Sussex Art And Print Studios & Sussex Sculpture Studios
Our Studios offer a diverse range of stimulating, artist-led courses in a friendly and creative environment. Our aim is to encourage students of develop confidence in their own artistic abilities and ideas, helping them start to further their own artistic practice.
Our courses are attended by people of all levels of ability, from independently practicing artists to complete beginners. This allows us to cultivate a unique space that is both innovative and supportive where students harbour a genuine drive to produce quality artworks and realise their individual outcomes. In this way we are able to connect to a wider artistic community through our regular exhibitions and further establish ourselves as a new and exciting centre for artistic practice.
We offer a wide range of courses comprising of both traditional and contemporary approaches. At Sussex Art and Print Studios work is focused in two dimensions and involves painting, drawing and printmaking techniques such as portrait, still life, life drawing, gum arabic transfer printing, etched lino Printing as well as classic collograph and etching processes. We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre. At Sussex Sculpture Studios we continue to cater for all levels of experience and ability in a variety of media including wood, ceramics, stone, ciment fondue, plaster and resin.
Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course. We aim to continue to work with professional artists in Sussex to expand the range and quality of our art courses ensuring that each academic year will differ from the previous with the addition of interesting and original courses encompassing both 2D and 3D art practice.
FOUNDERS:
ANDREW BROWN: studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh specializing in sculpture and gaining an MA in 1999. He has since been an Artist in Residence at a number of schools while pursuing his own work as a professional sculptor working on both large and small, public and private commissions. In the course of his career to date, Andrew has won a number prestigious awards including sculpture prizes at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Glasgow Institutes annual exhibitions.
MARJI TALBOT: studied sculpture, painting, and printmaking at the City and Guilds School of Art in Kennington London and completed an MA in Sequential Art and Design at Brighton University. She has been teaching life drawing and painting in Horsham for several years.
TUTORS:
JO AZANCOT:
RICHARD BALL:
KEN BODDY:
JANINE CREAYE:
GARY GOODMAN: Painter and printmaker Gary Goodman also makes 3-d constructions and artists books. In addition he is a poet, winning several prizes at spoken word performances in the UK, Norway and the USA.
BERNARD LORD:
HAZEL REEVES:
NICOLA ROSE:
THEA TAYLOR has established herself as a sculptor exhibiting her eclectic range of stone and clay in Sussex and the West Country. She began her training in the 60s and has sold her work across the U.K.
DAVID TOLLEY:
HELEN TURNER:
CLIVE VOSPER:
RACHEL WILLIAMS has worked as a Freelance Props Maker and Polystyrene Sculptor for the past 12 years for various companies in theatre, the retail sector and film. She has taught a range of craft and design skills at FE level and delivered a number of craft workshops to groups of all ages and abilities
CLIFF WRIGHT has over 17 years experience as a children's illustrator. His books are published in the UK and abroad. In recent years he is best known for producing two of the Harry Potter book covers.
In addition to his Harry Potter work, Cliff has also produced many successful children's books titles - inspired by his love of animals and the countryside - as well as high profile work for advertising and design clients. He also enjoys introducing everyone, including school children and business clients, to new ways of seeing.Cliff's illustration work and workshops have featured at Art In Action and for The Big Draw campaign at the British Museum. He has made numerous TV and radio appearances, including BBC Breakfast News, CBBC and BBC Southern Counties Radio.