceptions of what a drawing can be. This course will enable you to expand your artistic toolkit and discover fresh approaches to bring your ideas to life on paper. With demonstrations and a contemporary context from your tutor, you will explore ways to alter drawing tools and their handling to transform your outcomes. You will learn to use limitations in creative ways, discovering how self-imposed rules and restrictions can lead to unexpected and exciting results. You will be encouraged to find drawings in the patterns, textures, and marks in the world around you and incorporate these into your artwork. This course is ideal for students of all levels who are eager to build on their artistic skills and explore new avenues of creative expression.

Nicholas Middleton is an artist working primarily in painting with a background print, and interests in photography, film and video. He studied printmaking at Winchester School of Art and has recently completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art. As a painter he has exhibited widely in the UK, as well as abroad, and has been selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize five times, twice winning the Visitors' Choice Prize, as well as prizes for watercolours at the Bankside and Mall Galleries. Recent work has investigated the relationship between photography, film and painting.

If you are on a low wage, unemployed or claim Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) then you can enrol on the course for free. If you are self-employed, you might be able to deduct your enrolment fee from your taxable income.