Drawing is the same as speaking, the only difference being that lines, dots, squiggles and other marks replace words.

It is both our principal method of visual description, and the most immediate indication of our feelings in relation to the subject. Not just a building block to self expression in other media, drawing is an enchanted world of visual discovery, a mesmerising process that carries our ideas and feelings on a revelatory journey. Using some of the techniques that have been tried and tested by actors, singers and other performers, students will be given the confidence to let go of preconception and embrace a way of drawing that reveals as much about what they feel as what they see. Guided through a number of varied approaches to drawing and re-introduced to a variety of different materials from graphite and charcoal to ink and paint, students who will advance the most on this course will revel in the unfamiliar, adopt a not too serious attitude and as a result take the greatest risks.

This course presents creative avenues that artists can journey through in order to create work that is more textural, more poetic and more emotionally descriptive.