Painting modern life
Weekend-long practical course
25 April 2020 10.30am - 5.30pm26 April 2020 10.30am - 5.30pm
The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£520. Includes all materials, light refreshments and a wine reception at the end of day one.
Gauguin and the Impressionists
Terms and conditions
This two-day oil painting course inspired by the impressionists will explore the relationship between our everyday lives and surroundings.
“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable”. Charles Baudelaire
This course will explore how artists have portrayed such concepts while working with props and models to create scenes of intimate, and sometimes dramatic domesticity. Creating scenes using theatrical props and staging to paint from has long been a practice for artists, from Thomas Gainsborough RA, to Dame Paula Rego RA.
Working under the guidance of painter and expert tutor, Andy Pankhurst, during this exciting two-day course, participants will paint with oils from a choice of professional models, poses and setups to create their artworks. Participants will explore colour, light, form and composition to emulate works inspired by Gauguin and the Impressionists, Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable
Charles Baudelaire
About the tutor
Andy Pankhurst
Upon graduation from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1992, Andy Pankhurst won first prize in the Windsor and Newton Young Artist’s Award and was represented by leading gallery Anthony Mould Contemporary Ltd.
In the same year, he was awarded the Richard Ford Scholarship by the Royal Academy, with which he travelled to Spain to study the Old Masters in the Prado. He subsequently became a committee member of the award in 2003, nominated by Christopher Le Brun PRA, alongside former Keeper of the Royal Academy, Maurice Cockrill RA. Through the Boise Travel Scholarship, he later lived in the Veneto area of Italy, studying primarily Giotto and the Venetian School.
As a figurative painter, Andy Pankhurst is known as an artist and teacher working from the life model. Andy’s work is represented in various public, corporate and private collections and museums in the UK and USA. Andy currently exhibits with Browse and Darby in London, with his most recent show of paintings and drawings in 2014. He is the co-author with Lucinda Hawksley of the book What Makes Great Art?, published in 2012 by Apple Press.