| 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
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| FEBRUARY 2012 |
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| COLOUR & ABSTRACTION |
| MARTYN BREWSTER |
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| 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) |
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| MARCH |
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| INTRODUCTION TO POLYMER PHOTOGRAVURE |
| MARTYN GRIMMER |
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| 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) |
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| DRAWING IN THE LANDSCAPE NEW! |
| EMMA STIBBON RWA |
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| 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) |
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| DRAWN TO NATURE |
| NIK POLLARD |
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| 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) |
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| JAPANESE WOODBLOCK NEW! |
| SARA LEE |
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| 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) |
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| JUNE |
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| ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE |
| ALAN BOND |
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| 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) |
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| JULY |
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| DRAWING AND MIXED MEDIA |
| SUSAN PRESTON |
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| 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) |
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| DRAWING SUMMER SCHOOL |
| MERYL AINSLIE |
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| 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) |
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| 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. |
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| APPROACHES TO LANDSCAPE |
| MARTYN BREWSTER |
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| 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 |
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| TOWARDS ABSTRACTION - PAINTING AND DRAWING |
| MARTYN BREWSTER |
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| 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 |
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| DISCOVERING IDEAS THROUGH DRAWING NEW! |
| SANDY SYKES |
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| 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 |
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| SKETCHBOOK WORKSHOP |
| SANDY SYKES MA |
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| 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 |
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| DRAWN TO WOODCUT NEW! |
| SANDY SYKES |
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| 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 |
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| WOODCUT & LANDSCAPE, DRAWING & PRINTMAKING |
| EMMA STIBBON MA & MERYL AINSLIE MA |
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| Develop your drawings or other imagery into woodcut printmaking in monochrome and colour. |
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| EXPERIMENTAL SKETCHBOOK DAY |
| MERYL AINSLIE |
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| 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. |
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| CARBORUNDUM & DRYPOINT PRINTMAKING |
| MERYL AINSLIE MA |
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| 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) |
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| DRAWING AND INK WORKSHOP |
| KERRY PHIPPEN |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| You will respond to a variety of life models, music and the movement of the figure in space. |
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| DRAWING WITH THE SENSES - 1 DAY WORKSHOP |
| HELEN BARFF |
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Found objects are explored through a variety of drawing processes,
using a multi-sensory approach. |
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| EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING |
| MERYL AINSLIE |
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| Explore diverse drawing methods and materials and the ‘space between’ images using film and walkscapes as a starting point. |
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| THE ART OF JOURNALING - 1 DAY WORKSHOP |
| JILL CARTER |
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| One day workshop. An odyssey of text, drawing and photography. |
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| DRAWING WITH LIGHT AND SPACE |
| ALAN BOND |
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| This course encourages the development of drawings using data without ‘copying’, making and developing drawings in the studio and on site. |
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| JOURNEYLINES NEW! |
| RAY WARD |
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| 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 |
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| GO LARGE - 1 DAY WORKSHOP |
| JULIEANN WORRALL-HOOD |
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| Sculptural Drawing workout. Capture the movement and the essence of the subject in 3D. |
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| DRAWN TO SCULPTURE 2D and 3D NEW! |
| JULIEANN WORRALL-HOOD |
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| 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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