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Course Calendar 2012
Rabley Drawing School specialises in drawing and printmaking courses offering the highest quality ‘Art School’ experience in small groups. Our inspiring tutors are all professional artists with excellent reputations for encouraging the ongoing creative development of artists, art teachers, students and enthusiasts. The well-resourced drawing studio, print room, gallery and art library are set in converted barns surrounded by the beautiful Wiltshire countryside.
 
“The tuition and enthusiasm leaves you determined to continue in the future” JH
“…Inspiring surroundings, people and excellent hospitality” LR
 
 
COURSES BY MONTH:
 
FEBRUARY 2012
 
Printmaking Course
 
COLOUR & ABSTRACTION
MARTYN BREWSTER
Discover both beauty of colour with playfulness of line and surface using Martyn Brewster’s direct silkscreen printing method of overlaying layers of colour, abstractions and marks.
29 Feb – 2 March 2012  (3 day printmaking course)
 
 
MARCH
 
Photo-polymer Etching Printmaking Course
 
INTRODUCTION TO POLYMER PHOTOGRAVURE
MARTYN GRIMMER
Develop your hand and digital drawings and photographs into polymer photogravure etchings. Includes image preparation, plate making, inking and intaglio printing. This is an acid free intaglio printmaking method with many creative possibilities.
30 March – 1 April 2012  (3 day printmaking course)
 
 
APRIL
 
Landscape Drawing Course
 
DRAWING IN THE LANDSCAPE  NEW!
EMMA STIBBON RWA
This course takes you out of the studio into the dramatic open spaces of the Wiltshire downs. The aim is to create through drawing a response to place and environment. There will be an opportunity to develop your drawings into monotype printmaking.
20 – 22 April 2012  (3 day drawing course)
 
 
MAY
 
Drawing Course
 
DRAWN TO NATURE
NIK POLLARD
Get up close and explore the ‘botanical landscape’ through drawing. Using a variety of materials Nik will encourage you to immerse yourself in the ‘field’ using the rich flora and fauna habitat of countryside surrounding the studios.
9 May – 11 May 2012  (3 day drawing course)
 
 
Japanese Woodblock Course with Sara Lee
 
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK  NEW!
SARA LEE
Sara will introduce the history and technique of the Japanese method of woodcut printmaking. Exploring the unique and subltle qualities of the ukiyo-e tradition of preparing and printing blocks and working towards multi-block and colour prints.
25 – 27 May 2012  (3 day printmaking course)
 
 
JUNE
 
Drawing Course with Alan Bond
 
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
ALAN BOND
Taking inspiration from barns and farm structures on site, this course encourages you to develop drawings using sketchbooks and photography without ‘copying’, creating your own perspectives. Alan introduces wet and dry drawing materials to develop rich surfaces in drawings made in the studio.
6 – 8 June 2012  (3 day drawing course)
 
 
JULY
 
Drawing Course
 
DRAWING AND MIXED MEDIA
SUSAN PRESTON
Starting with drawings from observation and exploration of mark making and materials, Sue takes you through drawing towards abstract or figurative painting, from preparing the paper to the handling of a variety of water based media: ink, pastels and paint.
9 – 11 July 2012  (3 day drawing course)
 
 
Experimental Drawing Course with Meryl Ainslie
 
DRAWING SUMMER SCHOOL
MERYL AINSLIE
Summer is a great time to get out and find new ‘ways of seeing’ and seek fresh inspiration. A week of experimental drawing, sketchbooks, a visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. You can also work in tha landscape and develop your ideas in the drawing studio and printroom.
16 – 20 July 2012  (5 day summer school)
 
 
In addition to our course calendar, should you be interested in any of the courses below it may be possible to schedule new dates for them provided there is enough interest. Please contact us to discuss this, register your interest or to organise group bookings.
 
 
Landscape Drawing Course  
APPROACHES TO LANDSCAPE
MARTYN BREWSTER
Martyn Brewster takes you through his ‘Approaches to Landscape’ making studies in the spectacular 700 acres of Wiltshire downland surrounding Rabley. Experiment with a variety of drawing mediums, developing drawings, watercolours and ink and wash.
3 day drawing and painting course
 
drawing and painting course  
TOWARDS ABSTRACTION - PAINTING AND DRAWING
MARTYN BREWSTER
Working from still life in the studio or from the inspiring Wiltshire landscape you will develop a more abstract approach to drawing and painting. Experiment with a variety of drawing and painting mediums, composition and colour development.
3 day drawing and painting course
 
