Reflective Art Practice: Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media and Art History: A Study of Female Artists Event

Time:: 19:00 - 21:00
Date:: 21 February 2019 - 11 April 2019
Venue:: Avenue Campus, Highfield Rd, Southampton SO17 1BF

For more information regarding this event, please email Lifelong Learning at lifelonglearning@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

This course examines the theory and practice behind a range of art movements with an illustrated lecture looking at context and incorporating group discussion. This is followed by a practical session in which techniques and ideas are sampled. We run several Reflective Art in Practice courses per year, each of which explores a different topic or genre. Our next course is detailed below:

Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media and Art History: A Study of Female Artists

The Art world has seen a remarkable range of successful female visual artists over the centuries. Their journey, so often a poignant tale of struggle, is inspiring. This 8-week course will examine the achievement of women painters in a diverse range of styles, tracking the story of art from 16th to 21st Century. It will enable students to make practical experiments in a range of genres, including Portraiture, Still Life, Landscape and Abstraction with a series of practical exercises involving drawing materials, paint and collage, using own references.

Tutor: Abi Kremer

Dates: Tuesday 7th May – Tuesday 25th June 2019

Times: 19.00-21.00