Visual Arts

Start learning the subtle techniques of drawing and painting children, such as proportions and character. With photographic references provided, you will develop your skills and knowledge to draw your own children at home. Tessa will be on hand to give expert guidance tailored to your choice of media.

Both beginners and intermediates are welcome on this course, in which mixed media will be explored, with particular emphasis on watercolour and pastels. Students will be encouraged to develop their painting and drawing skills at their own pace.

A ten-week introductory course to painting in acrylics. Explore this user friendly medium and lots of general drawing and art techniques too by tackling a different subject each week. Suitable for those new to painting and drawing, as well as the more experienced artist who would like to give acrylics a try.

Materials needed:

A basic set of Acrylic paints and brushes (eg a couple of medium sized round brushes, a couple of flats, and a fine brush for detail).

This exciting workshop explores drawing light, tone and shadows to reveal the form of the figure working with wet compressed charcoal, bleach and wax resist with ink. Suitable for intermediate/advanced.

Please wear old clothes. Basic coloured inks and compressed charcoal provided.

Please bring a roll of lining paper, A2 cartridge paper, charcoal & basic drawing materials. Paper also available to buy from the tutor.

Lunch not included

An introduction or refresher course in life drawing, exploring a variety of observational drawing techniques, investigating line, tone and texture with a professional life model.

Please bring a roll of lining paper, A2 cartridge paper, charcoal & basic drawing materials. Paper also available to buy from the tutor.

TWO SCHOOL HOLIDAY workshops 5th April and 8th April for children aged 6 to 11. Whole days, materials and drinks included £50 or £90 for two days. I teach in my garden studio in Headington. I have many years experience of running workshops for children, since my daughter was 6 - she is now 23! The day will be fun and each child will have something finished to take home. Payment should be made on booking.

To Raise money for The Sobell House Charity, the SOTA Gallery has been asked to sell these One off signed caricatures of Prime Minister David Cameron. These are very unique pictures, and all come with a letter of authenticity. This is for a great cause, so please come and view these pictures, i'm sure they wont be here for long.

Presenting paintings by Peter Ross and sculptures by Dylan Bowen and Debbie Page, this exhibition features work which is reminiscent of themes of reflection, surface and form, with each artist conveying their own definition of those motifs in thought-provoking works which are simultaneously sentimental, expressionistic and delicate.

Reflection: Peter Ross is a Welsh artist living in Oxfordshire. Based on family and archive portraits, his paintings are reminiscent of the reflections of his childhood in South Wales during the 1950s and 60s.