Current teaching activities at Spencer Street Studio
This year I will be teaching blocks of 8 to 12 weeks. Blocks will consist of open sessions where people under guidance can work on their own themes and so develop their own personal artistic ideas.
Class Times
Wednesday Mornings 9.30am - 12.30 and 1pm - 4pm
One day workshops 9.30am - 4.30pm throughout the year.
Block 1
Wednesday mornings 9.30am - 1pm
Starts 11th January 2012 and will run for 11 weeks.
This will be an open session block.
Fee: R1320
information about the studios anda map can be found at www.spencerstreetstudio.com
Payment
Please note fees for each block must be paid for prior to the beginning of each block.
There will be a cost of R120 per session. Therefore an 8 week session is R920 and a 10 week session is R1200.
Participants must provide all their materials.
Occasionally specific material will be provided and charged accordingly.
Places are limited to 10 per session and 12 on full day workshops.
People wishing to join classes There is an option to make up sessions missed, but not carried over to another block.
One day work shops must be registered for seperately and are not included. The studio is equipped with easels boards and tables, tea & coffee making facilities.
For further information contact me on 0823633046 or e-mail me at paul@spencerstreetstudio.com
Other teaching activities
University of Cape Town Summer School programmes
I am currently working with the Truworths Social Development Trust, teaching township children.
My ideas around teaching
For a number of years, I worked in a commercial art studio alongside a talented group of artists. The exchange of knowledge and practical techniques across all mediums has given me a wide base of skills to use in my own work and to pass on to others.
Combined with my more formal training at art school, I try to engage students in exploring both techniques and intellectual ideas about the images they create.
My experience of students in art classes has been one of frustration and unfinished work. I try to help students to fully realise their ideas.
I believe that even with a limited skills base, students can create interesting work by engaging their intellect with the learning process.
Most people that I have taught seem to think that they need to learn to draw before they can create something they might consider a finished art work.
Learning to draw is a discipline that takes many hours of dedication, trial and error, exploring different techniques. I was taught to draw in a very logical and practical manner, using the point and line technique. This has underpinned everything that I have done as an artist. From time to time, I run a structured drawing programme based on this technique. Anyone interested in finding out more can contact me at the above address.
What I try to do as a teacher is to enable students to combine learning skills with developing ideas and to make finished pieces of work.
