The aim of this course is to give students the confidence and organisational ability to express themselves with the greatest possible degree of freedom. By working away from the subject students will need to reinvent it by reaching into the unconscious and letting go of the impediments that restrict us from expressing what we really feel. For experienced painters that have never attempted to paint away from the subject, this course will be truly revelatory.
Too often artists fall into the trap of being in awe of what they are painting and are too concerned with the literal colour and shape
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of the motif. By painting in front of the subject there can be a tendency for artists to rob themselves of the delight one can experience in revelling in the space between direct observation and pure abstraction. In this gap one can enjoy the materiality of paint, immerse oneself in the act of painting and through the enjoyment of the process produce works that sing and dance with lyrical rendering. It is at this point that the painting process stops being one of reportage and documentation and becomes one about making a painting that is other-worldly and often inadvertently, an unselfconscious portrait of the artist's inner self.
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