Individual Mentor Programme

Create a transition to a new phase of artistic and creative practice.
Who is this program designed for ?

• The established artist needing further direction.
• The serious amateur wanting to make the next step.

• Someone coming back to art making after a long interval of time.
• Graduates of art school who have “slipped through the system.”
• Those who have an irregular studio practice.
• Or if you are just interested in: art, painting, draftsmanship, textiles, design, 
• Suitable for medium levels of ability.

The Goals

• Gain confidence.
• Develop clear strategies.

• Develop the means to examine and define your unique skills.
• Develop your sense of place and purpose as an artist.
• Removing negative attitudes to your practice.
• Removing obstacles to motivation.
• Build a greater understanding of contemporary art.
• Build a better and improved, consistent studio practice.
• Creating opportunities for yourself and your work.
• Creative support and encouragement.
• Develop a clear understanding of the practical and formal aspects of art making.

Details About the Program

This is an opportunity to become immersed in painting and forge your own artistic direction and confidence and develop your unique intuitive skills.
This programme has developed over a long period of time and came out of a need to question the value and validity of the conventional art school system.
The programme provides everyone interested in and working in painting and art making with the intellectual and practical tools to develop their skills.

David Ryan has worked with thousands of students, and with his own discoveries as an artist and art educator it has resulted in this open-ended method to inspire, encourage and develop each student's individual aims.
The greater learning experience realized in this programme comes about through a hands on journey of discovery based around your work.

The crux of the Studio Practice Mentoring Program is to get you immediately started with a regular studio practice and to identify the thought patterns and habits that have been standing in our way, whether this is a lack of confidence, lack of time or missing skill sets.
This Program allows you as a participant to discover for yourself the secrets and magic of art making and your relationship to it and how and why we humans respond to it.
Modeled on a “studio practice style” of teaching with a strong practical and theory based guide to the formal aspects of art making and the medium of painting.

• Exploring guides to identifying individual aims.
• Developing concepts.
• Sourcing images, developing your images and bringing a work to completion.
• Establishing new methods of work practice.
• Gain the necessary set of skills relating to spatial awareness, shape and direction, colour direction, colour and tonal space, traditional compositional structure and a myriad of traditional formal skills.
• Develop the experience of the everyday as visually extraordinary and how to translate this into a clearly defined art work.
• Improving insight and perception.
• The nature of representation.
• Explore ways to gain better observational skills.
• Researching and brainstorming ideas.
• Develop the ability for critical analysis.
• Basic critical theory.
• Understanding the creative process and procedures.
• Commitment to practice.
• Strategies to overcoming inspiration blocks.
• Developing ideas and concepts to create a body of work.
• Organising time, priorities, studios and workspaces.
• Individual tutoring.
• Demonstrations and techniques.
• Discussion and critical analysis.

One to One  Programme

The Studio Practice Mentoring Program is an indivudally designed program.   David visits you in your studio and together you work out a program to meet your individual needs.

Fees are calculated on an hourly rate and there is a small travel charge for artists based outside of Nelson.
  

For further details
contact Jo Kinross on
03 5466791 or
email  jokin@ xtra.co.nz


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