BA (HONS) PAINTING AND DRAWING

We recognise that many Art students want to specialise from the outset of their degree, focusing the development of skills in one clear discipline area.

This programme is built around the key areas of drawing and painting and will encourage you to experiment with other 2D media (i.e. printmaking). It is supported by technical workshop provision to enable you to achieve the highest quality art production. This route allows you to commit to this discipline area and explore traditional/observational and experimental work and the building of your own supports.  

The painting and drawing programme makes use of excellent specialist facilities that support a wide range of practice. There are specialist workshops introducing you to oil, acrylic and other paint media. We give demonstrations in techniques and processes. Painting & drawing encompasses a variety of skills and techniques enabling you to develop professional approaches to a range of making processes.

We will encourage you to develop an intellectual curiosity, and a sense of adventure, with an ability to deal with the unpredictable.

In the first year, you will initially be set a series of research and drawing based activities that will drive your ideas towards a self-directed practice, greater independence, and by the final year, the attainment of a distinctive vision.

Lectures and seminars along with the peer group critique in the studio, support independent, self-directed work. You will learn to create your own negotiated pattern of work as you move towards an exhibition for your degree show in your final year.

We offer you the opportunity to exhibit your work across campus. A series of selected work is hung in the general public spaces and provides a professional showcase for your work.

Main Studio and Workshop Skills and Activities:

Painting: Oil, acrylic, construction, mixed media, collage.
Printmaking: Etching, screen-printing, relief printing, mono-print and combined media, block print and photo based processes
Drawing: Drawing is seen as an important element in the development and realization of ideas and is the basis of the initial studio work at level one