Nurturing Arts

16 Jan – 27 Mar 2013

The Spring term of Nurturing Arts will concentrate on Nature which is full of secrets that can disclose themselves to artistic exploration. Through exploring the natural world students learn to express nature’s hidden gestures through art. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s nature sketches student’s learn gesture, movement, colour and mood from natural phenomena. Techniques: Conte, charcoal, drawing, singing and wet-on-wet water colour painting. Exploring the Language of Form in Clay Modelling with Maria Albiez To begin to learn the language of form we will explore abstract and non-representational shapes. Simple abstract shapes that appeared at the beginning of modern art may be a pointer to the conscious understanding and experience of the essential laws of form. This is what the early modern sculptures were trying to achieve – something that we believe is still fundamentally essential to learn today. Technique: Working with clay we will start with a large two dimensional surface to experience the qualities of convex and concave.