Contemporary Painting: Developing your Practice

This advanced, project-based painting course is designed to support students in creating ambitious, conceptually driven work using both photographic reference and direct observation.
You’ll explore how to develop paintings from multiple sources while resolving compositional and pictorial challenges in the studio. With a focus on contemporary practice, you’ll research and discuss the work of living artists, examining their methods and processes to inform your own. The course centres on two sustained projects, encouraging thoughtful planning, experimentation, and personal narrative development. Some independent research, writing and informal presentation will be required.

Wednesday

22 April - 8 July / 10.00am – 4.00pm

12 weeks / No half term break

ABOUT THE TUTOR:

Sarah Jane Moon is a painter who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her work explores identity, gender and connection to place. Physically, her paintings are large, gestural and suffused with a love of colour, surface and her chosen medium: oil paint.

She has exhibited widely, including with the National Portrait Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. A recipient of the Arts Charitable Trust Award, the Bulldog Bursary for Portraiture, her work has consistently been recognised for its ambition and singularity. It has also been featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Wallpaper*, Studio International and other publications.

Moon is based in the UK, although was raised in New Zealand and has lived in Japan, Malaysia and Australia. She has postgraduate qualifications in Art Theory, Curatorial Practice and Portraiture. In the UK, Moon works in London and Sussex and when in New Zealand she paints in the Bay of Plenty.

@sarah_jane_moon

Painting above by Sarah Jane Moon (detail)