Drawing Course  
DISCOVERING IDEAS THROUGH DRAWING  NEW!
SANDY SYKES
Sandy will encourage you to climb through danger zones where risks mean surprises! Taking you from the making of a sketchbook of ideas, developing playful and experimental drawing methodologies and on towards drawings that communicate your ideas.
3 day drawing course
 
sketchbook workshop  
SKETCHBOOK WORKSHOP
SANDY SYKES MA
An intensive ‘ideas’ sketchbook workshop. Working in response to a cascade of inspiring prompts you will use selected drawn imagery with a range of materials and tools within the space of a sketchbook and develop new creative methods.
1 day drawing workshop
 
Woodcut Printmaking Course  
DRAWN TO WOODCUT   NEW!
SANDY SYKES
Woodcut and print with daring and originality using a variety of relief surfaces. Experience cutting with conventional and unconventional tools, rubbing and printing. Papers from luxurious to ‘throw away’ will enliven your ideas, which will spring naturally from the experimental processes.
3 day woodcut and mixed media course
 
Woodcut Printmaking Course - Landscape  
WOODCUT & LANDSCAPE, DRAWING & PRINTMAKING
EMMA STIBBON MA & MERYL AINSLIE MA
Develop your drawings or other imagery into woodcut printmaking in monochrome and colour.
 
 
Experimental Drawing Course  
EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHBOOK DAY
MERYL AINSLIE
Kick start your ideas with three mini experimental sketchbook projects: A multisensory sketchbook, ‘farm walk sketchbook’ and ‘See through sketchbook’. Each takes an experimental approach to the development of ideas through drawing.
(1 day drawing workshop)
 
Printmaking Workshop  
CARBORUNDUM & DRYPOINT PRINTMAKING
MERYL AINSLIE MA
An Introduction to the rich textures of carborundum and printmaking combined with the immediacy of the drypoint line, investigating combinations of intaglio and relief printmaking.
Tuesday 5 July 2011 (1 day printmaking workshop)
 
Ink Drawing Art Course  
DRAWING AND INK WORKSHOP
KERRY PHIPPEN
Kerry brings her original perspective to this methods and materials workshop using ideas from your sketchbook and drawings with ink, brush and more! A studio based day discovering the beauty and infinite possibilities of using brush and ink.
(1 day workshop)
 
Drawing Course  
LANDMARKS
TIM HARRISON
Drawing on location and in the studios you will respond to an ancient Wiltshire landscape imbued with geological and cultural history where a White Horse and Iron Age Fort take in panoramic views.
2 day drawing course
 
Life Drawing Course with Sue Preston  
FULL OF LIFE
SUE PRESTON
You will respond to a variety of life models, music and the movement of the figure in space.
 
 
Drawing Course with Helen Barff  
DRAWING WITH THE SENSES - 1 DAY WORKSHOP
HELEN BARFF
Found objects are explored through a variety of drawing processes,
using a multi-sensory approach.
 
 
Experimental Drawing Course with Meryl Ainslie  
EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING
MERYL AINSLIE
Explore diverse drawing methods and materials and the ‘space between’ images using film and walkscapes as a starting point.
 
 
Sketchbook Journaling Course with Jill Carter  
THE ART OF JOURNALING - 1 DAY WORKSHOP
JILL CARTER
One day workshop. An odyssey of text, drawing and photography.
 
 
Drawing Course with Alan Bond  
DRAWING WITH LIGHT AND SPACE
ALAN BOND
This course encourages the development of drawings using data without ‘copying’, making and developing drawings in the studio and on site.
 
 
Drawing Course  
JOURNEYLINES  NEW!
RAY WARD
Investigate the scroll and create a continuous sketchbook with Ray Ward on a fantastic journey. Working from literature, touch and sound delve into a hidden world of shape, word and pattern to create a visual voyage into the unknown.
1 day drawing workshop
 
Sculptural Drawing Workshop  
GO LARGE - 1 DAY WORKSHOP
JULIEANN WORRALL-HOOD
Sculptural Drawing workout. Capture the movement and the essence of the subject in 3D.
 
 
drawing and sculpture course  
DRAWN TO SCULPTURE 2D and 3D  NEW!
JULIEANN WORRALL-HOOD
Capture the movement and character of our farm animals and wildlife. Working from life sketches, develop your ideas into mixed media, small wire 3D maquettes and on to more resolved pieces incorporating wire, found and recycled materials.
3 day drawing and sculpture course
 
 
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